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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: KICKSTART on April 14, 2008, 07:10:29 AM

Title: What colour are you ?
Post by: KICKSTART on April 14, 2008, 07:10:29 AM

My face looks decidedly 'yellow' today ..anyone else ?

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: Deanne on April 14, 2008, 08:03:29 AM

I'm a bit red. It was a beautiful, sunny weekend.

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: stauffenberg on April 14, 2008, 08:18:49 AM

A 'game' played by cruel medical students is to try to guess which patients waiting in a clinic have renal disease on the basis of their distinctive skin color, which has been described as varying between tan and muddy green.  I find it is much worse in patients who have had a failed transplant and returned to dialysis, although this may just indirectly measure the patients who have had renal disease longer.  I used to be perfectly white, even too pale, but recently one of my friends commented that it wasn't like me to be visiting a tanning studio -- but of course I hadn't!

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: st789 on April 14, 2008, 08:24:30 AM

Sun tan.

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: boxman55 on April 14, 2008, 08:27:06 AM

people tell me I look healthy I guess it is because of the somewhat tan look I have...Boxman

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: twirl on April 14, 2008, 08:55:52 AM

tan

it's that dialysis after glow :shy;

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: oleboy on April 14, 2008, 10:02:26 AM

GREEN with envy I just wish I had a tan :2thumbsup;

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: paddbear0000 on April 14, 2008, 02:03:17 PM

Tan? What in the he** is tan? I'm white year round!

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: AlasdairUK on April 14, 2008, 02:34:46 PM

well the vitamin D I was on gave me a tanned glow.

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: Sunny on April 14, 2008, 02:49:34 PM

I always have a tan ruddy looking face. I think it reflects my kidney disease. Sometimes my lips are even blue.

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: monrein on April 14, 2008, 02:50:51 PM

 Before I had my first transplant I was yellowish at times and grey at times.  Now that I'm facing dialysis again maybe I'll be green this time around. Wow, always something to look forward to. At the moment I'm quite white and washed out looking but I cover it with makeup.  Faking it as long as I can.

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: twirl on April 14, 2008, 03:44:14 PM

maybe I'll be green this time around     ( don't know how to get a partial quote)

you will be pretty no matter what color you turn

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: paddbear0000 on April 14, 2008, 03:52:40 PM

Quote from: twirl on April 14, 2008, 03:44:14 PM

maybe I'll be green this time around     ( don't know how to get a partial quote)

Just hit the Quote button, then delete the words that you don't want from between the first and last lines of code. Don't delete those 2 lines tho, or you'll mess it up! Sorry, I tried giving you an example, but I ended up with those purple boxes when I posted it!

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: monrein on April 14, 2008, 03:54:09 PM

 :thx; :thx; :thx;  Not everyone can appreciate the charms of being green (or swollen or whatever).  Thank goodness we have each other.

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: twirl on April 14, 2008, 03:59:13 PM

maybe I'll be green this time around     ( don't know how to get a partial quote)

    is this right and thank you     should it be purple    purple is pretty

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: twirl on April 14, 2008, 04:02:41 PM

another reason to love dialysis
we turn tan without paying for a tanning booth or baking in the sun
look at the tanning money we are saving
we are the lucky ones
like being on a vacation ::)

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: Ohio Buckeye on April 15, 2008, 12:29:01 PM

That's funny.  Just yesterday my sister-in-law took me to the dialyskis clinic
for my monthly appt. and after we left she said did you notice the lady I was talking to had
the oddest color of skin.  I said no I didn't notice who she was talking to, was she a patient?
She said yes. 

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: paris on April 15, 2008, 03:03:16 PM

Not long ago, I told Beth that I just felt like I looked yellow.  I thought maybe I just needed to get some sun, but I guess this is just another side effect.  When I look at recent pictures vs. 2 years ago, I can tell my skin tone has changed.   So many things they don't tell you about!

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: angellady07 on April 17, 2008, 03:30:37 AM

I fall into the yellow category. I wish I had the dialysis after glow. 

Title: Re: What colour are you ?
Post by: jbeany on April 17, 2008, 09:49:32 AM

I'm Maybelline Fair, with a sheer bronze blush!

Seriously, I'm mostly just pale.  I don't tan well.  I was a bit yellowy before I started dialysis, but that's cleared up now that I'm on home hemo.