What month of the year did you start dialysis?

[SheilaW]

I'm just curious here.  During which month (of whatever year you started) did you start dialysis?

[stauffenberg]

I have always been quite interested in the epidemiology of when diseases first present for diagnosis or when their initial onset takes place.  It is well-established, for example, that babies born in February, and indeed at any time from very late Winter to early Spring, grow up to have a much higher than normal rate of schizophrenia.  Babies which eventually become type 1 diabetics are known to be more likely to be born at a certain month in Iceland, which has been explained by the fact that at a critical period in gestation when the immune system is being formed, these mothers traditionally eat a certain meat dish heavy in phosphates.  Type 1 diabetes itself most commonly presents in the Fall, since it is brought to expression when the Fall viruses send the weak immune system of these patients into overdrive so that it destroys the beta cells of the pancreas.

I would guess that renal failure as well is disproportionately diagnosed in the Fall, when either the added stress of dealing with a virus finally pushes the patient into endstage renal failure, or when an auto-immune disease causing renal failure is sparked by a reaction to some viral infection.

[Stacy Without An E]

For whatever reason, I remember exactly when I started Dialysis: May 16, 2004 @ 7pm.  Over the years I've noticed that I've blanked out most of the traumatic events from my Dialysis past and I rarely dwell on the memories that remain.

At some point you can't dwell on your misery and you just have to let it go or it will eat you alive.

[jbeany]

December 13, 2006.  I have to know the start date because they ask it every time I sign in the hospital for a procedure, so that one is going to stick in my head like my SS number.

I started in December, but my doc wanted me on in August.  I stalled!

[Adam_W]

I started on Jan. 25 '07, just a couple weeks after my 25th birthday. Some birthday present, eh?

Adam

[Ang]

june  26 2006,  it  took  approximately  10  years  to  get  to  this point (polisystic  kidneys)

[goofynina]

Ambulance came and got me from my moms house on September 8, 2003 and that is the day i started 

[kitkatz]

November 2, 1998!

[keefer51]

Thanksgiving day novenber 23, 2004.

[KT0930]

October 8, 2006. Two days after I got home from my honeymoon in Jamaica (I was too sick to enjoy the all-you-can-drink and all-you-can-eat resort!!).

[Ken Shelmerdine]

Late September 2006 I thought it was the end of the world.

[angela515]

April 1999, through the ER. Second time around it was again April, but the year 2004.

[boxman55]

After 2 nites of throwing up, Drove to the ER, dragged myself in, spent 5 days in the ICU, started dialysis in the hospital on 8/14/06...Boxman

[Krisna]

After I was initially diagnosed in 1979, I started in January 1980.

After transplant #1 rejected, September 1988.

After transplant #2 rejected, January 24, 1994.

After transplant #3 was removed nine wks after transplant date due to infection December 21, 1996.

After transplant #4 rejected, September 6, 2002.

[pdpatty]

March 26,2007(I think) on Pd ,then when that failed,June 26 2007 for hemo.

[KR Cincy]

1st dialysis treatment: March 24, 2007, the day after my second radical nephrectomy...done in hospital...had 3 treatments there before going in center March 31, 2007.

Most of that time is pretty hazy because of the meds I was on, but it does seem like a long time ago...<sigh>

[oswald]

the first time around was nov. 26 1996.  the second time around was in june of 1997.  the third time was in march of 2005.  i hope and pray that there ain't no 4th time.

[Marvin]

First time  -- March 30, 1995 --the saddest day of my life (to that point)
Kidney transplant (from my wife) on July 26, 2000 (happy, happy day)
Second time on hemo -- October 21, 2003 -- the saddest day of my life (to that point)
Home hemo -- August 13, 2007 (happy, happy day)