I guess I forgot to introduce myself before I started posting...so here goes. I am 20 years old and I live in Canada. Im currently enrolled in University and I'm in 2nd year. Im taking a BScH in LifeSciences but dont ask me what i want to do after that, because I have no idea. My "kidney" story is as follows: when I was about 4 I got sick and my urine became coke coloured. So i went to the hospital and they didnt know what it was from so i stayed there for a week or so. They then sent me to a nephrologist at a childrens hospital where they did some tests but still couldnt come up with an explanation. eventually they thought it was Nephritis, then IGA Neprhopathy, so they did a kidney biopsy and turned up negative. so then it became some Hemoturia or childhood or something stupid like that. basically i had protein in my urine. When I was 15 or 16 i cant really remember, the Univ. of Utah approached my doctor with a genetics test for Alports Syndrome. they tested my family and it came back positive. so finally they figured out what was wrong with me. So i got some eye tests and hearing tests done (alports can screw your hearing and sight) and they came back fine. so they assumed that it wasnt really going to affect me until much later in life. So i went to univ. last year and around exam time i started feeling like crap. i was always cold and nauseous in the morning...i chalked it up to exam stress..well things got worse so when i went home for christmas break i got some blood work done, low and behold my kidneys had failed...(and my Hemoglobin was 38) so this was a HUGE shocker...and so i stated dialysis and then went back to school after the christmas break. i guess thats about it...
and this is in the wrong thread...damn
Hyperlite, I saved you. I moved your post to the correct section. 
Rerun
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