IGA Nephropathy

That’s what Ive got.  Its quite common, and often goes undiagnosed.  I might well not have found out if I had not changed doctors and had a routine urine test.

Its also called Berger’s Disease, and is contracted following throat or chest infections.  I may well have started following a streptococcal throat infection I have in early 2000 or 2001 (cant remember).  I was diagnosed in Feb 2002 following a biopsy.  I have been treated with increasing amounts of blood pressure medication since that time, initially at Bradford St Luke’s (where I was born!) but more recently locally.

My medication is currently:

Doxazosin (as Mesilate) 4 mg x 1per day
Soduim BiCarbonate 500mg x 4 per day
Lisinopril 20mg x4 per day
Valsartan 160mg x 2 per day
AlfaCalcidol 500ng x 1 per day
Viazem XL 180mg x 1 per day

 

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