Specialist

In 2011 our daughter Margaret was diagnosed with Orthostatic Proteinuria. During her yearly check up in March of this year the doctor noticed that her levels of protein in her urine were elevated higher then her normal high level. Upon further testing over the span of two weeks we agreed that we should get her an appointment with a specialist. We saw her new specialist yesterday who seemed very knowledgeable about her condition. He ran more tests and took a look at her kidneys and bladder via ultrasound. So far her kidneys look healthy and are not suspected to be the cause of the Proteinuria. What was detected was that her bladder failed to empty after she had voided. This is a cause for concern and he gave us some different exercises and routines to help her with this elimination problem. She also will start on a new medication and a new nutritional plan. We will be following up with him again in 2 months to see if these changes have improved her ability to empty her bladder. Before this follow up she will be going in for another test called an IVP-KUB. At this time they may decided to do another test called a VCUG. I have linked some related articles.

Update: IVP-KUB has been moved up. We have it scheduled June 5 and 8:30 am. If we can wait this long...If she continues to keep getting more infections before the test we will be going in sooner. 

http://www.uptodate.com/contents/orthostatic-or-postural-proteinuria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intravenous_pyelogram

http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/medical/test_vcug.html