Experiences with

Organ transplant

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Forum members, My son who is 34 is in hospital with this condition. He has been an alcohol abuser for many years, and this is his first admittance to hospital. If his liver cannot recover or repair itself, and without having a liver transplant, is there no hope for our sons recovery? Worried Woollid

I’ve been absent from the forum for a while due to illness. A month after I lost my husband, I ended up in the ICU. My H and H was 6 and 19 I think. I was bleeding from my esophageal varicies. They identified the bleed and tied them off. My liver was close to not functioning at all, and because of the

I have had fatty liver disease and now NASH (presumably). I have had 3 fibroscans 6 months apart and I'm now Stage 3 Fibrosis. kPa was 5.4, then 7.5 and now 11.4. CAP was 328, 306, and now 216. I am scared out of my mind. I just retired, and I feel like I'm going to drop dead in a year now. I'm not ready

Well I had a single lung transplant 2.5 years ago and doing great .... I went for my check up at newcastle and they say my lung disease has returned 😥 I have pulmonary alveolar proteinosis... it's in my genes which therefore it will progress , we dont know how long it will take but the option of re

Has anyone gone through a stem cell transplant that did not put the cancer in remission? What medications did they suggest for you?

If you had a transplant and it was due to polycystic kidney disease (PKD), I would like to know if you had the first year low white blood counts and low hemoglobin. 7 mos post transplant my spouse that found out he had PKD at age 30 (now 59), is having since mid March major hemoglobin low numbers. I

Morning everyone, I was wondering if any of my Royal Free transplant buddies are attending the celebration event on 12th July at the Emirates stadium? My wonderful hospital completed their 2000th Liver Transplant (yes 2000th) in December 2018 💚. Royal Free transplant recipients have been invited to

Hi everyone, I am new here, been following people’s journeys since Feb and not yet commented. I suffer from severe anxiety and heart palpitations. around 2 years ago we found out that my dad has heart failure, his mum had cardiomyopathy which runs through the family and also 2/3of his uncles have died

I had a Liver Transplant Oct 2016 due to Liver Cancer. A few months after, I experienced horrendous pains in my legs and feet, in particular my right. The QE, Birmingham dismiss my medication is the cause. I am on Tacrolimus and Mycrophenolate. I have developed a dropped foot, swollen foot, constant

I lived with severe COPD for 10 years with16% lung capacity. Almost seven years ago I received a double lung transplant. I am now An activist for COPD, the American Lung Association, smoking cessation,and organ donation.

I am a woman, not yet 62. Though diagnosed about 7y ago, when I was told I probably have a liver transplant in my future, I have always been pretty much asymptomatic. I now have NASH cirrohosis, end stage-- had a variceal bleed over the new year, they did an endoscopy, found three varices, but because

My father is 64 years of age and underwent kidney transplant 4 years ago now the creatine level has up to 1.5 what are the precaution that i must take to avoid any further damage to kidneys and also is there any way to lessen immunosuppressants.

Hello everyone! I recently received a kidney transplant this past weekend and I was just curious about how many of you who had also received one have been feeling the first couple days/weeks. I’m terribly bloated and this pain is crazy. Thank god for painkillers right? lol. Has anyone had the stent

does enalapril medication make ur kidney function or gfr decrease . very concern my gfr when from being normal for my kidney transplant to one point 6 gfr really worried but at the same time in hope that the reason it decrease because of this medication and because i didnt drink enough water was feeling

Six months after my 2nd kidney transplant I started rejecting and they discovered I had the BK virus so they took mr off MMF and kept me on Adoport and added Prednisolone which is now at 10mg per day and have been on this now for 18 months and have been told I will have to stay on this dose always .

Morning All, Just a quick question... I am a kidney transplant patient with painful arthritis. Someone has recomended Tiger Balm.... Does anyone else use this? Is it ok with transplant meds? Thanks Mgt

My husband has had a cirrhotic liver and alcoholic liver disease for a number of years coupled with all the complications this brings. He has now been abstinent for 4 and a half years, as I write he is spending his 17th night in hospital, this is his 3rd stay this year. In January this year he was told

Can’t really answer this as I haven’t had one for my CLL. Am 76 years old. Issue of bone marrow transplant has been raised several times in my CLL “career” ( 16 years ). My specialists have told me that I am too old for such a procedure. In fact one of them said it would probably kill me. And that response

[i]Bone marrow aspirate showing Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML). Several blasts have Auer rods. Wikipedia [/i] [i] [/i] This article out of the University of Montreal seems to hold some promise for the treatment of AML. Rather than just posting a link I thought it might be easier for all to read this extract