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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They will run a complete blood count because they always do, but mine are always normal. Hemoglobin may be low (mine has slid to the very low end of normal when it was formerly in the middle of the range.

The metabolic panel run should be comprehensive, not basic. On this, you are looking for low total protein and low albumin. Fasting should make no difference to these results. Although I have kidney disease, my creatinine is always normal, but I tend to have elevated BUN and thus a high BUN/creatinine ratio. EGFR is something they look for in kidney disease; in young healthy people it is way over 100, mine is in the high 80s but that's good for my age even if I didn't have kidney disease. EGFR is not hugely reliable because factors like dehydration can have a big effect.

On the urinalysis, you are looking for a positive result for protein. Any amount of protein in the urine requires further investigation. Mine is 3+ (my first line medication appears to have done nothing, so I will have go to another option).[/quote]

Not too low of an albumin level. In the normal range. I'm the poster with the father who had extensive generalized swelling and his albumin was at 25, which points to severe malnutrition. Like the starving kids in Somalia. It was the first emergency they treated in hospital.

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