Kidney Patient Guide

so true - endless witch doctory and snake oil offers abound! I'm very pragmatic and realistic about what lies ahead, I think, but can find very little personal stories from those opting for 'managed care', i.e. no invasive treatment, just meds and pain relief in the expectation of exiting the stage ...

thank you for your kind message. As a lawyer and someone who has lived with renal problems since childhood, been in and out of hospitals innumerable times and endured 14 assorted operations of various kinds, I'm reasonably conversant with most of the readings (receive all my blood and urine results ...

Are we talking about PREDISOLONE? i cannot take any non steroidal anti inflammatories and so regularly rely on Predisolone to help the pain and inconvenience of gout in my hands and systemic osteoarthritis, all related to and worsening thanks to Stage 4 CKD. I am lucky in that this particular drug, ...

Hi -i'm new to this forum and to the prospect of dialysis or managed care as having recently reached Stage 4 after years of congenital kidney malfunction. I'm 72 and always was a high energy lawyer, happily working long days well past usual retirement age, doing voluntary work as well and managing o...

thank you for taking the time to offer some advice. I have inevitably spent hours on line on this and many other sites, both UK and US based and so think I understand the options and would have thought that the nocturnal haemo is the one whicha allows one to live the most of a life. I really dislike...

HI, i'm Sue, 72, a lawyer and reputation management consultant, based in the beautiful Cotswolds, though a global traveller, just back from a terrific trip round Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia where, despite 36 degrees and high humidity I managed to see almost all I'd hoped to see, despite my medics' re...