Kidney Patient Guide

Thanks Candida :) I've already had a couple of people say that they would be willing to get tested for being a live donor for me; the hospital gave me a DVD for them this morning. My consultant reckons it would be good to look at pre-emptive transplantation before I need to get onto dialysis. Tis a ...

I've just joined the Facebook group - I got transferred to Guys from Charing X last year, got my 2nd clinic appointment next week.

I've already been pretty honest about the situation with my closest friends, and some of them have already said that they want to do the relevant tissue testing and things... I haven't quite worked out if I'm prepared for someone else to do something like that for me, it's an enormously big deal in ...

Hiya *waves* I got diagnosed with PKD about ten years ago and aside from taking BP medication every day and a few infections I've been pretty much symptom free until just recently. I had a chest infection and then, with no warning, I ended up in hospital with the worst kidney infection I've ever had...

Thanks for all the replies. :) As you say, with function around 50-60% I'm probably worrying over nothing at this stage but I just wanted to get a sense of others' experience at this stage so I don't get caught out unexpectedly by questions later. Seems sensible that I don't mention anything until a...

Hi there Hopefully someone can answer this for me - apologies if it's a stupid question but it's only just occurred to me really. I've been diagnosed with APKD for the last eight years or so - I've been at the same company for seven years, and there's never been an issue with it or me taking time of...