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High creatinine after treatment finished
I finished treatment 9 weeks ago (35 rad, 2 chemo-cisplatin). I didn't get the 3rd chemo due to the high creatinine. My creatinine was last measured at 1.92 and has been around that level since treatment ended. Has anyone had high creatinine this long after treatment ended and did it ever get better? If it got better, how long did it take to get there?
I am scheduled to see a kidney doctor next week.
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I was on carbol-taxol for
I was on carbol-taxol for chemo. My creatine dropped to about 0.7 during treatment, recovered to normal range about 1 month post. The Kaiser app shows 0.8 to 1.5 as the normal range. Generally all my blood chem was trashed, it took a couple of months to recover. I'm not sure on this, but I think mine dropped because I was on a blood thinner during week 5. Prior to going on that, my creatine had climbed but was still in normal range.
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Probably not happy news, it
Probably not happy news, it certainly wasn't for me, but recovery will probably take about a year. I wanted and expected faster. At two years most things are back to normal on the blood chem side of things, my platelets recovered slowly and were a concern up thru 6 months post. I was probably 95% functional by six months, today some drymouth and tenderness on my neck in the burn area. Both of those come and go. Probably my most annoying thing was my nose would periodically spontaneously start running. I could be doing anything or nothing and suddenly be dripping from my nose. That has mostly stopped, at least during social interactions.
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I have recovered pretty wellAnotherSurvivor said:Probably not happy news, it
Probably not happy news, it certainly wasn't for me, but recovery will probably take about a year. I wanted and expected faster. At two years most things are back to normal on the blood chem side of things, my platelets recovered slowly and were a concern up thru 6 months post. I was probably 95% functional by six months, today some drymouth and tenderness on my neck in the burn area. Both of those come and go. Probably my most annoying thing was my nose would periodically spontaneously start running. I could be doing anything or nothing and suddenly be dripping from my nose. That has mostly stopped, at least during social interactions.
I have recovered pretty well in almost every other way. I would like to hear if anyone else was in a similar situation and their creatinine numbers eventually came back to normal.
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