Just Curious - Age Question

[Gilly]

  I'm 80 and just started ccpd 3 months ago.  I didn't realize how fortunate I am. But after seeing how many started at such a young age I guess I'd better never complain.
Gilly 

[mallory]

I'm 49 and not on dialysis yet, but I'm close.

[angieskidney]

I started dialysis (PD) when I was 16! Yes a youngin like Fox and Shades and Alasdair!

I had a transplant when I was 16 as well and it lasted 11 years! Now I have been back on dialysis since 2001! PD for 4 uneventful years until the very bad Peritonitis last summer .. now have been on Hemo since then and there is no Home Hemo in my city yet.  I am now 32 until Nov!

[Budman]

I'm 21 now, but started in center hemo when I was 18, but it seem like forever ago!

[tubes]

Diagnosed w/ kidney failure at 14.  Started hemo at 16 about 4 months later started PD.  Alittle over a yr ago started hemo again.  So I've been doing dialysis for 10 yrs. now.  How old am I ? ? ? ? ?    

[kitkatz]

You are 102!

[tubes]

You are 102!

Ooooh so close! ! ! ! 

[mmmmdeedee]

I am an immature 43 years old! Diagnosed with lupus at 16, kidney failure around 23, dialysis for 5 years until they ran out of spots to put shunts, and transplanted kidney from my sister in 1990. That lasted 16 years and ran out this last may due to a bad bowl of Chinese Chicken corn chowder. Went directly onto ccpd.

Going through the testing now for another transplant from my brother. Fortunately I had six siblings in which to gleen body parts!

Good to see so many people my age. Makes me really realize that I am not alone not a special patient!

[Jill D.]

Not on Dialysis but diagnosed FSGS May 2006. I am 44 yrs old.

Hey Sluff - always interested in hearing from someone else with FSGS. I was diagnosed with FSGS in 1990, at the age of 28. Started dialysis in April 2006. Scheduled for a transplant December 5, 2006. This year I am definitely getting the ultimate Christmas gift from my sister!

I am currently 43, but only days away from 44!

[Riki]

I'm 28 and am on PD.. was never on hemo

started when I was 12, was transplanted at 14.. that last 8 years.. started dialysis again at 22, got another kidney 8 days before my 23rd brithday. was only on dialysis for a month... that one last me 3 years... start dialysis again 3 days before my 26th birthday, and have been on ever since... I'm on the list, and I'm hoping my number will be called any time now.. *G*

[angieskidney]

I'm 28 and am on PD.. was never on hemo

started when I was 12, was transplanted at 14.. that last 8 years.. started dialysis again at 22, got another kidney 8 days before my 23rd brithday. was only on dialysis for a month... that one last me 3 years... start dialysis again 3 days before my 26th birthday, and have been on ever since... I'm on the list, and I'm hoping my number will be called any time now.. *G*

wow good luck!  3 by the time you are 23? I have heard as you get more and more that they last less time each time. But I guess that should be a new thread, eh?

[Riki]

I've only had 2... I'm waiting on the 3rd... but yeah, the more you get, the hard it is for them to take... after my last one, they have me a drug that's supposed to kill the immune system.. forget what it's called... I think it builds back up, but with the antirjection, shouldn't attack the kidney.... didn't work for me, though.. *L*

[Jaybird]

I was diagnosed at age 23 and started dialysis at age 27. I put it off as long as possible. I dreaded the needle! After starting it, I found out it still sucks! But, you gotta do what you gotta do!

Jaybird

[jbeany]

36 in two weeks.  Due to start dialysis within the month.  Seems like there are lots of younger people on here - but given that this is the net, not all that surprising.  (Not many in the 70 and older age group who spend much time surfing, I think.)

[Stacy Without An E]

My history with the menacing and debilitating entity known as Dialysis dates back to 1983 when I was a young and naive twelve years old.  It was in this dark and glloomy hospital room just off the UCSF Pediatric Kidney Clinic.  I only had two treatments before my first transplant and I remember my Mom being really disappointed because she thought I would look and feel better.  The kidney was from my Mom and it lasted for 12 1/2 years.

In 1995 I had to quit my first radio job and move back home with my parents for six months while they prepared my baby sister to give me a transplant in January of 1996.  That kidney failed in May of 2004 and I've been on Dialysis ever since.

So if you do the math and add up my time cumulatively, I've been on for 39 months.  I work a full time job and a part time while enduring Dialysis.

Some days I think I'm amazing.  Days like today, not so much.

[Ohio Buckeye]

A full-time job, part-time job and dialysis!
That is prettty amazing!
I'm sorry you are having a bad day!
Hope you feel better soon.

[angela515]

I was diagnosed with Lupus (SLE) at age 12, kidney failure at age 15. Had chemo and my kidneys started working again, age 18 kidnes failed again, started hemo in April 1999. Had my first transplant from my mom in Dec 1999. It lasted until April 2004, I started hemo again, then after a yr of hemo I switched to PD, and I am currently on PD waiting for a call for a transplant. Im 27, but I turn 28 this month 

[Fox_nc]

This question was posed on another post, so I thought I'd  and let some of our newer members take the poll.

[brenda]

I started dialysis when I was 30, now 43. No transplants or anything, just plane old hemo.

[renal30yrs]

First time I was ever dialyzed was when I was 13.  Started regular HD when I was 17. Had a transplant that lasted me for over 20 years.  Back on HD again.

[mrhecht]

First dialysis (PD for 3 yrs) at age 29......this year I will celebrate the 8th anniversary of my 39th birthday!

I've never stopped working and I raised a fabulous daughter as a single parent (now 22,was 4 when I started).

Yeah me!

[melshell]

35 here, FSGS since '91. Started peritoneal dialysis 12/06.

[MJB]

I started when I was 27, I will be 39 in June. I had 6 years of transplant living in there too.