Kidney Patient Guide

Hi, I had kidney cancer discovered and quickly treated by nephrectomy at the end of 2015. Seem to have a mild UTI so went to doc. It was also time for routine bloods. Last tests in March, now August. GFR has dropped from 60 (not bad with my one remaining kidney) to 36! Creatinine up over 136. Ive be...

Well as it turned out the tumour was a malignant cancer growing into the vein, and the solution was a radical nephrectomy. Here I am 6 weeks later, quite a bit worse for wear but glad they got it out, as it turned out to be stage 3 cancer. The recovery has been arduous and painful but it's better th...

Hello. I am a newbie here. I had a total knee replacement 5 weeks ago. About 2 weeks later, I got a urine infection, with blood in urine. It got cleared up with antibiotics but turned out to be fortuitous, as the GP sent me for a checkup at hospital. I had an ultrasound first, then a week later I ha...

Funny that this was posted on the day I had my kidney scan!