Kidney Patient Guide

i would just like to know on how much fluid restrictions you are because i have had no problem but when i was on HD the guy next to me drank 7 liters i mean thats a whole lot i myself was on HD and had 2000 ml restriction now im on CAPD and im on 1500 ml restiction and i asked to have a higher conce...

i dont know what you guys are talking about but my nurse said that i could simply swim without anything on it but i gues it is because we have the ocean all around us and she also said not to swim in pools but you may shower with it normaly just have to remeber after each shower the wipe it dry with...

its been about half a year since ive been on CAPD im glad to be here thats the way i think other people i see are depressed and angry not me im always glad to be here they still dont know what happend to me to cause kidney failure and the neph said he would do a biopsi because 80% of the time when t...

Sorry to hear about that i had the same problem when i was on my 4th day of training i had a leak right to my scrotom (it was big as hell :D ) so i had surgery to fix the weak spot i whent on hemo for a couple of weeks again but then when i began pd again i had a leak again and then they told me tha...

wel everybody has their opinions and reasons -

i have no idea what i was diagnosed with but i do remeber that they said that my kidneys "shrunk" and that it should of happened in the long run but the dictor doesnt know what aused it he thinks some sort of disease maybe or hypertension since my bloodpressure was high and it took alot of...

i chose pd becuase my doctor strongly recomeded it because im young i can eat much more than on hemo i can drink more i have freedom once i go on to ccpd instead of beeing stuck on a machine for 4 hours a day 3 days a week i personaly chose it also because i had hemo thru a cahtete and it left me fe...

there is a women here that suposedly cured one of the patients here she makes herbal medicine i talkied to guy and he said that it was true and alot of people here know him because he even whent to the netherlands and was told he did not have long to live there is also this other guy that is now cur...

Heloo my name is Jack
i live on the lovely island of aruba
im 16 and i have been diagnosed with kidney failure in oktober
this is all new to me
im currently on capd and waiting for my apd machine to arive