Hey everyone.
I have a question regarding my Husband this time, not me
. Well he has been having some issues ( well actually he feels just fine), but they found many tiny stones in both his kidneys and some of his blood work is off. He now is going to do a 24 hour urine catch. Well with the routine blood test they found that his bilirubin blood level was at 2.1 ( ref range is 0.0-1.0) which is a bit elevated. All his other liver tests on the panel were normal. The doctor did not even seem overly worried about this since all his other liver blood tests were in the normal range. I did some digging of our health files and I found that back in 2009 his bilirubin was also just a bit elevated then too ( it was 1.4 ( ref range was 0-1.2) so it was only a little elevated at that time. The doctor did not even mention it back then and I just noticed it now.
I do know that bilirubin has to do with Jaundice. I looked at my husbands eyes and there is a very light yellowish tinge. You cannot directly see it, I mean he has to lift up his eye lids and you can see it in the corners of the white part of the eyes and where the eye lids cover the eye. WTH, I am freaking out. What could be causing this? I do plan on asking the doctor to look more into this when we see her in a couple weeks. It might have been like this for a long time and I just did not notice it. He says he feels just fine though. Honestly, if it were not for me being persistent with his doctor and pushing her to order the Abdominal ultrasound and kidney ultrasound we never would have known about the kidney issue with all the stones so I guess I just don't feel reassured that the doctor did not seem concerned about this. I am just so mad that I have to advocate for my own health all the time and now my husbands because doctors just do not seem to want to do their jobs or they just seem so passive! WTH???
Anyone on here ever have this issue with the bilirubin? my husband use to drink like a couple of beers nightly but he stopped that since we found out he has these stones. But he never really drank a lot and when he had this blood test done he had not had any alcohol for like 2 weeks. The only medication he is on is allegra for allergies daily. He was taking supplements( Vit D, Calcium, and Vit B complex, and Vit C). Any ideas??
I have a question regarding my Husband this time, not me
. Well he has been having some issues ( well actually he feels just fine), but they found many tiny stones in both his kidneys and some of his blood work is off. He now is going to do a 24 hour urine catch. Well with the routine blood test they found that his bilirubin blood level was at 2.1 ( ref range is 0.0-1.0) which is a bit elevated. All his other liver tests on the panel were normal. The doctor did not even seem overly worried about this since all his other liver blood tests were in the normal range. I did some digging of our health files and I found that back in 2009 his bilirubin was also just a bit elevated then too ( it was 1.4 ( ref range was 0-1.2) so it was only a little elevated at that time. The doctor did not even mention it back then and I just noticed it now. I do know that bilirubin has to do with Jaundice. I looked at my husbands eyes and there is a very light yellowish tinge. You cannot directly see it, I mean he has to lift up his eye lids and you can see it in the corners of the white part of the eyes and where the eye lids cover the eye. WTH, I am freaking out. What could be causing this? I do plan on asking the doctor to look more into this when we see her in a couple weeks. It might have been like this for a long time and I just did not notice it. He says he feels just fine though. Honestly, if it were not for me being persistent with his doctor and pushing her to order the Abdominal ultrasound and kidney ultrasound we never would have known about the kidney issue with all the stones so I guess I just don't feel reassured that the doctor did not seem concerned about this. I am just so mad that I have to advocate for my own health all the time and now my husbands because doctors just do not seem to want to do their jobs or they just seem so passive! WTH???
Anyone on here ever have this issue with the bilirubin? my husband use to drink like a couple of beers nightly but he stopped that since we found out he has these stones. But he never really drank a lot and when he had this blood test done he had not had any alcohol for like 2 weeks. The only medication he is on is allegra for allergies daily. He was taking supplements( Vit D, Calcium, and Vit B complex, and Vit C). Any ideas??
