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Give me the NxStage System One. I will not even ask for Eculizumab. by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure I read this blog post yesterday by Sharon Whipkey about going on a holiday to Italy to her daughter's house. Sharon went with her NxStage System One, did not have to mis ... Read on »

An experiment: High flux dialyzers by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure In India, most people use low flux dialyzers. Low flux dialyzers do not give good clearances of middle molecules. Over time, these middle molecules build up in the body an ... Read on »

Heartwarming by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure At times, I go into bouts of depression; on dialysis, who doesn't? Recently, I have been grappling with the dreaded bone pain rearing it's head again. In less than two ... Read on »

Bone pain back by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure I have been having quite bad bone pain mainly in the back and my shoulders. It reminds me of the pretty severe pain I had for months a couple of years back. It is affectin ... Read on »

Planning, thinking, re-planning... by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure As you know, I am making this trip to the US and Canada this July. And one problem is the dialysis. I need to get good enough dialysis during my trip to be able to avoid h ... Read on »

And then, every once in a way, this kind of thing will happen by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure I've been starting a new pair of buttonhole sites for the last few days. Last night was the third time in the series of about five or six that it takes of cannulating with s ... Read on »

Will I be able to manage with less dialysis? by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure In July, on my trip to the US, I will be getting less than optimal dialysis. Its going to be a three week trip. I will be doing some nocturnal sessions in dialysis centers ... Read on »

There's something about grandparents by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure My grandmother (mother's mother) stays alone in a huge bungalow right next to ours. She has a Tata Sky connection. Left to herself she would have much rather continued her c ... Read on »

My experiments with bread by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Ever since my parents brought home a bread maker from the US last year, I have been experimenting with different types of breads. Bread makers really make your job easy. A ... Read on »

A small tweak to my dialysis schedule by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure I dialyze six nights a week, about seven hours each night. I take Sundays off. I swim six days a week in the morning. Wednesdays, the pool is closed for maintenanc ... Read on »

With Heparin on Dialysis, you need to strike a balance by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure First off, why do we use heparin during dialysis? During dialysis, as you might be aware, the blood goes out of the body to be filtered through the artificial kidney. N ... Read on »

Pump up your dialysis speed! by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure One of the most important factors in the quality of your dialysis is the dialysis pump speed. This is the speed at which the dialysis machine draws blood from your arteria ... Read on »

Hope on the horizon for dialysis patients: Clinical trials begin on the WAK by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure There is some very exciting and unexpected news for us dialysis patients! Dr. Victor Gura's Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK) is soon going to be undergoing clinical trials ... Read on »

Dialysis pricing conundrum by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Should dialysis prices be high or low? A simple question like this can confound nuts like me! As a patient, I feel pricing should be as low as possible. It is, as it is ... Read on »

The winds continued to blow, the sun continued to shine by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure The guy in the car at the traffic signal continued to honk. People continued to rush to work. Not one thing changed because Chandrashekhar died. The smiling 20-somet ... Read on »

NephroPlus comes to Bangalore by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure NephroPlus launched its first center at Bangalore in Koshy's Hospital in Ramamurthy Nagar. The unit has come out really nice and we feel it is one of our best units so ... Read on »

Blood Pressure on Dialysis: How low is too low? by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Like most other folks on dialysis, when I was initially diagnosed with kidney disease, my Blood Pressure (BP) would skyrocket. I was put on a potent cocktail of anti-hyper ... Read on »

Bangalore Diary by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Andhera Pradesh? I had to take the 8:35 a.m. flight to Bengaluru. Seems like a reasonable time. However, for someone on daily nocturnal dialysis, it can be a litt ... Read on »

Do you use a pill box? by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure Someone on dialysis usually takes a lot of medicines! For the longest time, during life with CKD, I never used a pill box. I had a big plastic box in which I had all my me ... Read on »

Study says more is not better: what crap! by Kamal S. Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Kidney Failure The trial pundits are at it again! A recent study claims that more dialysis does not show any real benefit in quality of life. I say to them: Buzz off! I honestly don't n ... Read on »

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