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Remember to 2FA your kidneys. (mander.xyz)
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    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.

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