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- Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:09 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: I'm angry-how about you?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9477
- Wed Apr 04, 2007 11:02 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Why doesn't UK TV support organ donation like US TV?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 12100
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:47 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: USA dialysis
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11997
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:44 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: USA dialysis
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11997
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...
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:38 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Bone pain
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6406
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...
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:34 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: SWIMMING
- Replies: 16
- Views: 23027
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. ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:30 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: bulging transplanted kidney
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3512
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...
- Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:12 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Kidney infection in transplanted kidney? Rachel is HOME!!!
- Replies: 44
- Views: 33584
- Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:37 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Please post if you had a baby post transplant
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7909
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 11:55 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Please post if you had a baby post transplant
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7909
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 8:47 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Please post if you had a baby post transplant
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7909
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...
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:13 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Post-transplantation and pregnancy
- Replies: 14
- Views: 12575
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...
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:05 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Please post if you had a baby post transplant
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7909
Please post if you had a baby post transplant
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...
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:02 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Hal's transplant
- Replies: 29
- Views: 19843
- Fri Dec 15, 2006 7:01 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Those of you who have Transplants
- Replies: 21
- Views: 17146