Re: Normal Urinary Output?

From: dorothy (dmmoran_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: 27 Sep 2004 18:30:39 -0700

Dr. C. wrote:
>
> There is water in most foods so that one would now conclude that your
> urine output is abnormally low.
>
>
> Servant to the humblest person in the universe,
>
> Andrew
 
Well my daily meals consist of protein powder mixed with very little
water, and of course 6 egg whites, 2 egg yolks - IOW not much added
water there.

I know you are a cardio doc, so if these are not suitable feel free to
tell me to buzz off -- my serum creatinine level is a steady 0.7, yet
my BUN and BUN/creat ratio are slightly elevated (much less elevated
in last week's blood test than they were in May). I feel like I am
holding a good deal of fluid around my mid-section, yet the rings on
my pinkies are looser than ever. My feet are not even puffy. Being an
ex-anorectic I have my "trusty" barometers of weight gain, and one of
the first places I can tell I've gained weight is when my rings get
tight. It's like my hands are dehydrated, and other parts are holding
water. I took Aquaban, potassium, and dandelion (diuretics) just to
see if I'd lose any of the seeming water, but nothing -- even seems
like I "went" less since using them. A nutritionist at a health food
store recently told me you do not hold water in spots (excepting
muscle injuries), so is it very odd that my abdomen is seems water
logged, yet the BUN level is way lower now than 3 mos. back when I did
not feel water logged at all???? Is it possible to have kidney
troubles with a perfectly fine creatine level, and no other blood test
results pointing to anything wrong???

The blood test results were almost perfect, excepting a TSH of 8.006.
My T3 and T4 are normal. I think all the iodized salt could've
elevated the TSH. It has always been normal till this test.

Thanks!!!

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