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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: Fox_nc on October 11, 2006, 06:39:14 AM

Title: I have ankles again!
Post by: Fox_nc on October 11, 2006, 06:39:14 AM

Just wanted to share the good news!  My kidney started failing months ago and my first sign something was going on was swollen ankles.  I have been on dialysis since 9/11 and they have been struggling to find my dry weight.   But, we've about found it (15 lbs lower than they thought it was).  Over the last month I had about given up on having cute ankles again.  They were like little piggies on the end of my legs with sausage toes.  I couldn't wear most of my shoes and any fluid at all would make them balloon even more.  But now!  Woo Hoo!  They are back!  I can even wear my anklet again.  Painted my toes and everything!  It's amazing what little things make you feel "normal."


 :clap;

Title: Re: I have ankles again!
Post by: Black on October 11, 2006, 08:08:30 AM

 :2thumbsup; Congrats!

Title: Re: I have ankles again!
Post by: Sara on October 11, 2006, 08:10:01 AM

What a great feeling!

Title: Re: I have ankles again!
Post by: vandie on October 11, 2006, 08:14:14 AM

Oh, how nice.   :clap;
Very happy for you

Title: Re: I have ankles again!
Post by: goofynina on October 11, 2006, 10:14:03 AM

ankles? what are ankles?  I have heard of them but dont quite know what they are,,, lol, just messin, yes, i know EXACTLY how you feel Foxy, my feet were so bad, i couldnt even wear shoes, i had to wear bootie socks with the ends cut around my ankles, thats how bad i had it  :-\  but i have my ankles back too  :2thumbsup;

Title: Re: I have ankles again!
Post by: Epoman on October 11, 2006, 01:26:01 PM

 :thumbup; I'm glad to hear things are getting better.

Title: Re: I have ankles again!
Post by: Rerun on October 11, 2006, 04:12:46 PM

My ankles are the first to flood too.  It is funny how they check my ankles at the beginning of dialysis, but not at the end. 

At the beginning if there is fluid, the they should check at the end to see if it is gone.  Don't ya think??

Title: Re: I have ankles again!
Post by: Fox_nc on October 11, 2006, 05:45:50 PM

You would think.  There for a while I was wearing clam-diggers and sandals and at the end of my sessions would point them out.  "Look at my piggies?  Why do I still have piggies?  This isn't NORMAL"  I"m not exactly a small girl and I think they just thought I had fat feet.  Luckily I finally got my point across. :-)

Title: Re: I have ankles again!
Post by: Bear on October 12, 2006, 05:24:49 PM

 :cuddle;   Ha!!!!  Yes I know this feeling.....I must've been going thru IgAn for well over a decade. My first hospitalisation was
 in '94 with high (270/15) b.p. Years of medication......finally ESRF in late '03/early '04.  So.....in all that time & even earlier, I had
 'straight-down' 'fatted'  calves.  ;)   ::)
 Some months ago ( I came back to work in Jan), a colleague said "You've got ankles again! You haven't had ankles for years!!!"  ::)  ;D

Title: Re: I have ankles again!
Post by: Bajanne on October 12, 2006, 06:16:54 PM

I also know the feeling.  I too now have ankles!  Wearing closed in shoes to school again!