Kidney Patient Guide

I agree with you Pam-and has anyone heard the it is "Donate Life Month" here in the USA? April is national donate life month! You wouldn't know it but it is!

I just want to say that the abc airing of this show came off as too little too late. In one of their Desperate Housewives episodes they managed to call the opo's "organ vultures". I work hand in hand with trying to get television to show donation in a more proper light. All in all organ do...

Also when we have "transient" or "visiting patients" we do not do re-use, we use disposible, it is far too expensive to use a re-use kidney once or twice and these kidneys are made to work better the more they are used (re-use kidneys are more natural to patients and are less lik...

Hi Jim, I did look into this a few years ago and I was told by my unit that I couldn't go, because dialysis units in the US do not seperate their HIV and Hepatitis patients. I didn't end up following this up, because soon after I went on PD. Maybe someone in the US can advise if this is true (in al...

Just want to say hi. I was just diagnosed with advanced severe renal osteodystrophy a few months ago. Bone pain, hummm....... it is so aweful I never thought I could feel this much pain. I am currently trying to get my meds straightened out and have been med free for 48 hours now and am ready to scr...

Here in the states, the company I was a nurse with didn't even want their hemo pts swimming in a public pool or lake or ocean. I know when I was on pd I was forbidden to take a tub bath only shower. I don't know if you've ever had the dreaded peritonitis but it is very painful, scary and dangerous. ...

Hi James. I'm not sure about after the kidney ceases to function and bulging but my functioning transplant (and first transplant) is very superficial basically you can see it in my lower right quad of my abdomen and it looks just like a kidney. Doctors are amazed by the fact that my kidney is so obv...

I'm so glad Rachel is doing better.

I have not had an infection in my transplant but am still trying to over come a year long E-Coli infection in my native kidneys, which fortunately hasn't had any affect on my new one.

Get Well Soon Rachel

If you are on capd then it is normal for your creatinine to be higher than if you were on pd

I am a hemodialysis nurse and if you creatine isn't becoming lower here in the US it triggers us as nurses to adjust your treatment with the approval from your nephrologist.
Could it be that you need more time on the machine. How are you other numbers-electrolytes and such?

Yes, we measure it differently here. I think that you guys use the clearance and most of our facilities mainly watch watch just the serum. So confusing, especially since all of the lab companies here have different standards of normal limits. Thanks, I hope to report that we have our new bun soon. I...

I wish I'd of read this before I posted mine, lol. My husband and I have just been approved for in-vitro. I do not take any bp meds currently and only take cellcept and prograf. My transplant team is excited that we want to do this. We will start hopefully in January. My transplant team said the onl...

My husband and I have been given the all clear, actually with enthusiasm, from my transplant doc, a hematologist and a rhuematologist along with a high risk ob to go ahead and start our in-vitro treatments with hopes of acheiving a pregnancy. I just would like to read about your experience with preg...

Oh I am so glad I checked in today. Congratulations to you Hal! I am so happy to hear the good news.
Michele

I went back to nursing school full time about 4 weeks after my transplant, 2 weeks after getting staph in my jp drain (minor bump in the road). Going on back helped me mentally. I had a great experience.