Kidney Patient Guide

Hello Stephen, in my case with EPO injection it was when my haemoglobin level dropped below 100.00, and it duly did, my renal consultant had told me this would happen a month or two before this and had arranged through renal clinic pharmacy for injections to be delivered direct to house by medical c...

Issue now resolved regarding injection, seen my renal consultant today and he said he would get one of the clinic nurses to show me how to self inject...when getting my normal bloods done the nurse then talked me through it and it really is quite a simple procedure, also have step by step guide to f...

Thanks for reply guy's, I have appointment with consultant tomorrow Thursday and have No doubt issue will be resolved...and as skm23435 says it is probably all down to costs...will keep you informed of outcome,just to let you know I have been on long journey with renal disease as have PKD and eFGR i...

Have been prescribed Darbepoetin by hospital consultant for anaemia treatment...first batch of 4 injections arrived last week by courier...I then made appointment with my practice nurse at local health centre to have first injection and when I turned up the health centre manager said that they did n...

I am surprised that the problem lizbee is having with Fistula was not picked up earlier, in Glasgow they have fistula clinic approx 6 weeks after op to check on progress and see if it will mature well enough to start haemodialysis, I am not too far behind lizbee on kidney function and only going by ...

Hello all, I have PKD. and was first diagnosed apprx 1999, not sure of numbers then and just remember going to clinic and having blood pressure taken and weighed and giving urine samples, seeing doctor and having blood samples taken then told to come back in a years time...now almost 15 years on I a...

hI lizbee, after phoneing hospital at 10-ooam and 1-00 pm and told that No beds were available, one of the ward nurses phoned me back at 2-30pm to say that they would re-arrange my surgery for another date, what is annoying me more is that when I went for check up 6 weeks after first Fistula op in A...

Sorry to hear that you were messed about when going in for Fistula op at the Western infirmary lizbee, I was due in there this morning to prepare for surgery tomorrow only to be told there are No beds and have to phone back at one o'clock, so heres hoping they have a bed available and they can tie o...

Hi lizbee, I went for day surgery at Stobhill hospital Glasgow to have Fistula op under local and this attempt failed, then had to go for vein mapping to Western infirmary, was then given date August 7th for Fistula op at same hospital and like yourself I had to go in the day before for all the pre-...