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Transplant: No or Few Antibodies after COVID Vaccination

Transplants | Last Active: Mar 7, 2022 | Replies (193)

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Thank you @banksnc49 for sharing your covid experience! It sounds pretty terrible, but the wonderful news is you successfully made it through!!
I haven't seen the covid survival rate for transplant patients, but my understanding is that it's not guaranteed that transplants will make it through.
Did you go to your transplant hospital for care? Did they give you monoclonal antibodies and Remdesivir in addition to supplementing your oxygen?
I am thrilled to hear a successful recovery story from a transplant patient even though your experience sounds pretty awful. (I am going to try to continue to be safe, but I know there are no guarantees so I appreciate hearing your success story!)

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I started at my transplant hospital but they sent me home sick after 5 days. A home nurse was assigned to me and when she came to my house, she saw I was near death and called 911 immediately. I went by hospital to a different hospital that handled the bulk of the covid cases. I received excellent care at the second hospital. I should never have been sent home from my transplant hospital. I got terrible treatment there. I was not treated with remdisiver as I was told it could damage my kidney. Monoclonal antibody treatments were not yet available. I was treated with steroids and pain medication. They had me go through a day of physical therapy to prove I was strong enough to leave. As I said before, I had a lot of at home services which really helped. When I look back at my experience, I really see the hand of God in protecting me and my kidney.