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I’ve taken care of literally thousands of kidney failure patients. The best experiences were for those getting transplants to get OFF dialysis.
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I remember you posting that you were an anesthesiologist. If that is true, how dies that specialty equate with "taking care of literally thousands of kidney failure patients"? Were you a board-certified nephologist too? Could you define "taking care"?

tuttigym

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You have a great attitude, tutti! My lifelong experience taking care of dialysis patients does not paint a pretty picture. Most just don’t do as well as you are doing! But I have no reason to disbelieve you. Good for you!
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Do as well as he says he's doing is putting it mildly. Every dialysis patient I've ever known has been absolutely miserable because it's a miserable life getting dialysis three times a week. You just start to get over the fatigue muscle cramps nausea and dizziness and it's time for your next dialysis session. But not for Superman Tutti, for him he races with pleasure to get the treatment and goes dancing in the park afterwards.
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Hey UnevenBobby, there are 168 hours in a week. Dialysis takes up about 10% of that time leaving 90% free to do just about anything one is capable and able to do. Your snarky post reflects your shortsighted and negative world view.

tuttigym

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I have dreaded the thought of doing dialysis and told myself I won't do it. Who knows, maybe I will change my mind when the time comes. I probably still have a few years before that will come into play. I have two family members that have already volunteered to give me a kidney but they haven't been tested yet for a match. I have lived the last 47 years with one kidney, how long can I go with no kidneys?
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It is something to think about. Lots of doctors don't recommend dialysis because of the quality of life lost. Roughly 25% of people who decide to have dialysis end up having treatment regret, they wish they hadn't done it.
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Hey, UnEvenBobby, in a previous post you inferred that almost 100% of dialysis patients were leading a "miserable" life. Now you post only 25% "regret" the treatments. How about providing your expert sources, you know, a real link?

tuttigym

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Never ever trust anything the quackarooney Medical Establishment tells you without getting three or four other opinions from various sources. The current medical establishment has one thing on its mind, making money off of you. The longer they can keep you alive the more money they make. Plain and simple. They do not give one crap about how much you suffer they only care about how much your insurance company will fork over. You literally have to be your own doctor now because the medical profession stopped caring about us 40 years ago. Ever notice how the medical profession is great about treatments after you're sick but they absolutely suck to the extreme in preventing illness from happening. That's because there's no money in preventing illness But there's millions in treating it. Every doctor in the last 75 years has gotten into the profession to make money. Just ask any of the multiple ex wives most doctors have. They know the score.
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Dentists are even worse IMO

as for MDs, of the ones that aren't quacks, they are likely to be totally under the spell of the drug companies to the degree that they think their job entails being a drug dispenser
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All my current doctor does now is recommend different specialists for me to see so he doesn't have to make any decisions. Just kick it down the road, Just one more doctor for my insurance company to pay. It's a racket, I see doctors all over Youtube saying this. That's right real doctors who have real practices breaking from the norm and telling the truth on Youtube. Been watching some of them for years. I did see one of the specialists that my doctor recommended a couple of years ago and he recommended another specialist. Since then I just ignore what my doctor tells me I only go to him because of the blood work the insurance company pays for.

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I’ve taken care of literally thousands of kidney failure patients. The best experiences were for those getting transplants to get OFF dialysis.
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I remember you posting that you were an anesthesiologist. If that is true, how dies that specialty equate with "taking care of literally thousands of kidney failure patients"? Were you a board-certified nephologist too? Could you define "taking care"?

tuttigym
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They all get anesthesia for the fistula placements. And of course kidney transplants. And those fistulas don’t last forever. And they disproportionally also get vascular surgeries. The two hospitals I worked at were tertiary care so would get those type of patients frequently. I did take an advanced nephrology elective in medical school that was literally taught by ‘the guy who wrote the book’ but since that’s over 40 years ago it doesn’t mean much!

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I’ve taken care of literally thousands of kidney failure patients. The best experiences were for those getting transplants to get OFF dialysis.
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I remember you posting that you were an anesthesiologist. If that is true, how dies that specialty equate with "taking care of literally thousands of kidney failure patients"? Were you a board-certified nephologist too? Could you define "taking care"?

tuttigym
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They all get anesthesia for the fistula placements. And of course kidney transplants. And those fistulas don’t last forever. And they disproportionally also get vascular surgeries. The two hospitals I worked at were tertiary care so would get those type of patients frequently. I did take an advanced nephrology elective in medical school that was literally taught by ‘the guy who wrote the book’ but since that’s over 40 years ago it doesn’t mean much!
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That word fistula, I did not know it also means a medical procedure. I knew it as a medical condition, sometimes occurring when something bad has happened to a woman. But not as something a physician would intentionally do to you.

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I’ve taken care of literally thousands of kidney failure patients. The best experiences were for those getting transplants to get OFF dialysis.
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I remember you posting that you were an anesthesiologist. If that is true, how dies that specialty equate with "taking care of literally thousands of kidney failure patients"? Were you a board-certified nephologist too? Could you define "taking care"?

tuttigym
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They all get anesthesia for the fistula placements. And of course kidney transplants. And those fistulas don’t last forever. And they disproportionally also get vascular surgeries. The two hospitals I worked at were tertiary care so would get those type of patients frequently. I did take an advanced nephrology elective in medical school that was literally taught by ‘the guy who wrote the book’ but since that’s over 40 years ago it doesn’t mean much!
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That word fistula, I did not know it also means a medical procedure. I knew it as a medical condition, sometimes occurring when something bad has happened to a woman. But not as something a physician would intentionally do to you.
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The surgeon intentionally severs an artery and sews it directly to a vein. A-V fistula. Since there is no ‘tissue’ that the blood must serve now it flows faster and stronger. Makes it easier to get the blood to flow into the dialysis machine.

Not discussed in this thread has been the less common option of peritoneal dialysis. It also has a bunch of negatives but you don’t need to be ‘hooked up to a machine’.