Copper14

When my kidneys failed I retained a ton of fluid and was extemely tired, slept a lot. I was on dialysis for 8 months before testing was finalized with my mom as a donor. The second time when my transplant failed it was the same symptoms, except that I constantly had gout from high uric acid levels in my blood. It all just sucked. I was one of the unlucky few who had the IGA nephropathy return and attack my transplant. I had a lot of complications on dialysis the second time, clots and seizures, so that delayed my transplant for a year and a half. But now I’m 30 and I finally feel amazing and like a normal human again! I got very lucky with this newest transplant. Life is great

That’s what I have too. Congrats on the new kidney! Such exciting times. I am 34 and on my second transplant, 5 years going strong for this one! Have fun with the new lease on life!

In my case my kidneys failed at 19 because of a kidney disease called IGA nephropathy. The doctors have no idea what causes it, I was just super unlucky. I ended up being even more unlucky when the same disease attacked my new transplant when I was 27, and I have been on dialysis again and had another transplant since then. Some people are just unlucky

I did this as well, the doctors said if I changed to a kidney friendly diet and took the recommended pills I would have 3 extra years before ending up on dialysis. It never even crossed my mind to be non compliant

I do! The one in my left lower abdomen is from 2010 and unfortunately the IgA nephropathy hit it immediately after transplant when I was 19 and lasted 5 years. The one of the right side is 2017 and just doing amazing! Took a long time to stop worrying about the second one, but it just keeps standing its ground