I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Introduction => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: roybear on March 25, 2006, 04:37:19 PM
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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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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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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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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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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.
- Epoman
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