OK, I am glad that my Dr and specalist are hypersensitive, so that assures me that they are not just going to let me fall over dead, out of no where, but...
Doing a quick search this morning I found this
and this from the same article:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatinine
Men tend to have higher levels of creatinine because they have more skeletal muscle than women. Vegetarians tend to have lower creatinine levels, because vegetables contain no creatinine.
The specialist asked if I was a wrestler... I told him no, I just work out a lot...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatinine
The typical reference ranges are 0.5 to 1.0 mg/dL (about 45-90 μmol/l) for women and 0.7 to 1.2 mg/dL (60-110 μmol/l) for men. While a baseline serum creatinine of 2.0 mg/dL (150 μmol/l) may indicate normal kidney function in a male body builder, a serum creatinine of 0.7 mg/dL (60 μmol/l) can indicate significant renal disease in a frail old woman.
More important than absolute creatinine level is the trend of serum creatinine levels over time.
He asked why, I said, at first it was to stay in shape, now it is just for it's own sake..
He told me that creatinine would be higher in someone who has a lot of muscle breakdown, as someone who trains w/ weights would..
My creatinine levels were only 1.5, he said he would have been cool w/ 1.3, but the wiki says up tp 2.0 can be normal for a male bodybuilder! I think he is being extra cautious and just giving me stock advice, not taking into account my specifics...
I mean seriously, if you are on this site, you take working out serious! Him telling me to just lay off, which is what it amounts to if you can't take in the proper nutrition, b/c your WO is not going to go any where w/o eating right...
That is like telling a hardcore drunk to just stop drinking...
I think I am just going to stop my creatine supp, while they finish the tests they want to run (they want to collect a 24hr urine sample, to see what my creatinine clearance is, blood test and an ultrsound/ ct?)... I was still supplementing creatine while on cycle... I use EE so there is no bloat w/ it, like mono...
And when I stopped using it in the fist few weeks of my cycle, when the test e hadn't fully kicked in, I felt weak and sluggish in the gym... But some guys don't use it on cycle anyway, so no big loss there...