I Had A Kidney Transplant!

Calin Leafshade · Tue 02/08/2011 10:46:30

Yea I remember you mentioning this on the 'Register for organ donation' thread i started a while ago.

Have the doctors told you about the dangers? I mean what if the organ was from a murderer... I've seen documentaries about it...

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Tue 02/08/2011 11:16:00

Was this the documentary?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101492/

Ali · Tue 02/08/2011 11:21:42

Congratulations, I wish you the best of health. In the UK the DVLA have changed their form to encourage organ donors (which the Daily Mail somehow reported as bad news!).

On a side note, this reminded me of a Superhero Sprite Jam back in 2003, and one of the most obscure puns I've ever come up with:

Kidney Dialysis Man - he's there when urea-lly need him.

(I hope the crapness of that does not spoil your day...)

blueskirt · Tue 02/08/2011 14:10:10

That's good to hear! I am happy for you, Blackthorne!

Eggie · Tue 02/08/2011 14:14:08

Yyyyyyyeeeeaaaah!
You're a mandroid!!

Calin Leafshade · Tue 02/08/2011 16:17:51

Did you ask them to give you scissors for hands?.. just in case.

Blackthorne · Tue 02/08/2011 16:35:16

I love that I saw a Starchaser: The Legend of Orin reference in this thread!

I feel great - amazing, actually. One of the ways they measure kidney function is your creatinine cleareance - creatinine is a muscle waste product. Normal is about 0.6-1.9 (The high end being for people who are very muscular).... mine, while on dialysis, varied from 12 to 17. And every number up is 100 times worse than the last.... so I was very tired and ill all the time. Yesterday, they measured mine - 0.9! Which is incredible for a transplanted organ!

It's amazing how much better I feel. An organ transplant isn't a "cure", really - but rather a better form of treatment. And I'll take this treatment over dialysis!

Bt

Grim · Tue 02/08/2011 17:39:07

Great news! I'm happy for you:)

Dualnames · Tue 02/08/2011 17:48:44

Quote from: Grim on Tue 02/08/2011 17:39:07
Great news! I'm happy for you:)

Stop being happy and get to work! NAUUUUUUUU!!!

Tabata · Tue 02/08/2011 18:44:36

Quote from: Blackthorne on Tue 02/08/2011 16:35:16
... It's amazing how much better I feel. ...

Wonderful news!
Wish you all the best for enjoying your new life!

Grim · Tue 02/08/2011 20:12:03

Quote from: Dualnames on Tue 02/08/2011 17:48:44
Quote from: Grim on Tue 02/08/2011 17:39:07
Great news! I'm happy for you:)

Stop being happy and get to work! NAUUUUUUUU!!!

I can't work when I'm happy. Better give me some bad news, quickly!

But seriously, my girlfriend works in a renal unit. I hear this and that about kidney failure and I know how bad it is when your kidneys stop working... and I know how hard it is to get a donor. So yeah, you're a lucky lucky man. Enjoy your life!

[Cameron] · Fri 05/08/2011 10:13:20

Congrats man, happy to hear the news! Less happy than you likely are right now, but happy none the less.

voh · Fri 05/08/2011 12:38:27

When I was around 12, a severely botched diagnosis missed the fact that I had Pyelonephritis (inflammation of the 'pelvis' of the kidney - Wiki Article) and was sent home with some cold medicine. My mom, bless her heart, bypassed the GP after I wouldn't stop vomiting and just drove me to the hospital. Was in there for 3 weeks and a bit, and I was VERY lucky, the Doctor said, since kidney failure wasn't far off if I hadn't come 'round then.

Reading this I am glad of two things.

1) That you're better off and that you're feeling so much better, this is awesome and I'm really glad for you

2) That I didn't get to a similar point in my life where you used to be.

Man, sorry for that, bit off-topic, but reading this topic brought all that back. I am SO glad we changed doctors when we did

Blackthorne · Fri 05/08/2011 19:10:18

No, you're very lucky Voh! Kidney problems are often undiagnosed, or dismissed as other things because any kind of kidney disease produces lots of symptoms - which are often diagnosed seperately, not as part of an overall nephrotic condition! You are lucky to have changed doctors - GP's often miss kidney problems. Mine did. I'd been feeling awful for years, having weird colds, and giant problems with my mood, attitude and lethargy.... I was diagnosed as depressed, ADD, high blood pressure.... etc. It wasn't until I went to my doctor with my eyesight gone (I was rendered blind because my blood pressure was so high from failing kidneys that blood vessels in my eyes burst) and a BP of 220/180 that they rushed me to the hospital. They did an ultrasound on my abdomen and discovered my kidneys were so atrophied, they barely showed up. I was put on dialysis that night. The nephrologist estimated that I'd been suffering from kidney disease for years, and it went undiagnosed until the point that it killed my kidneys and almost killed me.

Have your doctor check the protein levels in your urine, and get your creatinine and BUN levels checked with a blood test by your doctor. It should be routine, but it's not always.

Bt

Domino · Sat 06/08/2011 01:13:36

Congratulations!! Hope You Live a Long and Healthy Life.

Best Wishes,
Domino