Headaches

[Lillupie]

I have a really good friend of mine waiting for a Pancreas/kidney transplant (is not online) has a severe headache. I personally take Advil or Excedrin. (I know we are not suspose to).

I was wondering do anyone here knows what as kidney patients we are legally able to take and be ok?

Lisa

[Lisa]

I was told only Tylenol or something prescribed by a doctor and then, make sure your neph ok's the meds.. Also if she is dialysing, make sure it is a drug that doesn't get filtered out during treatments.

[monrein]

Tylenol is all I've been told is OK.  If your friend doesn't have a history of migraines and the pain is very severe, she should perhaps call her doctor to rule out anything more serious. If it's a post-dialysis headache...I used to have to just go to bed with tylenol and the next day was usually better.

[sullidog]

Tylenol is the only ting I'm aloud. Does this happen all the time? If it's post dialysis I am having the same issue so my neph is adjusting my sodium profile, not sure what he called it but he's running me 2 and half with hier sodium and then last hour running it normal. He says that helps with post-dialysis headaches.
Troy

[monrein]

The sodium profiling works for some but for me it was dreadful.  So thirsty afterwards I could have gone mad.  I was dialyzing 5 days a week, two and a half hours at a time but would have asked for longer sessions, if I hadn't had a transplant in the works, since longer sessions gets at the larger molecules much more effectively.

[paris]

Only tylenol.  Every doctor I have seen says the same thing.

[kitkatz]

I was told by a dialysis nurse to take what works for me.  I have taken Excedrin only when the pain was so bad I knew that was the only thing that would help a little bit.