Kidney Disease / Kidney Failure

[Violet Star]

Can anyone give me any details about more severe quick onset kidney disease/ failure? Or what experiences you have had/ know of?

Do all severe cases end up in dialysis?

[Catastrophic]

Depending on the cause of it. Yes. Send me a pm with more details.


Cat xox

[Violet Star]

I tried to reply to you but it says you dont accept PM messages/

[Phteven]

Depends on whether both kidneys are involved. My sister had her dodgy kidney taken out and she's been ok since then. I'm just hoping it stays that way because I don't want her eyeing off one of mine.

[chepie]

Depends on what causes the disease... my mum was born with renal reflux - where the urine doesn't empty properly through the urethra and goes back up into the kidney and they other time begin to fail.....she eventually went onto dialysis for a year and half then a friend of hers gave her a kidney!! Mum would't let me do it because of my kids...

Oops I just re-read your question - no hers wasn't quick onset, but things changed very quickly ...

Hope all is ok xox

[~StarBright~]

My oldest sister had issues with her kidneys when she was about 2 years old... I wasnt born then, but I know there was some hospital stays etc, but they never knew exactly what was wrong. She then went years with no issues what so ever at all until she was about 18 and she started retaining fluid and getting really tired. Mum said she recognised the "look" she had (all puffy etc) and took her to the dr where she was told that both her kidneys had failed. She was immediately put on dialysis (sp??) and with a week she was being flown to Sydney to get her permanent shunt (I think thats what its called, the loop thing that they put in you for the tubes to get attached to fot the dialysys).
Mum and Dad opted for her to have home Dialysis, so we had to get plumbing etc installed at the house and a machine and all the bits and peices that go with it (most important was a comfy chair for my sister to sit in!!!) She was in sydney for a few months I think from memory having dialysis at the hospital there- (luckily we had relatives she could stay with there!!!) and she was learning everything she had to to be able to do it all at home, while we got home prepared for her to be able to do it there.

Once she got home, she was on the machine for 8 hours a day I think three days a week or something like that. Eventually Dad gave her one of his kidneys which she has had for just over 10 years now.

I hope all is ok with you xoxoxxo