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lynnrlpd1
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« on: August 23, 2012, 11:45:14 AM »
I'm an om 3rd permacath and about to get 4th and to start on Coumadin. They tried activase but just for 30 minutes is there not anything else to try to declot so I dont have to get another one
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Why do bad things always happen to good people?
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2012, 06:17:52 PM »
You should get a fistula if possible.  I had a perma-cath in for almost a whole year and the used to flush it hard like a plunger in a toilet and it use to make my heart flutter.  They really are pain besides the high chance of infection.
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"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
   -Walter Bagehot
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December 2003 diagnosed with IgA Nephropathy 80% Function.
October 2004 started In-Center Hemo Dialysis Perma-Cath 5% Function.
September 2005 Living Related Donor (Mother) Transplant.
March 2009 Diagnosed CKD and IgA Nephropathy.
August 2009 Upper Left Arm Fistula.
November 2009 started In-Center Hemo Dialysis.
December 2010 started Home Hemo Dialysis.
January 2012 went back to In-Center Hemo Dialysis.
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