Kidney Patient Guide

Hope everyone is doing well. I don't come on here that much anymore but just wanted to check in and say i have reached my 4th kidney tx anniversary from my dad. Had a fab christmas we went with my parents to florida for 2 weeks, kids loved it, so did the grown ups!!

Hi JMan. Plymouth definitely has a dialysis unit as that is main renal centre for devon and cornwall, i had my tx there. I believe you should be able to bus it to plymouth from Totnes. Contact the units at the hospital, plymouth is derriford hospital. http://units.renal.org/?c=plymouth. Hope that he...

Hi Thelma, I had my tx in May 2012 at Plymouth Derriford. I live in Bourenemouth since getting married but as my parents are still in Plymouth nd Dad donated it was easier to have it done down there than Bristol which is where Dorset transplants go. Good luck with you move! I'm not on advagraf, I ta...

Wonderful news!

Hi Midgetem. I am sorry to hear what your consultant told you, as mine have always been the opposite, completely supportive. I have had kidney disease all my life, I am now 32 with a 7 and a half yr old boy and and almost 4 yr old daughter. If it is something you really want i would seek a second op...

Huge congrats!! Enjoy it, girls are fab, but cost more than boys lol , am sure my 3 yr old daughter has more clothes and shoes than me! Love the name tooxxx

Saw this on another site and thought would share, i have signed it to possibly prevent cuts, though i would share here in case anyone wanted to do the same xx

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ ... 1408225678

I think generally you have your transplant surgery wherever is closest to your usual unit and has tx surgeons. For example i live in bournemouth, generally patients go to bristol to have their tx surgery as that is the unit used by dorchester/dorset renal clinics. However my dad donated to me and hm...

Hi Matthew, they wouldn't have picked it up during donor testing, because nothing flagged up as unusual (low cholestrol, low bp, normal ecg). He was almost 67 when he donated tho. He was very lucky they realised he had a heart attack tho he just said he felt dizzy and faint, mum took his bp which wa...

lol Amanda. My mum sort of instilled in me to have my kids young, as she unfortunately struggled to conceive me (an only child). Lucky she got married and tried right away young as they were trying for 14 yrs and she had me at 35 (that was considered geriatric 32 yrs ago, she only knew about my one ...

I am lucky i have very supportive and understanding friends and family. Except mother in law who im pretty certain never wanted hubby to marry me 9 yrs ago because i have things wrong with me (she was scared i wouldnt produce grandkids i reckon!) She has come out with some corkers in hr time, but th...

Glad to here u and your brother are doing so well! I am just 2 yrs post tx i got mine from my dad and we are both doing well even tho he had a heart bypass op 6 weeks ago !
How do u feel as the donor, do u notice a change in your body how u feel? x

Hi all! Well I hit 2yrs post tx on the 29th may, unfortunately for those who don't know, dad my donor was then just out of hospital after his heart bypass op and I was in hospital recovering from emergency surgery. I went to hospital thinking I had a stomach bug after 9hrs of vomiting a not being ab...

Thank u guys! I know it was very scary and out of the blue, they think it was from the original scar tissue where they built my bladder from bowel 24 years ago. My dad had issues with scar tissue 2 weeks after he had his appendix removed, but my surgeon said thats quite rare and its much more common...

Hi. I am 32 and i have a boy who will turn 7 in October and a girl who will be 3 in a month. I went through a phase of being broody for another at age 30 funnily enough i think its a natural thing as u know times running out but im way over it now and would not have wanted 3 kids as our two are so c...