My urine protein has jumped to 650 and I am seeing a kidney specialist in a couple weeks. I am really upset. It has never been high before. Has any one had this issue. I know renal diets are low protein. What the hell?? When I was banded in May I did not have this! I am really sick about it.

Yes, mine did too in March of this year (banded Aug 09). It was reading 649 and the Alb/Cr Ration was 45.7 which apparently means I should have been on dialysis!! But I've never felt better for years so WTF???

Re-tested in June and results were back down to 116 and 23.2, both of which are still high but lowering.

I did wonder if it is the toxins from the body fat we are using up. Any large amount of weight loss releases toxins and this would show up in blood and urine screening. Do de-tox diets have a similar effect?

I am still losing weight but also walking for about 2+hours a day so I may be processing things differently these last few months.

A nurse friend of mine who is familiar with renal stuff thought, judging by the first results, that I had a torn membrane but apparently they take the force of a punch, kick etc to tear and I don't recall any in the last few years :-)

Go see the specialist and get it checked out but hopefully for you, like me, it will just be an anomoly and will resolve itself. Unless there is something my GP isn't telling me!!

Best of luck with it. Let me know if your Kidney Spec comes up with anything interesting please.

Thanks for that story.. it makes me feel a little better.. yes.. I feel great.. no swelling.. losing... WTF is right!!!

I will keep you posted... God bless you for responding.. really needed that...