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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Transplant Discussion => Topic started by: KarenInWA on May 25, 2012, 01:29:48 PM
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I belong to the Living Donors Online page on Facebook, and someone there posted about how her doctors told her that her recipients native kidneys will get better now after transplant. I have never heard of such a thing, and am wondering if anyone here has? I know it's happened with some people on dialysis, but I don't know if those were mis-diagnosed cases of acute failure or what. What do you think?
KarenInWA
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I have not heard of that either... But the only way it would make sense to me if there was do really damage to the native kidneys. Such as in my case, my kidneys are just too small for my body. They still continue to filter for two years after I was placed on dialysis and then they slowly they stopped all together. So if I got a transplant, and the new kidney took over the majority of the work. That my native kidneys may begin to start to function again.
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All I know is what the tx neph told me when I asked about what would happen if I had a pre-emptive tx, and the kidney ended up never working. Would I have to go on D for the first time? She said that yes, I would because the drugs given after tx would in most cases further damage native kidneys that are already on their way out.
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And I can tell you, from the experience of a transplant patient who had acute kidney failure on her transplanted kidney due to a hematoma - my native kidneys did NOTHING for me! Not a damn thing! Lynette the injured kidney had to heal and do all the work, since those other 2 are just plain useless (and small, too, from what I understand.)
KarenInWA
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Sounds like missinformation to me.
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I don't believe this is in any way true. After my first transplant, years after, I got an ultrasound and they couldn't find my left kidney. They think once it was full of cysts it kept shrinking and it was absorbed by the body. It certainly didn't heal. (I don't have PKD; I have recessive medullary cystic kidney disease.)
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all i can say is from personal experience, my original kidneys have died and they're never coming back. :rofl;
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Did the facebook post say what her kidney failure was from? I think for most of us, the damage is irreparable.
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FSGS is scaring so I know mine aren't coming back. I think is some acute failure cases, the kidneys can function again, but chronic kidney failure is a slow death of the kidneys. (insert a trumpet playing taps) Wish they did regenerate!