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« on: March 25, 2006, 04:37:19 PM »
I have been on dialysis for a little over 3yrs.  I started in December on 2002.  I used to read the
Dialysis Message Board by Brumley,  but they seem to "have gone out of business".   

I live in the middle Georgia area, my dialysis facility is privately owned by the nephrologist,
BUT, it is run by DaVita.

I am currently 47yrs old. I was born with 1 functioning kidney, one kidney did not fully develop.
I assume it never worked at all.  I have ALWAYS had high blood pressure, and the one "good"
kidney finally got overworked.  I still make quite alot of urine. 

I dialyize 3days per week at 5.25hrs per treatment.  I am a very large person. 
I am 5'8" and my dry weight is 171kilo's.

I am very glad to find this board.  It helps to know that there are some folks going through the same
stuff as myself. 

I wish some of these bio-tech companies would get off their a** and perfect an alternate treatment to
dialysis.  BMP-7 comes to mind, but "Ortho-Biotech" is just sitting on the technology. 

Anyway, that is my introduction.  I will post more as time goes by.
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« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2006, 07:46:54 PM »
Roybear,

Welcome to the site.  5.25 hours?  That must drive you insane!  Sounds like you have a lot of experience and a lot to share.  Please come here to post and vent your frustrations.
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« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2006, 08:43:37 AM »
Welcome to the site.  I'm glad you found us.  I know you will not regret it.  What is BMP-7?
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« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2006, 01:02:20 PM »
http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/19/4/759 Check out site on BMP-7 . sounds intressting. and welcome to the site.
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« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2006, 10:31:09 PM »
Welcome roybear, I'm glad you found us and I'm sure you will be glad you did. Yeah "Brumley" went down but I never did like how their site was set up. It was to hard to read messages, they are ONE of the reasons I started this site. Again Welcome.

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