In July of 2006, my husband was diagnosed with AIDS. He was put on Atripla and since then has had a higher cd4 and undetectable viral load. Throughout this time, he has continued to use drugs, mainly crack, and has continually taken as many as 12 ibuprofens a day, a vitamin multipac, a vegetable pill multipac, 40mg nexium, 2 alka seltzer cold per day, and about 9-12 dr. peppers every day. In July of this year his kidney panel came back abnormal. His creatinine was 1.5 and eGFR was 53. His kidneys have been hurting for about 3 months and his urine has been foamy. In October, his test showed creatinine at 1.4 and eGFR at 57. This puts him in stage 3 CKD. I asked his doctor about this and he said it was wrong and that his eGFR was actually over 80. I don t know why the lab report would say differently. How quickly can this go to stage 5 if left untreated?