I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Introduction => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: LifeOnHold on August 11, 2005, 12:11:30 AM
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I started dialysis in 1988, when I was 23. I had had a baby in 1982, with lots of complications that ended up overloading my kidneys.
In the summer of 1988 I had been getting really nauseous and vomiting at work, but I thought it was the flu since I felt better in air-conditioning. When I couldn't even hold down water, I went to the doctor and was told that I needed to start dialysis as soon as possible. After getting a graft (OW!) I started dialysis a week later. It was a real nightmare-- crashing, cramping, vomiting. I got a transplant from my mother, but it only lasted 3 years. Then I was on PD for 3 years, but after a lot of peritonitis, I had to go back to hemo. I have been on in-center hemo for the past ten years.
I have outlived almost all of the patients I started hemo with... with a death rate of about 21 percent per year, you'd figure everyone should be dead in five or six years, but here I am! :)
(You might also remember me from the Dialysis Online website... my name there is Mars)
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I started dialysis in 1988, when I was 23. I had had a baby in 1982, with lots of complications that ended up overloading my kidneys.
In the summer of 1988 I had been getting really nauseous and vomiting at work, but I thought it was the flu since I felt better in air-conditioning. When I couldn't even hold down water, I went to the doctor and was told that I needed to start dialysis as soon as possible. After getting a graft (OW!) I started dialysis a week later. It was a real nightmare-- crashing, cramping, vomiting. I got a transplant from my mother, but it only lasted 3 years. Then I was on PD for 3 years, but after a lot of peritonitis, I had to go back to hemo. I have been on in-center hemo for the past ten years.
I have outlived almost all of the patients I started hemo with... with a death rate of about 21 percent per year, you'd figure everyone should be dead in five or six years, but here I am! :)
(You might also remember me from the Dialysis Online website... my name there is Mars)
I'm glad your here, I hope we can recruit more members here since I think this forum is more easy to navigate. "Dialysis Online" is a great site but I think it is hard to navigate on. Spread the word about this place. :)
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I don't know, the spam on the Nephrologists board over there is pretty amusing... I never knew there were so many Asian Babe Dating Sites! :D