• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    we can go years without peeing before transplant

    I’m sure I’m passing this sentence wrong, but I cannot work it out. It sounds like you’re saying that sometimes people don’t pee until they’ve had a transplant.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
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      Yup, that’s what I’m saying.

      You can lose the ability to pee with kidney failure.

      And your health goes down drastically once you do

      When I started dialysis, I could still work and such. But I could also still pee.

      After about 2 years, I lost the ability completely, and that’s when physical activity became harder, because the water removal fluctuations became harsher with dialysis.

      Then I moved to Finland, which has hemodiafiltration instead of only hemodialysis like the USA, and got much better again.