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On my morning walk, I walked with a recently retired, cardiac surgeon. I asked him about somebody being on dialysis to resolve blood pressure problems. He could not understand how dialysis could have anything to do with your actual blood pressure. Dialysis has a lot of risks and you have to have ports for it in your body.
He thought you had some other problem that required dialysis and that ended up stabilizing your blood pressure.
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I had untreated HBP for a long time and I also had a case of psudo gout that was very painful. Doctor at the time had me take Advil, recommended dosage times 2. Add a stressful career and an ignored HBP while in the Navy and a scan at Mayo that never should have happened given my kidney health at the time. Without going into detail, the doctor at mayo said he never would have ordered that scan with my kidneys.
So what needs to said to other posters here, is that I am soooo tired with dialysis that if hormone treatment made me ever more tired, I have to say no. If they find cancer, thats a different story. I am not willing to destroy what quality of life I have to indefinitely suppress what can’t be found.
A friends brother has had multiple biopsy’s and scans over a period of 17 years and no cancer was ever found. So what do we all do if we're in that situation??
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Jeff, uncontrolled HBP causes severe kidney damage leading to kidney failure.
Perhaps he thought that the dialysis was being used to actually TREAT the HBP, which makes no sense.
Unfortunately, many HBP meds actually cause kidney damage. I watched my own kidney function steadily decline on 3 different meds - all which used the kidneys to regulate BP. My physician wasn’t concerned….
I demanded one which did not target the kidneys, but the smooth muscle of the arteries. Kidney function (GFR) zoomed back up to normal.
A dear friend is facing dialysis right now because of being on the same drug I was on for 10 yrs.