Experiences with

Renal Replacement Therapy

I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of some horrible symptoms (dizziness, weakness, fatigue, feeling jittery, brain fog) and have resorted to a private blood test as not getting anywhere with GP. test shows high FT4 under thyroid section and high cystatin C under kidney section (which I believe is

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I am an 87 year old Male with diabetes, heart disease, and stage four kidney disease. My Nephrologist sent me to a class on types of dialysis and I will be seeing him in January. I am thinking he will probably want me to get a fistula. A little concerned, but take it one day at a time

Hello I'm currently a dialysis patient, diabetic, and heart failure I was recently diagnosed with. So my question is there anyone living with heart failure and doing dialysis?I'm not sure on what I should be feeling finding out about living with heart failure. Any advice would help. Thank you for your

Hi All, Jools, Sue and everyone do you know how much Oxycodone is safe to take? I was prescribed 5mg did nothing. Neurologist letter adviced G.P to go to 10 mg Oxycodine with 5mg Naloxcone. G.P said he’s only prepared to prescribe 10 mg Oxycodone and he can’t prescribe Naloxone as it not allowed

I don't post much because my RLS isn't too bad most nights.I tried adding that both my kidneys have failed because of catching Covid for the second time and already I have a number of health issues. I am on Peritoneal Dialysis and I am diabetic. I treat my RLS with 75mg Pregabalin, I know it's nothing

I have been on low dose HRT now for about 2 years and my DEXAs show substantial improvement in the two DEXAs since then (e.g.-my spine went from -3.1 to -2.6). But my TBS continues to decline showing as degraded and seems to be getting worse. Can anyone explain this?

I have been on low dose HRT now for about 2 years and my DEXAs show substantial improvement in the two DEXAs since then (e.g.-my spine went from -3.1 to -2.6). But my TBS continues to decline showing as degraded and seems to be getting worse. Can anyone explain this?

Hello, I’m still struggling on, unable to tolerate any levo or levo/lio combo…been getting on for nearly 2 years and I’m fed up to say the least… I saw an endo this week who doesn’t think I should take thyroid medication at all, altho did say excipients are often the issue. I said I’d already tried

I’m 49, peri-m, on HRT. I’m doing a fasting female testosterone blood test with Superdrug private Dr. Do I really need to delay my NDT Armour meds to do this blood test? Surely my testosterone will be low whether I take Armour or not? 🤔

For many of us, I suspect that the words lipidomics and lipidome are new - they are to my spelling checker! This is a very substantial paper with lots and lots of detail. Things like the possibility of high density lipoprotein (HDL of cholesterol fame) going up or down or remaining unaltered in hypothyroidism

Hi there, I’ve been complaining of feeling nauseous in the mornings and hungover so I followed the suggestion on here of doing a cortisol blood test. The result was higher than I was expecting at 284 (166-507) so I’d imagine this is close enough to 300 to not cause concern. I did the test fasting at

Hi. I'm 55, female, perimenopausal. I was diagnosed with Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) in 2016 aged 46. No radiotherapy/chemo but lots of surgery. In the middle of this, I had a thyroid goitre appear, seemingly from nowhere. It was reviewed on US as slightly swollen thyroid lobes with multi

I've been taking levothyroxine for the past 30 years and my dose has recently been increased to a wopping 225mg after my tsh results were low. Interestingly my results on 200 mg 6 months ago showed I was being overmedicated. For the last few years I have felt increasingly rubbish...in a nutshell old

I posted on here a while ago that I had been diagnosed with vaginal dryness.Now have a vaginal HRT cream which has been brilliant no pain etc.However after sex the other day I noticed a couple of pink streaks when I wiped. It was very faint and only on the paper. I had a scan etc when I was first diagnosed

So ANA tests positive for Sjorens but only a few antibodies so very mild. Want to see me in a year. Already take vit d, tumeric and fish oil for aches and pains and drink more water for dry eyes and mouth. New to HRT too. This has resolved all other symtoms. So not too worried although I will need to

Hello. I'm new on here and could do with some advice please! Back in May I had a CT Colonography which showed an Ovarian cyst. (This was by chance as the scan was to look at my bowel). Then in July, I had an ultrasound and transvaginal ultrasound which showed a large fibroid (5.2 cm) in the middle

I have had Radiation induced lumbar plexopathy (RILP) for 50 years ever since I received pelvic radiation after a pollop removal. At the time it was suggested I could have radiation just in case anything had escaped although the doctors thought they had removed everything (the pollop had become fractured

I had a hysterectomy in February for Adenomyosis and Fibroids. They said I didn't have Endo following a laparoscopy, mri and ultrasound. I have always had very painful periods and ovulation pains. Scans have always been clear. My pelvic pain has been considerably worse the past 3 years. Last year I was

Hi just looking for advice from anyone on this latest blood tests platelets 950 no treatment for this as shortage of interferon and doc is happy enough to Hold off for a while and see but to monitor I've had no history of clots or stroke thankfully and I'm cal r but my question I've been put on hrt patch