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@contentandwell For kidney patients, they measure the amount of creatinine in your blood. Then they use a formula that takes into consideration your creatinine level, you age, your gender, and your race to calculate your GFR. Your GFR has to be below 20 to qualify for a transplant. For the last 3 years, my GFR has been in the 10-17 range. My doctors are surprised that I am not on dialysis yet.
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@marvinjsturing With those numbers I’m surprised if you are not near the top of the list. I hope you hear something very soon from the transplant center of your choice. The wait was hard for a liver but kidney patients wait so much longer it must be torture.
Take care.
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@marvinjsturing Once my husband found out about his kidney disease [due to high blood pressure], through medication and lifestyle he kept off dialysis for 5 years. His dr told him it was coming and readied him for PD dialysis, placing the graft at 13%. He went dialysis at 10%, was on PD dialysis for 5.5 years then got his transplant 1 Oct 2016, at his second transplant center. He had double-listed.
Ginger [my GFR is 32% right now]