Yes, this is true! Both my dad and little sister had kidney transplants. It was explained to me that keeping the old kidney in was because it still partially functions.
I had half a kidney removed due to kidney stones (at the ripe old age of 24) and that fucker bled so much, I had to have a few blood transfusions.
Drink more water, people. And don't consume cheap protein powder that's full of shit.
Edit: apologies guys I've been well busy, I don't think the website I bought my protein from even exists anymore (UK based if that helps?) but it was cheap as chips!
I’ve been having slushies for the past 2 months after I get off work. Thanks for the reminder. I’m gonna go drink some water after I finish my nearly full slushie I have currently
Yeah…. I should probably stop. What’s even worse is that this one dude that works there will literally just give it to me for free when he’s on the clock. At least I’m young 😂
You’re incurring deny my friend. Young doesn’t mean impervious, it just means nothing has come to collect yet. I work with a lot of elderly (60+) clients. Take care of yourself now or everything will be a pain in the ass later.
This is so true, just turned 25 and already seeing people I went to highschool with fall into serious medical complications from poor health. At 21 I would’ve thought I could live forever. Now that thought seems so much more naive every day
Nope. Had my first at 20. Now in my 30s, just got a CT scan after passing another stone and they found 17 lurking in my kidneys! No dietary red flags, and I drink a ton of water.
I’m 34, when I was in my teens I would drink pretty much nothing but energy drinks and soda. When I realized how incredibly unhealthy that was, I started drinking pretty much nothing but fruit juice. Then when I realized that this wasn’t much healthier, I just started drinking water. Never had a kidney stone in my life... I wonder if part of it is genetic.
I got my first and only one at 27 (I think?), never went to the urologist for a follow-up because I passed it at home without realizing it. The hospital said it was probably dehydration so I gave up my weekly energy drinks, and have started getting better about drinking water this year to stay hydrated.
Good steps! Still worth seeing a urologist — if for nothing else, to get established with a practice. That way if you ever get another one and it’s too big to pass, you can get a urologist appointment and get help sooner. The ER doesn’t do those kind of procedures, they’re not considered “emergent” unless your kidneys are completely blocked up and you can pee at all.
I've been told the same thing. We all have a genetic condition that makes absorbing vitamins and minerals difficult. As a result, calcium ends up dumping in our kidneys.
Yeaaaah that’s a myth. Drink water, and you can safely consume at least 1.5g/lbs of body weight in protein daily. This has been studied into the ground
I read it. You seem to know what you’re talking about, so here is a question:
In that study and others, they typically use phrases like “in healthy adults” or “in healthy kidneys”.
My kidneys have demonstrated that they like to produce stones.
To me, a kidney that produces stones on a normal diet is not healthy, so do these studies apply to me?
I believe creatine is actually the only supplement with pretty good evidence for muscle growth. I’ve always heard that besides protein and creatine most of the stuff being sold is pretty much snake oil
This is utter bullshit and five minutes on pubmed will prove it. It increases intercellular water storage and allows your muscles to endure more volume + lift at higher intensities. In addition to that, creatine also has neurological benefits which has garnered it a ton of research funding. Please don’t spread misinformation when 45 seconds of googling could at least get you a bare minimum understanding, and a couple hours of reading research reviews would almost entirely clear up.
I spent almost my entire life drinking essentially strictly soda. Finally at 23 I decided to quit drinking it altogether and I couldn't believe how much better I felt and also how the fuck I survived this long.
I still drink red bull because I desperately need caffeine but I'm trying to quit drinking energy drinks too.
Don't use protein powder full stop! Your kidneys can't process all that protein, it damages them. Honestly, over the 2018 period when I accompanied my husband to his post transplant appointments there were so many big weightlifter types in there with renal failure from high intakes of protein powder. The Doctors said that it's sadly becoming more common because people seem to think this shit helps when it can cause major problems.
Those muscle builders go into renal failure not only from high protein intake but they often go into rhabdomyolysis (rapid breakdown of muscle tissue due to overexertion) the breakdown of the muscle releases a ton of nephrotoxins that can clog the kidneys and if not treated with a shit ton of fluids can cause permanent damage.
This is the single biggest reason I'm hesitant to take whey to supplement my daily needs, sprouts and other options have worked out great thus far.... I know I'll need whey at some point though when I'm no longer progressing in muscle mass
So people post kidney transplant are superior beings? They have 2.x working kidneys with x being how much out of 10 their failing kidney still works. Unless both original kidneys failed offcourse
No, that's not why. The old urethra is connected to the new kidney. The old kidney artery is connected to the new kidney. Old kidney doesnt' have any blood flow to filter, and no tube anyway to transport urine to the bladder.
That, and they’re pretty much big sacks of blood. Unless something about the kidney is actively dangerous (infection/necrosis), then it’s actually safer to leave it in.
I’ve always wondered what happens if you need a fourth or a fifth kidney, do they just keep cramming more in? What if they only have kidneys at like one eighth functionality but they have a bunch of them? Does your abdomen just end up as a big bag of kidneys?
"This kidney was my mom's, this kidney came from my neighbour...oh and this one over here is from a buddy I was in the service with. Gotta go easy on that one."
my Dad has one of my kidneys, which was his second transplant. He would have had 4 at that point but one of his original kidneys became cancerous and had to be removed. So he currently has three, only one of which is his own. and they all do some of the work. Though the one he got from me does the lion's share.
Oh yeah, fucking tell me about it. 12 years so far after only a year and a half wait for the first one. You get more sensitized with each transplant and any blood transfusions. How sensitized you are is expressed by the percentage of kidneys that are the same blood type as you that your antibodies would try to murder if transplanted. So as an example I am 98% sensitized, so 98% of the blood type A kidneys that become available will not be a match for me. This is only for deceased donors, if you have a living donor, they can fuck with your immune system before hand so they don't have to worry about the antibodies as much. The process takes a couple weeks (I think), so it can't be done with deceased donors, where the kidney has to be transplanted within a day or so.
IF you need a second or third kidney its likely because your transplant is being rejected. Unlike your original kidney they kind of have to take that one out or its probably going to fuck you up a lot.
Well when i had 3 kidneys it was more like you needed new Rams for your computer as the other two was not working but you decided to not remove the old broken ones.
Nah it's like you had a Striped RAID array but the HDDs are having sector issues and half your pirated 2005 Napster Rips are already gone. So you beg your friends and family until someone gives you a Western Digital external drive so you can at least keep the pictures of your graduation and your kids birthdays.
In the mean time you upload everything to your cloud drives (dialysis) but they fill up once a month and you have to decide if you need to have an 8k resolution 2 min video of your cat being cute or pictures of the year you spent backpacking across Europe.
You're not gonna waste space saving 32bit Britney Spears singles now but maybe you can make the RAID into a page file or grab the good stuff and format it back to 2 disks and have the worst HDD as a page file and the better one to store stuff you are only mildly attached to.
I had to remove my two original plus the the one from my first transplant. I was born with only one kidney that worked at like 50% capacity. Then i got a transplantation when i was 8 as my original only working one stoped working also.
So basically, the testicle closest to the pelvic kidney is used like the white ball in a game of billiards to hit the kidney sorta like a game of internal organ billiards?
I once had an ultrasound where the young technician found a " mass' and went and got his supervisor. The supervisor had a good look and then sent me on my way. 10 minutes later I had a call from the scan clinic to contact my doctor urgently. It was Friday night so I spent the weekend planning my funeral. I eventually got onto my doctor who advise that I have a kidney in the wrong spot. It is in the location that they put them when they transplant one into a recipient . So what should I do? I asked. Nothing, it is working perfectly. Was the response. Fucking assholes. That was 15 years ago and the kidney is still doing its job.
Yep! I’m in the process of becoming a kidney donor, and I’ve been assured that the procedure for removing my kidney will be much more invasive than the procedure for whomever they thrust it into. It makes sense, though - all medical procedures need to do as little harm as possible, and so putting it in the hip means they can get it all connected up without so much risk of damaging anything else important.
That’s what the donor team have been asking me! I genuinely don’t have an easy answer, especially as nobody I’ve known/cared about has ever been directly affected with kidney issues! I’m in the UK, where they have a system of matching people to donors (so if you want to donate to a family member but aren’t a match, your kidney goes to someone else and your relative gets matched with a different kidney from the pool).
Once I found out that you can become an “altruistic non-directed donor”, which just means that I’m donating but with no recipient in mind, a little switch flocked over in my head and it became something I really wanted to do.
Since then I’ve had loads of blood tests and a psych evaluation, and when Covid stops being such a bastard I’ll be moving on to the scans and organ mapping stage.
There are so many tests because they won’t do the procedure if there’s more than an acceptable level of risk, which is fair, and the psych evaluation was to make sure that I’d be mentally okay with the aftermath, from whether I was able to donate in the first place to how I’d deal with knowing that I’d donated and the transplant hadn’t “taken” in the recipient. They also wanted to make sure I wasn’t being coerced or paid to do this, as that’s illegal here, but that was an easy one: “Is someone making you do this?” “Er, no. I don’t have anyone specific I’m donating to.” “Okay.”
If you live in the UK and are even vaguely interested in doing this, I urge you to look into it - to be clear, if you start the process, you are entirely at liberty to change your mind and stop at any point, although you might piss off a few people if you pull out on the morning of the procedure!
I have no idea if similar schemes are available in other countries, but I hope so.
As a kidney transplant receiver I can confirm.
I met a man with 5 kidneys because they leave any subsequent rejectedbor failed organs in there too. One doctor told me "well, there's plenty of room in there"
I’m late to comment here but… I studied abroad in Brazil and became friends with a transplant surgeon who invited me to watch a kidney transplant he was performing. I scrubbed up and stood right next to him.
As they were getting ready to sew up the patient, I actually told the surgeon he “forgot to take the old kidney out” because I thought maybe he was distracted with me there. He and the anesthesiologist laughed at me and thanked me sarcastically for my astute observation.
I was asked before my kidney/pancreas transplant if I had any questions before the surgery. I asked the plural of pancreas. Nobody could definitively say before my surgery, but on the whiteboard in my room when I got back it said that both pancreases and pancreaii were accepted, but pancreases was what is usually used.
If women can routinely make room for a 7-8 lb infant amongst the pelvic organs, I am fairly sure that a kidney will fit without much shifting of contents lol.
Wow imagine that greedy bastard that took a whole ass kidney from making someone walk around with only one, but they’re just out walking around with 3? Smh… so selfish
This would mean that, in spite of all the surgeries and transplants, the average number of kidneys in the human body stays [relatively] close to two...
Also. Some people with two kidney may actually have them attached in a different place (eg pelvis) and have no idea. Some people also can have complete mirror reversal of organs and have no idea.
Speaking of kidneys; roughly 1:700 women and 1:350 men are born with their kidneys fused together into 1 u-shaped kidney. A lot of people do not know they have "Horseshoe Kidney", mostly because about half the people with this condition experience [near] 0 symptoms/issues.
My father just got his 3rd kidney transplant this past december (so 5 total kidneys in his life) and they just kept all of them in. When he was talking to his transplant doctors he asked how many someone had received and it was 5 (so 8 total) and during that procedure they had to remove 2 kidneys to make room for the new one.
Leaving the original kidney there makes sense but why put the new one in the pelvis? Couldn't it be put in the abdomen, e.g. next to your existing kidneys? I don't feel like there is any space my pelvis.
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u/Soloflow786 29d ago
When you get a kidney transplant, they usually just leave your original kidneys in your body and put the 3rd kidney in your pelvis.