Why so many mobility issues?

[kickingandscreaming]

I have been in in-center Hemo for about a month.  It's seems like almost every patient there has some kind of mobility issue:  use a cane, have a prosthetic limb, use a walker or a wheelchair or they have a strange mincing gait.  I only have experience in this clinic, so I have a limited frame of refernce.  A lot of the people in my clinic are older, not not all by any means.  I, too, am older (74) but have no mobility issues.  Yet.  I'm starting to wonder if this is in my future.  I realize the CKD is now being called CKD-BMD (Bone Mineral Disorder), so if this what I'm seeing?

It's very discouraging to think it's only a matter of time before I can't walk either.  Am I seeing something universal?  Or idiosyncratic to my clinic?

[Michael Murphy]

My guess is you have to look at the underlying cause that caused the CKD a large percentage of the patients where I go suffer with diabetes.  One of the side effects of diabetes involves the loss of limbs,  in addition many patients are elderly,  I don't me in their 70's but late 80's and in their 90's.  With age comes mobility issues.  Basically the population on Dialysis is not the healthiest.  Remember. That there is a 92 year old still playing hockey with 40 and 50 year olds.  Everyone is different.  Enjoy your current mobility it may last you a long time.

[Simon Dog]

Correlation != causation