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- Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:24 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Myfortic, Prograf and Pred.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3983
Hi, Lizzie - I know it's hard NOT to worry a lot when the docs start messing with your meds, but especially in the first year post-transplant, there's often quite a bit of fine tuning required... As long as they're closely monitoring your bloods as changes are being made, things should be okay and e...
- Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:40 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: any ideas on how to prevent gagging when cleaning teeth?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7404
Hi, all - Before my transplant, I, too, suffered very badly from a hair-trigger gag reflex. In my case, there were 2 different triggers: smells and anything touching my tongue (especially toothbruch and tablets.) I wasted more pills than you can imagine back then! It got to the point that I could on...
- Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:16 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Dating a kidney patient
- Replies: 23
- Views: 29245
- Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:57 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Cellcept (mmf)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4294
- Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:29 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Supermarket causing nausea
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2517
Hi, trinitybell- In my WORST pre-transplant moments, I likened many of the feelings resulting from renal illness to those of being pregnant... In either case, certain food odors could really set me off! (Even the LOOK of certain foods - for me, raw meat, in particular) could just about do me in. Suf...
- Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:47 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Sentenced to prednisone.....forever!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 6296
Hi, Pam - The worst pain I have ever had in my life came from pred withdrawal! (and I've had 2 kids & have fractured my back - twice!) I think I'm on pred forever, too - I take 5mg a day, even now, 6 1/2 years post transplant. My docs have never tried to wean me off the stuff since the reaction I ha...
- Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:09 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: New look Kidney Patient Guide site
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3463
Well done, all of you! The site looks cheerful and clean, and it's a breeze to navigate. While I'm not a UK patient myself, I have to say that you've done a great service to many by providing so much basic info & so many contact options for those who use the site. Congratulations on a job well done!...
- Mon May 04, 2009 8:47 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Attn All Oldies: Then and Now...
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13034
- Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:23 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Living unrelated transplant coming up - Tuesday 2nd Dec
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8573
- Sat Nov 29, 2008 8:58 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Happy Thanksgiving :0)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2322
Well, thanks, Rik. Spent the whole holiday giving thanks - well, not really, but a little! As I mentioned to my daughter, perhaps it's the Brits who should be giving thanks that some of us had ancestors who decided to pick up & leave way back when! (My own family was from Salisbury & left on the "2n...
- Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:46 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: KPG up for award
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5955
- Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:07 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Further update- Results
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2046
Hi, Jim - just a quick note to let you know that I'm thinking about you! Just don't let all those doctors & white coats get you down, okay? lots of love, Cheryl p.s. I don't usually suffer the "white coat" effect, but at my last appointment a couple of weeks back, the nurse took my BP and said, "Hmm...
- Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:56 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: transplant newbie
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10212
- Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:50 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: post transplant diabetes
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8877
Hi, Keith - I haven't followed up much on the pancreas transplant topic lately, but from what I recall, here in the US, type 1 diabetes is not necessarily a requirement for a pancreas transplant, BUT "high preference" is certainly given to those with type 1. I believe that "just pancreas" transplant...
- Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:22 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: 2 weeks in hospital
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3595