Experiences with

Acute renal failure

Sudden auto immune disease vasculitis sufferer that caused acute renal failure would like to find someone else who has the same problem to compare notes.

Anyone out there with an auto immune disease that resulted in acute renal failure had any renewal or seen an increased kidney function over recovery time. If so , how many months after diagnosis. I have had another vasculitis flare up and back on a shed load of steroids.

Hi everyone, it’s been a very long time since I’ve posted anything on this forum. Hope you’re all as well as you can possibly be, if not I hope you feel better soon. I have a question for you all and although it’s through the possible worst pandemic this country has been through, I would like to ask

Im not seeking any medical advice with this question. Do any of you know why some of us, post transplant, take different immune suppressants? I take 2 mg of Advagraf (slow relase) once a day. Others that i have met on the liver unit that were transplanted around the same time as me, December 2019, or

I have an appointment next week at an addiction clinic, even though I am not an addict. I have restless legs and chronic back pain. I went to this particular clinic a couple of months ago to request a script for Subutex. The doctor said he wouldn’t prescribe it because I would have to report to a

Hi. I am due for a kidney biopsy next week and wasn't given much tips on what to prepare or not do post biopsy other than stay in bed for 6hrs. Doctor told me that I might have igAn based on my proteinuria and high hematuria. I am very concerned as I am only 24 years old and a female trying to start

I am late stage four kidney disease with a GFR of 20. Recently I have had difficulties sleeping at night and wonder if that is common with people at my stage. If so what do you do about it as it adds to the overall feeling of fatigue. My doctor says I am too old for sleeping pills whatever that means

I have always been ana positive in the past and my recent one was negative which puzzled the rheumatologist, as I have been suffering from increased inflammation which showed in my bloods. I have been feeling dreadful and she says it's due to increased lupus activity. Has anyone else had this happen

More post transplant questions 😀 So dad is still taking small steps slowly but surely forward, he’s on tacrolimus, mychoohelate and prednisalone, he had some swelling in ankles/feet when he came home which went up and down but seem to be staying swollen now, we seen renal team at our local hospital

Okey, for those who haven’t followed my posts, my nephrologist's nurse practitioner discovered that I had vitamin D toxicity this past summer. It resulted from a medication they had prescribed to treat a secondary hyperpararhyroid problem I’ve developed. They were supposed to check my vitamin D level

Many people who have received their liver transplant at the QE, will most likely know of Alan Hyde. Alan has been a strong supporter of the QE for over 14-years, visiting patients on the liver transplant ward (726), Alan was also chairman of the “Queen Elizabeth Liver Patients Support Group”, and featured

Hello I am 47 years old I started dialysis March 2020. My question may song strange but do people ever get off dialysis without having a kidney transplant with end stage renal failure

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I'm now 7 weeks post transplant and my liver is working perfectly, but at clinic this week my kidney blood tests were elevated to moderate (stage 3) kidney failure. Is this common following a transplant and is it something that will improve or continue to be a concern or get worse? P.s. I am diabetic

I have been reading a lot about the benefits of infrared sauna in general about health(cardiovascular, inflammation, cognitive, hormonal). Some studies mention benefits to the kidney function (http://europepmc.org/article/MED/17267744). Before buying one I would like to know if anyone had positive results

I am 73 year male. today I had done my blood tests and based on creatinine and cystatin C values, my GFR values are given. Kindly comment. I do not have any other health issue. all electrolytes are in range. No diabetes, no BP, no Cholesterol issue,.: CKD-EPI Creatinine equation--36 CPD-Creatinine-CystatinC

Roughly a year ago a blood test revealed my gfr as 82 with the comment stage 2 chronic kidney disease. This initially alarmed me so I googled it and was reassured that this is normal for my age (72). It also implied that it wouldn't ever get back to a higher level. A couple of weeks ago I had a routine

Hello Everyone. My father is diabetic and has undergone kidney transplant 5 years ago. Can he consume sugar free chyawanprash

Hi, I have epilepsy and CKD stage 5, in the U.K. transplants are on hold because of covid-19. I have been put on CAPD as temporary measure as egfr is 9! I have noticed that when I’m on my second or third drain my epilepsy comes on I go blank and I struggle to think. Apparently there is no known link

Hi, hope this message finds you well I am new member, excited to be here. I received my blood test today and will discuss it with my doctor next week. In the meantime I would be grateful if I can get some advices from good fellows here The questions I have is from my March 2020 to June 2020 measurements