How long have you lived with CKD?

[CW]

Thanks for the response everyone hearing all your stories e is encouraging. I can sincerely say that I hope we all live to a ripe old age, have the pleasure of seeing our loved ones succeed in life and have some fun along the way. May the God of your choice bless you all!

[Bajanne]

I ignored a doctor's concern about the state of my kidneys in June 2004.  It was a doctor here in the BVI and I was about to go to Barbados for my summer vacation.  I told him I would check with my doctor in Barbados.  But once there..... (and I was not feeling ill in any way) you know.
Then I had some really bad feeling the next year.  I found I would be puffing and panting after only about three steps up the stairs at school. then one afternoon in Sept, it was so bad, my daughter took me to the hospital.  I was admitted suffering from congestive heart failure and fluid in my lungs.  they fixed that but announced that I only had 15% renal function.
So, I started dialysis in September 2005, but thankfully, I found IHD just before I started!!!
THREE YEARS THIS SEPTEMBER!!

[RichardMEL]

I was diagnosed in 1993, so that's 15 years ago give or take.. though they believe I first "got" CKD when I was an infant, so let's say around the age of 2... so that's 36 years.....

[pastorb]

hey my name is Brenda.   I am new 2 this site.  i was n kidney failure 5 years before being diagnosed with ESRD.  I have been on dialysis since november 2007.  only about 8 months.