Has anyone stopped dialysis because kidney function improved?

[RichardMEL]

Great results! seems to me that you doing so well on dialysis and it's really filtering those toxins out well.. and all your RRF is kicking in too. Why don't you speak to your neph about it? Doing less is great so even if nothing else changes you're clearly feeling better and your labs are great - something to be very happy about I think!

[BrandyChloe]

Good news Maker! My 1-month blood work is November 30th and I hope my numbers look as good as yours. Only difference for me is I'm on PD.

Effie

[Savemeimdtba]

Lill - my creatanine before dialysis was 11.0, then I started hemo and it hovered around 8 for those three months, once I started PD it's been steadily coming down.  It appears to be pretty much staying around 3.0-3.5.

I will talk to my nephrologist, Richard.  It's been pretty hectic there lately so we haven't been able to address any issues.  My nurse left about 3 months ago and they haven't replaced her yet... so it's people in and out all the time who don't know me and my Dr. is running around in a panic.  I don't even have the card that goes in my machine that records the dialysis data!  So, they're really not giving much care to what's going on with me at all... hopefully it'll get back to normal soon.  Luckily, I'm doing well, cause it would suck to have no nurse and having problems. 

[Jie]

My neph told me that patients with PD tend to have high creatinine values. My creatinine tends to increase over time after starting PD. Your creatinine can come down so much, maybe something happens to your kidneys.