.Tuesday Fresenius pulled blood to ascertain how my lab markers were doing. The results came back Wednesday roughly 24 hours after the draw. Pretty nice turnaround. I am notified by email when they are available and view them through the Fresenius Patient Hub.
As usual, we have some good news and some not so good news. First the latter: My Phosphorus reading went up. This is is spite of my doubling the amount of Velphoro (Velphoro acts as a potent phosphorus binder, effectively binding to dietary phosphorus in the gastrointestinal tract and preventing its absorption into the bloodstream.) See the graphic below: My dialysis team will give me grief over this!
Now the good: My A1c came in at 5.9. I work very hard to keep my diabetes under control and this is the result. Having instant access to what my glucose levels are doing via my Abbott Libre 3 CGM is also a large, positive contributing factor. See the graph below:
The last lab reading is one that I’m scratching my head over and that’s my last Creatinine reading of 9.07, the lowest its been since forever. You can view this trend in the graph below. Using this value for Creatinine, 85 years of age (nearest birthday) and Gender Male in my CKD-EPI app yields a eGFR of 5. This is not disturbing in that it is an established fact that I have kidney failure.
Finally, I am embedding below the full PDF of my labs. I am doing this so interested parties may make informed comparisons independently and also so all may view what’s involved in dialysis labs.
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