Kidney Patient Guide

Hi bhc962, Being diagnosed with any major illness is always a shock, denial in some form or another is not an uncommon initial reaction. I would suggest you both read through the articles here, https://www.kidneypatientguide.org.uk/ These are a reliable source, and should give you both some basic in...

As I understand it -
If you have had letters telling you to shield, yes, otherwise no.

My wife and I had our Covid Jab on Sat, lots of people were given the same time on Sat afternoon, there was quite a queue outside in the cold for about half an hour. Not very good, a few just turned round, and went home.

I think it works like this: First choice for a Fistula is the lower arm, this leaves the upper arm available for future use. If the lower arm blood vessels are not suitable then next choice is upper arm (in both cases the non dominant side) After that, the dominant side may be considered, if it not ...

My GP surgery contacted my wife to arrange her Covid jab at another surgery in town, eventually they reluctantly added an appointment for me.

Hi, Yes, you could try mentioning it to the staff. Fluid removal - The consultant usually makes an intelligent guess at a patients, 'Dry weight' (weight with no retained fluid). Patients are weighed before dialysis (Wet weight) the Dry weight is subtracted from the wet weight, this figure is the ret...

I would expect about the same time as creating the fistula unless there are complications.

Also similar procedure, and time for recovery.

Hi, How is Mum getting on now? If she is still having problems, try asking her GP for anti sick medication. A long while ago, before I was diagnosed with Meniere's disease, at times I got vertigo just standing up, I prescribed an anti sick pill to tucked under my upper lip when required, it was very...

Hi Thumps,
Lets hope you don't have any reaction, you must be one of the very few that react to vaccines.

Hi Poppy, I have seen this in other patients for the first few sessions but as their bodies adjusted to Dialysis the symptoms subsided. Dialysis removes waste material out of the blood, and (if needed) removes excess fluid, with healthy kidneys this goes on all the time but on dialysis it is removed...

Hi deemaxxx. Thumps has offered you good advice, I would add, try to eliminate added salt from your diet, (to help to reduce blood pressure) and shift to the so called, "Five - a - day diet". Basically this is aiming at eating five portions of fruit or vegetables each day. If you are not g...

Hi,
You need more test to find out what is wrong, there are many reasons for a temporary reduction in kidney function, some are curable, without more tests there will be no way of knowing.

Hi,
Start by having a look at this sites home page there is lots of good reliable information there.

Best wishes.

Hi EnOu1209, GFR is usually eGFR (e stands for estimated), and is well known for being inaccurate but an eGFR is OK, it may become a problem if you became pregnant. With eGFR, it is best to look at trends in several blood tests rather than acting on a single reading. It is possible for the blood res...