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- Tue Feb 14, 2017 6:09 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Homeopathy to boost immune system pre-dialysis?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 49055
Re: Homeopathy to boost immune system pre-dialysis?
I appreciate the desire to clutch at any hope but homeopathy is complete junk based on superstition, pseudo-scientific babble and fake research. There is not a single properly conducted trial that has found any beneficial effect and that is because homeopathy is total tosh to start with. As for Chin...
- Fri Dec 16, 2016 12:07 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Very frequent urination after tx
- Replies: 21
- Views: 84449
Re: Very frequent urination after tx
Hi, Just seen this. By the time I got a TX my bladder must have shrunk to the size of a walnut. Not only a very small capacity, but with no give. My recollection is that it took several months to get to any sort of normality. Apart from maybe a prostate check (which I am guessing would have been par...
- Mon Dec 05, 2016 5:04 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Travel Insurance Cost
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9266
Travel Insurance Cost
Hi Just got off the phone organising travel cover with insureandgo.com. I declared my kidney tx (>5 years) and Type 2 Diabetes (thanks Tacro) and have paid £224.50 for annual multi trip worldwide cover - that includes £102.52 for the declared medical conditions. Seemed pretty good to me particularly...
- Wed Nov 23, 2016 2:53 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: New lady
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17047
Re: New lady
Hi Saw your post. I was living in Brighton when I found out that I had PKD following a scan for a kidney stone. I went through all the stages over a 15 year period and was transplanted in January 2009. I agree with the advice already give. My experience of the RSCH kidney unit was all good. One of t...
- Wed Mar 16, 2016 11:48 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Bone Density.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 35853
Re: Bone Density.
Hi I had a TX in early 2009 (St Georges) and have never been on steroids. I have had bone density scans ca. every three years - so two so far. My results were at the low end of normal. Mentally I delete the 'at the low end' and translate this to 'results were normal'. This seems to be the same proto...
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:59 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Stent Removal: different experiences
- Replies: 29
- Views: 80555
Re: Stent Removal: different experiences
Well this thread brought back memories of six years ago in St Georges . Many a story was told in the post-transplant clinic waiting area about the upcoming stent removals. Strangely it was only the men who joined in. So there I am on on a table in the treatment room, bladder is full, a bit nervous. ...
- Mon Mar 09, 2015 3:29 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Travel Insurance
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7487
Travel Insurance
Hi All, It is that time of year when thoughts turn to holidays and more importantly for us the problem of travel insurance. I have just over three weeks booked for a trip to the US in June. I would welcome advice about who ( and just as importantly who not) I could approach for insurance, I have som...
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:00 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: How long to feel normal after stent removal
- Replies: 11
- Views: 36196
Re: How long to feel normal after stent removal
Hi I had a stent for five weeks after TX. I was never aware of it and following removal had no sensation whatsoever. I agree this is best checked out. I remember the nephrectomy and transplant did not give me any nerves beforehand, but the stent removal was another matter. I recall looking at the sc...
- Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:53 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: question for anyone who had kidney removal
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3632
Re: question for anyone who had kidney removal
Hi, I had 2No 6Kg PKD kidneys removed at the same time. I did think or selling the idea as a new crash diet. For months afterwards sleeping on my side was a problem as everything slopped to one side and I got cramping pains after 10 minutes or so. If I turned over it all slopped the other way. I end...
- Tue Nov 26, 2013 12:26 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: tacrolimus dosing
- Replies: 10
- Views: 15620
Re: tacrolimus dosing
Hi I do. I was taking 1mg morning and 1mg evening and the level was a bit high so the team swapped me to 1mg morning and 0.5mg evening. Result - the level was too low. So they swopped my to alternate days 0.5mg and 1mg for the evening dose. The results are spot on now. Creatanine stayed at 99 throug...
- Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:19 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Pets after Transplant
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6983
Re: Pets after Transplant
Hi, I am coming up to 5 years post transplant and fine with no problems. We have two dogs, a cat and some chickens. I was given no advice about them either way, though did read (mostly from the USA) comments about getting rid of animals. I do take normal sort of precautions e.g. hand washing, latex ...
- Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:02 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Cod liver oil?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13747
Re: Cod liver oil?
Hi
Not really a reply, but...
I was give the OK by the renal unit to take Omega 3 capsules.
Now I am one of those non-vegetarians that do eat fish but not anything with legs so that was OK.
Does anyone know of an Omega 3 capsule that doesn't have beef gelatine in the capsule?
Nick
Not really a reply, but...
I was give the OK by the renal unit to take Omega 3 capsules.
Now I am one of those non-vegetarians that do eat fish but not anything with legs so that was OK.
Does anyone know of an Omega 3 capsule that doesn't have beef gelatine in the capsule?
Nick
- Mon Jul 01, 2013 5:17 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Nephrectomy through the back?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6420
Re: Nephrectomy through the back?
Hi Well I had 30cm kidneys that came out through the front in a bloody great incision - none of that keyhole stuff, I got the full french windows. I have a recollection that an ex work colleagures girl friend had a nephrectomy where they put a bag round the kidney and macerated it in situ to keep th...
- Fri Jun 07, 2013 10:22 am
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: Help Post transplant experience work
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8189
Re: Help Post transplant experience work
Hi, Sorry about your problems and I can't really help. The only thing I do know a bit about is private health care, sickness insurance, critical health cover, mortgage protection etc, you name it I had the lot. When I went into HD and subsequent TX I got nothing. Well not strictly true, my claim on ...
- Wed Nov 28, 2012 8:39 pm
- Forum: The KPG Forum
- Topic: BTS Ethics Symposium
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9632
Re: BTS Ethics Symposium
Hi,
I have always been more interested in the ethics than the medicine so am looking forward to it.
We might even have trains that go east of Exeter by then.
I have always been more interested in the ethics than the medicine so am looking forward to it.
We might even have trains that go east of Exeter by then.