Creatinine is one of 100s of toxins which kidney get rid off. High creatinine only tells that your kidneys are not working normally.
As an analogy, when a water purifier is functioning improperly, The impurities in the water you drink increases. You can't decrease the impurities in water until your filter gets better. Similarly you can't decrease your creatinine until your kidney function improve
Medicine can be there based on cause and duration of kidney illness, which by causing renal recovery may decrease urea and creatinine.
Now creatinine come from muscles but not other 100 of toxins which come from other parts of body. You by loosing your muscles can decrease creatinine production and hence creatinine level without any improvement in kidney function. You can loose muscles by stop eating protein, it will make you frail and weak but won't improve kidney function just your creatinine number will get lower.
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