A good place to ask questions like this are on message forums - the first is for donors www.livingdonorsonline.org and another is for kidney patients www.ihatedialysis.com. Good luck!
Hi, Kim - There are two issues here. 150/90 is a high blood pressure but not to the point where it usually causes symptoms and not to the point where it is a medical emergency. If her blood press...
Do the doctors tell what percentage kidney function she has now? Is there anyone in the family who can donate a kidney to her? There are lots of other patients and caregivers who can answer your qu...
Let me give it to you straight. If she started dialysis today, on average, she would live 3-5 more years. The annual mortality rate for End Stage Renal Disease patients is 22%. That means that t...
Elevated potassium causes the cardiac muscle cells to be unstable electrically and can cause life threatening arrythmias. The immediate goal pending removal of potassium (via dialysis) is to try t...
i understand where you are coming from but it boils down to equal opportunity. Everyone can't afford to buy an organ if they need it and if organ were sold then there would probably be no way ...
How awful for you and your family. My sympathy is with you. It is fairly common for failed kidneys to cause many health problems. The kidneys filter out the waste in the blood, when they are not...
Creatinine is a difficult thing to control. A small fraction of it is contributed by your physical activity, but the vast majority is determined by your body size and remaining kidney function. A...
