Test Results

I was looking through the portal from my medical group and hospital. They have a lot of my previous test results but it’s not very complete. I don’t think all the test results from the dialysis clinic are in there, and I know it’s missing results from when I was on peritoneal dialysis since it’s a different clinic altogether. The hospital, dialysis clinic, and most of my doctors are all in the same healthcare company. Why can’t they get their shit together and share medical data so I don’t have to update my medication list six times wherever there’s a change.

There was huge spike in the number of entries when I checked into the ER back in November. I can see they ran the test for Troponin several times:

Date	Result
11/11/2019	4.36
11/11/2019	4.21
11/12/2019	11.2
12/14/2019	0.24
12/14/2019	0.23

The first three numbers are prior to surgery. I think the 11.2 prompted them to do an angiogram since it was so high. The last two are from the ER visit and are pretty much normal for about a month after bypass surgery.

There are also lots of basic metabolic panels that include tests for creatinine, phosphorus, potassium, and other kidney related tests.

Date	Creatinine	eGFR	Potassium	Urea Nitrogen
11/11/2019	17.3	3	4.4	53
11/12/2019	17.8	3	4.7	56
11/13/2019	18.0	3	5.0	63
11/14/2019	10.6	5	4.7	33
11/14/2019	9.99	5	4.6	36
11/15/2019	7.97	7	4.3	33
11/15/2019	6.91	8	4.4	25
11/16/2019	6.26	9	5.6	30
11.18/2019	8.39	7	4.7	56
11/19/2019	6.73	9	4.7	40
11/20/2019	8.79	7	4.6	53
11/21/2019	7.06	8	5.0	41
11/22/2019	9.84	5	5.4	61
11/24/2019	8.0	7		42

You can clearly see when I switched from peritoneal dialysis to hemodialysis in the hospital. During the first few days, they wheeled a Baxter cycler into my room and a nurse set up the machine to run my prescription. Obviously, PD was not working for me from the creatinine and urea nitrogen numbers. Once I switched to hemodialysis, the numbers dropped quickly. Still, even with dialysis, I’m only at ~7-9% kidney function.

I was discharged on 11/21/2019 so the tests are probably a day behind. The 11/24/2019 test was done when I went to the ER for hypoglycemia. There are also a lot of Blood Gas tests done, especially on 11/14/2019 which was surgery day. There must be over 10 entries in the medical records but since I don’t usually get this test done, I don’t know what any of the items mean.

A few weeks ago, I asked the medical portal to email me all the test results in the system. When you try to print the email, the print dialog box says it will take 100 pages, double sided, to print everything.