Elevated BUN & Creatinine, Serum - my supplement list - anything look alarming?

[FRDave]

I got blood work this past Saturday (fasting) as I am trying to dial in my E2 levels (still elevated unfortunately). When receiving my results today, I noticed my BUN & Creatinine levels are elevated (1st time ever and I get lab work done approx. every 2 months). My BUN is 22 on a range of 6-20 mg/dL. Creatinine, Serum was 1.36 on a range of .76-1.27 mg/dL.

With the above in mind, I am wondering if anything I am taking looks alarming? Possibly the Arimidex I started taking for the past 6 weeks?

Following list I have been taking with no affects on BUN/Creatinine, Serum levels:

- NOW Omega-3 (2,160mg EPA / 1,440mg DHA total - divided amongst breakfast, lunch & dinner)
- NOW vitamin C (1,000mg - breakfast, lunch & dinner)
- Source Naturals Life Force Multi (breakfast & dinner)
- Solaray Zinc/Copper (50mg/2mg - breakfast)
- Now B-6 (100mg - lunch)
- MRM Methyl B-12 lozenges w/ folic acid (2,000mcg /400mcg - lunch)
- NOW D-3 (12,000iu total - 5k breakfast, 2k lunch & 5k dinner)
- LEF micronized DHEA (25mg - breakfast & lunch)
- NOW vitamin E (400iu mixed tocopherols - breakfast & dinner)
- NOW Magnesium (400mg - dinner)
- NutriCology micronized Pregnenolone (50mg - breakfast)
- Allmax L-Arginine HCL powder (2g - breakfast & dinner)
- Allmax creatine mono (5g - breakfast or post workout)

Following list I have recently added within the past 5 weeks (after previous blood work 6 weeks ago):

- NOW vitamin A (25,000iu - breakfast [mon/wed/fri])
- NOW NAC (600mg - dinner)
- Arimidex script (.5mg 24hrs after test injection [Sun & Wed])
- Health Supplements Citrulline powder (2g - breakfast & dinner)
- MACA powder (1 tsp ~4g - breakfast & dinner)
- NOW Chromium Picolinate (800mcg pre-workout)
- NOW EGCg (600mg pre-workout)
- LiftMode Synephrine HCL (1 week at 50mg & 1 week at 100mg pre-workout)


Things to note...

I had a 6hr tattoo session on Friday the 21st of June, so 8 days prior to blood work. During this session/day, I took a total of 3 Vicodin (5/500 ea) and 3 Ibuprofen (800mg ea). I would think this would have cleared my system, but maybe my body sees the actual tattoo/healing process as an infection?

I do not drink alcohol nor do I do any drugs of any kind.


Please let me know what you think? If I missed anything, ask away...

Thanks in advance

[FRDave]

Here are my labs. Couldn't attach to post above for some reason.

[austinite]

Hey man. I'll Paste what I posted in the other thread, but I might be overthinking here. See if you can get Bonaparte or Muscle Ink's attention to the thread, they might be seeing something I'm not...

You said you're not diabetic and protein is fairly low, and you've had no recent infections..., so considering your weight, seems water intake isn't terribly bad. Would be better at a gallon or more, especially if you're an active person.

Increased creatinine generally points to an issue that's affecting kidneys. Dehydration is very common. Kidney stones could also cause this.

Similar with BUN levels. Dehydration could cause this also. Bile flow could be hindered which usually that's too much protein but in your case it must be something else.

[FRDave]

Thanks for the reply. I am now taking the 600mg of NAC twice daily (breakfast & dinner) and trying to up my water intake so ill get blood work in another 6-8 weeks and go from there.

Thanks again.

[austinite]

Keep me posted, please!