Can you get a kidney transplant if you are diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis

[bostonboxer]

My friend has been on the kidney list for 4 years and just found out she have Multiple Sclerosis.  She doesn't know if she should tell her kidney doctor because she afraid that she will be removed from the list.  In May '07 she had a MRI and it showed 1 lesion and then you had a stroke in Nov '07 (recovered fully) and this MRI showed 3 more lesions.  Right now the doctor feels she can't be treated for the MS because to of the all the medicines she is taking for the kidneys.  My friend feel that if she can have the transplant she can have a better chance of fighting the MS then with out the transplant.  My friend would also like to enjoy her live a little more with out dialysis.  So my questions should she tell the transplant team she has MS or not?

[sisterdonor]

She has to tell her doctors.   She shouldn't even be thinking that she should or could hide something like that from them. 

[goofynina]

Definetly tell her neph, what if he prescribes something that is bad for people with MS??  That was my first thought    Good luck to your friend 

[stauffenberg]

Since the principal immunosuppressive drugs are neurotoxins, I highly doubt that they would accept someone with a neurological disease like multiple sclerosis for transplant, since the drugs would make the MS worse.  I saw one patient once in the hospital bed across from me who had developed Parkinson's Disease from excessive immunosuppression, and he was just a constantly shaking, trembling skeleton, unable to walk or speak, so I could see first-hand how damaging the neurotoxic effects of immunosuppression can be.