[Diabetes-talk] Kidney Failure and Diabetes

[cheryl echevarria]

For someone who has gone through dialysis and a transplant, and mind you a 
transplant is just a treatment not a cure, even though transplants last a 
good 20+ years now if you take care of yourself.

Debbie:  Please discuss all questions about your insulin with you doctors, 
as well as people who have gone through it, the national kidney foundation 
is a great source for people going through all of this.  I went from stage 
to stage 4 in a matter of 3 months, so please make sure you have a 
nephrologist (Kidney Specialist) and Endocrinologist (Dr. that specializes 
in Diabetes and make sure that they know each other to pass along 
information to you and to the other doctos.

Insulin if you have to much of it in your system will give you hypos, 
whether or not you have kidney problems or not, but your body is basically 
sick, so any problems going through you will give you hypos or hypers 
remember to keep track of everything and give information to doctors and 
medical team.

Unless you know how things work and are on top of your medical conditions 
then you can tell someone whether it is right or wrong.

Again, we are giving advice and our experiences and each person works 
different, we are not doctors and cannot tell you what is so, but from what 
I have been told since 2001 that insulin effects you sugars and the better 
control you have the slower the progression of will be.

So there are a few of us on here that either are going through kidney 
failure or End Stage Renal Disease, because basically that is what is, you 
can be at stage 2 for years and have a normal life,  but the more that you 
not take care of yourself the faster it will progress.  I also lost my sight 
at the same time as my kidneys not as fast as my kidneys progressed I went 
from December 2001 I lost 60 percent of vision to November 2001 where I lost 
full vision in left eye and 80 percent in right.


Cheryl Echevarria
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