I wonder

[GoingThere]

how many transplanted kidney patients walk around the world not knowing they have some sort of a mild acute kidney rejection that slowly progresses to chronic rejection?
If I would return for a retest on Friday instead on Thursday, they would send me home and creatinine levels up would be officially sign to a dehydration.
But because I came to give blood one day before they did a kidney biopsy and found mild cellular rejection probably "left over" from my original acute rejection.
Sometimes I really feel there is someone watching on me.

I've just completed my 5 pulses of prednisone and my creatinine levels are first time under 2.0. Very happy!

GT

[kit78]

That's awesome!

[okarol]

It's true. Jenna's biopsy came back as chronic rejection after a spike up in her creatinine. If it had been caught earlier it might have had better results.
Glad to hear you're doing better!! 

[Speedy1wrc]

When each my kidney and pancreas failed the Dr's told me it was due to chronic rejection. Apparently it had been going on for some time, but no one bothered to let me know till they were both shot. The only solace I got was "at least you're still alive".

[Riki]

I knew my last kidney was rejecting a year before anybody else bothered to look.  I had intense pain over the kidney that felt like my insides were turning inside out.  Nobody would listen to me.  They told me that the pain was all in my head, because they couldn't see anything on ultrasound.  I'm thinking that if they had biopsied, they would have found something, but they didn't do that until it was too late to do anything.