So ive been very happy overall lately, racing the car again, work paying well, working hard as shit but happy, house is great, tried to have a kid and it didnt have a heartbeat and now we have been trying a lot, no luck yet. Then health.... so ive always had blood and protein in the urine, my mom being a freak she was always on top of that but for the life of me i cant remember why i ignored it all the time.
Recently i started looking into it, labs show i still have blood and protein in the urine, high cholesterol. We thought it was kidney stones.... no stones, heart looks good, so yeah its been like 10 years ive had this shit. Well today read my results ahead of the appointment, i have 850 albumin/creat ration, everywhere i read its kidney disease, some. Life insurance was rejected when they saw the past results so that kind of opened my eyes.
I got my appointment on the 13th, so in the meanwhile im just freaking out and sad that this might turn out to be a bad thing. So i just wanted to come around and say hi, vent, write and hope. Sucks that we as teens, young adults dont really pay too much attention to health, life is so fast at that time that it just gets missed.
Wish you the best dude. Yeah that's why I've always excercise and try to eat properly whilst also indulging to "forbidden" foods. As Pythagoras said: all in good measure is a virtue.
A friend of mine has a rare kidney disease, pissing blood and stones in his urine, that's the worst case scenario, may need a transplant down the line.
My mother, who is in her early 80s, has had 420 albumin/creatinin ratio for many years.
She has only one functioning kidney, another is shrunk due to some inflammation in her youth. She is one of those people who hate going to the doctor's.
One bright day I forced her to go to nephrolog. The doc prescribed her Valsartan 80 mg.
It is a blood pressure lowering drug, but its side effect somehow reduces that albumin\creatinin ratio. Its another side effect is increased Potassium level.
After 2 years of taking it the albumin\creatinin ratio has returned to norma ( 28 ) albeit high limit of it.
Potassium and blood pressure are also within norma.
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At least in the US it isnt. They need to know if your healthy or not on if/how much coverage they offer.
Big difference between say, a healthy 50yo man. And one that has had cancer 4 times, a history of blood pressure and diabetes, and 3 heart attacks.
They need to know how long they can collect on the premium to ratio how much coverage they can offer. Life insurance is a game of averages of a bell curve: What is the average premium intake across all members, vs rate of death of them, to work out how much we can pay out and still have operating income and profit.
Does it suck for sick people looking to take care of after life expenses? Yea, but how it works here at least.
Well i dont think im sterile since we had that first pregnancy like immediately after stopping the pills, but now i guess my balls got depressed or something 🤣
Yeah another shock news for me, always catches me off guard for a few days, good thing is my labs dont show the usual damage side effects in the blood, but im pissing a lot of signs of kidney damage.
Nah biopsy to finally know where i stand, im positive and willing to change diet and exercise. Just sucks that i let this go on for so long. Damn
For lifr insurance they do request permission to go in etc, at least i think i consented, hence how they calculated my risk
At least its not something terminal, i do understand kidney diseases dont go away so that was new to me, nah, onwards, at least im more at ease today
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