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Actually, the new diabetes med, glipizide, seems to be keeping my blood sugar under better control. Maybe I'll get my A1c down a bit for a change.View Thread

One food that I have learned to love is yogurt..but only if it's Yoplait, with the fruits in it and such. Those I eat several times a week...they actually work well to satisfy a sweet tooth for me.View Thread

Still no word today on the latest tests...thought it was too soon to hear, but I was hoping.... I guess it's still a waiting game for now.View Thread

Glad to hear your kidneys rebounded and kept you off dialysis. I am hoping for something along the same lines, though I dont know if it will happen or not. I know my dad has been at stage 3 for 6 years now, and holding steady, so it could be that not getting better, but not getting worse keeps me off dialysis.
I do try to be vigilant with the meds though. It seems that what works for one condition can be bad for another a lot of the time, and often it seems a risk to try to fix one problem because it might make another one worse. I ask questions about things like that, and decide if it is an acceptable risk or not, with my doctor's help.
Most of the t ime, I don't have any interactions or side effects. This kidney thing though, nearly caused a panic. I had just had some labs done and got a phone call from the office to stop the meds immediately and for no reason what so ever to miss my next appointment because we had to talk about my kidneys. Seemed the language was a little strong and I had a week and a half to imagine every worst case scenario out there before I got to see the doc again.
I still worry about it, even though I dont have all the answers yet. For now, I'm just trying to keep the panic at bay with knowledge, until I know exactly what it is I have to deal with.View Thread

At any rate, I've been doing more reading and I am developing a list of questions for my next visit. So far, I have had one additional visit since the problem was found, and it was decided then to do the last round of tests. He did say that he needed to consider sending me to a nephrologist, and that dialysis would need to be discussed "probably soon" but that he would wait on the results of this last round of tests to decide.
I probably should have asked more questions the last time I saw him, but I was a bit blown away by it all and just couldn't think of any. But, I'll have my list next time and I am confident he will take the time to give me answers, he always has before.View Thread

Anyway....I was just wondering if anyone else has had kidney failure blamed on metformin or diclofenac. My dad has stage 3, his was blamed on Celebrex and Metformin. I don't know whether to think the meds are to blame or if it is because of the diabetes, or if it even really matters why....it is what it is and will have to be dealt with, either way.View Thread
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