@zenvelo Well, at least your doctor’s office is competent and tested you and called you. I had to ask for the test (I’m seen as an annoying patient I’m sure) and when it came back low no one called me. If I hadn’t checked my own labs I would not have known.
When I called my doctor they said they had no record of the results, they would not give me an email address to send the result. I said fine please request the result from
Quest Labs. I waited three days no call back. I followed up again and a different person said no record of the test result. They had done nothing. Inexcusable! I already told them I did the test and it shows low kidney function. They ordered the test. All they had to do was call the lab.
I walked myself into the office gave them the labwork and asked for a doctor to order a repeat test.
Another day goes by and nothing.
I went back to the office in person again asking for a repeat test. They wanted me to pay for an appointment with the doctor. I told them to shut the fuck up and give me the lab order in the nicest way I could and finally when the office manager heard the whole story she got me the order. The nerve to ask me to pay for an appointment when they are lucky I’m not calling the AMA.
Result was a low number again. Ugh, I won’t even tell you the whole story. Let’s just say it continued on like this.
I stopped taking the medication on my own. I did another repeat test and my numbers were slightly better, but still below normal. About three weeks after I had stopped the office called me saying I should stop taking the medication. As far as I’m concerned it was straight up negligence.
My kidney function did go back up to the borderline numbers I described above, but never back to where I had consistently been before the medication.
The drug was Losartin, but many people take that drug with no problems.