Well, last week I went to my former primary care physician and because I haven't had the standard blood tests in a long time from him (and even though on January 18 I'm going to Cornell and have all these same blood tests, ekg, EVERYTHING done for my two year checkup, we still did the blood test thing.

Got the results in the mail today.

The only things that kicked out of range are as follows:

UREA NITROGEN 28 Range is 7 - 25 mg/dL
FYI, my creatinine was 1.0 which seems to be in range.

BUN/CREATININE RATIO........ 28.0 Range is 6.0 - 25.0

URIC ACID .........7.7 Range is 1.7 - 7.5 mg d/L

Oh, my total cholesterol is 161, HDL IS 48, LDL is 93,
CHOLESTEROL/HDL RATIO IS 3.4

Triglycerides were 98

HEMOBLOBIN A1C was 6.8 (used to be 9.0 when I first went to Cornell)

So all in all, everything is okay EXCEPT FOR THIS UREA, NITROGEN AND URIC ACID THING..
I looked this up on the internet and it says many things can contribute to kidney disease (which I don't, as far as I know have). I urinate quite fine, thank you very much. This means I have protein in my kidneys right?
I do have diabetes for 18 years. I don't eat any red meat (said somethint about GOUT in the article)., never been diagnosed with that.

Also, in all three things which I had out of range it said that thiazide can contribute to a high reading. Other meds can do the same.

Now I am on Zestoretic 20/25 (for over a year now). This is a high blood pressure pill combined with a water pill right?

So why do I have a high count in these three things?

Tomorrow I'm taking him to see Dr. Fred about his foot so if the guy has time (He's going to be my new primary care physician), I'll just show him this and say "do you want me to make an appointment sooner than later or do we wait for the full workup at Cornell"? KNowing him (because I already told him about Cornell, he'll say, "do the Cornell thing and then we'll see the results".

My question is "From these results, am I getting kidney disease,? (I eat and drink water appropriately), I exercise (not to excess) I don't eat red meat) so can it be that because I have diabetes for 18 years, this is what happens? I basically live on fish and grilled chicken. I once in a while (like last night and last week) had scallops and shrimps, but mainly I like salmon.
I'll keep on drinking water, that much I can do!!!

Thanks for any answers.

Melody