Kidney Patient Guide

G'Day Gang...thanx for all the goodwil messages. THis Hospital foyer P.C. eats coins like I currently eat bananas!!! So can't stay long. Creat 184 today. Bit more energy - can stand about, like in a queue at Starbucks for that Chai Latte', without feeleing the need to fall over ! Daily 7-days-a-week...

I have had 3 fistula ops all under a general, my last one in December was a Balisic Vein Transposition so can understand why that one was done under a general as it a complicated one with a rather large scar - otherwise maybe its because i can be a bit neurotic! Good luck with yours Sue xx Only onc...

I lost my lovely upper-left-arm fistula in November '06. :( Since then I've been runnig on catheters - right chest for 7 months; left chest for 2 weeks...& back in ambulance with huge infection; groin one for 9 days; trans-lumbar for 5 months. :roll: 2 attempts at new fistulas at right wrist: cl...

This is probably gonna be a rant. IM sick feed up of dialysis , pills and the hospital. NO!!! surely NOT!...I find that hard to believe!! :lol: sorry :oops: BUt yeah, aren't we all!??? Well those of us above moron level anyway. Ya know, I can't even _dream_ without it impinging on me!! I put an ite...

Hi Fred, Thats the best laugh I've had in ages. The Iron infusions are great. They certinaly are!!! I have some every week...and 60mcg of Aranesp too. Otherwise I wouldn't function at all!!! As it is I'm permanently stuffed. I can't beleive there a re folk here who don;t have it 'normally', only no...

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:roll: Well I've got a lovely collection of big scars - one like you describe on my upper left arm, from a wonderful fistula...which I then lost due to infection, a 10-12cm one on my right fore-arm from 2 failures done in early '07, and another to match the upper left arm one, on my upper right arm!...

A Week in Week Out special report tonight follows the extraordinary journey of a transplant patient so desperate for a new kidney that he leaves his home in Wales and travels to the Philippines to buy one from a live donor. It is illegal to buy and sell human organs in the UK so Mark Schofield a fo...

[quote="beachy"]Some of you already know Prof Agar and his website on Nocturnal Dialysis. he is a well respected nephrologist who is committed to improving renal care worldwide...... I will make sure they are sent on to Prof Agar. Aye aye!! I didn't know you were on here now too, Beachy!! ...

advice/reassurance for my Dad please. He has just been told that, due to his arteriosclerosis, his veins and arteries aren't strong enough for a fistula. This means he has to continue hemo through his chest catheter. Has anyone else had to do this? . Any ideas if there are alternatives? Billie I lo...

Strangely I'd be quite happy to sooth savage breasts! You DID mean to type that, didn't you.. I can think of a few other things if you run out of ideas! Ah yes...when I spotted the entry I thought "how refreshing to see the proper quote" But I always thought this was a "Billy-the-Bar...

ive eaten star fruit a few times. the info is pretty good but where is it evidence? its the same as crnbery juie, i heard thta i shouldnt have that, but yet there is no real solid evidence! Well no, but the effects are evidence enough. The odd slice ain't gonna kill ya, but apparently they suspect ...

I received the kidney of a quite young child, who apparently was quite fond of bananas and chocolate...because I wasn't :shock: I did hear of one lady, who'd always been a bit of a health food type, who received a kidney from a young accident victim & soon after got a McDonald's craving that sh...

Well chucking my 2c'worth in... I did 15 months on P.D. & was ratshit - a walking death, only without much walking. I was totally stuffed. I was whacking 80s of Aranesp into alternating thighs each week, but my clearances were crap. Fluid loss was O.K., but that's all :roll: Then I went onto Hae...

I take it you mean total vegetable-matter-only, when you say you used to be vegan. Unfortunately, as a renal patient, there's no way you can go back to it. At the very least you will need dairy & egg product. We leach out so much protein on dx, which is why you've been told about the 8 lots. I w...