How long to wait before being placed on transplant list

Hi everyone

My consultant advised that I should be placed on the waiting list for a kidney on 15 April and wrote to My transplant hospital but I still haven't had any confirmation. Is it normal to have this amount of waiting time just to get on the list?

[catwoman0005]

HI I would wait a little longer ,say a couple of weeks then phone the transplant team at your local hospital and ask them when you will be put on the transplant because I have been there myself and sometimes they need a little kick up the backside Good Luck

[Hidden in reply to catwoman0005]

Hi. Thanks. I just didn't realise it would take so long

[Dara33 in reply to Hidden]

I waited two years, never was on dialysis because I changed to a plant based diet which definitely helped me. When I signed a waiver to accept a kidney with Hep C I was called within two weeks. I accepted the hep c kidney because new meds can cure Hep C

[Nic1988]

I'm awaiting my confirmation too. I hate all this waiting, drives me mad! X

[Falkenhayn]

The tragic shortage of organs for transplant expresses itself at every stage of the transplant process in the form of unnecessary delays slowing down everything you have to do or undergo. A just and humane society would have a presumed consent system so that people would have to opt-out to prevent their organs being taken for transplant at death, because there is no way that people have a superior interest in burying their organs intact over the desperate need of transplant candidates for life. But since people needing a transplant are such a small, vulnerable, and politically non-influential minority, the injustice continues and the transplant process takes way too long, letting many people die while they wait. In Canada, for example, because provincial autonomy is valued above the efficient allocation of organs across provincial borders, the wait for a kidney transplant takes 10 years on average, during which time patients become steadily sicker until they become ineligible for transplant.

[uking]

I waited 6 months to enter the list , and 3 months for the operation. Lot of paper work...