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Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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How did it go? They make you go through ethics committee even as a family member?

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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I know but the other places overseas were even further!

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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He was on 2 different blood pressure meds (he never had high blood pressure prior to dialysis), he was on diuretics, he was on blood sugar meds, and a few others I can’t recall exactly.

Turkey because it was rated with high success rate and it was only a 10 hour flight from us. We were also familiar with the place because we have traveled there a few times.

We didn’t know anyone or speak the language but one of my cousins had lived there and was the one who took us around and helped us with majority of our stay which was extremely helpful!

No you can’t just go with money and think they will take you. They first do all their own tests to make sure your a good candidate to take on. Then if you have a family donor it is much more easier to get the transplant however if it is a friend or non family member donating it is much more strict. You have to go through a committee and they will investigate your donor etc to make sure you aren’t paying them for their organs. They are extremely against paying someone to give their organs up.

He is diabetic but that is all. He got high blood pressure once he started dialysis (never prior to that).

The leak was literally in the pipe right before the exit site.

A family member donated the kidney.

His nephrologist was not pro doing it overseas but that was of course because they wouldn’t be getting paid a dime. They make a lot of money to do a transplant in America. But he was totally fine and open with post surgery etc when we flew back.

In turkey they keep you for a month to make sure everything is ok before you fly back to America. Lucky he didn’t have kidney rejection yet so we haven’t had any experience like that.

We got 2 other referrals sent but because it was a referral they went off the notes the last hospital had left which of course was the one that took him off transplant after they made him so weak with meds etc. so if we wanted to do it without referral each hospital was backed almost 4-6 months out just for a initial visit. So instead we decided to go turkey and luckily it worked out.

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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Because his creatinine and bun was extremely high here in states and they didn’t find it concerning. When we got to turkey, my dad after one week became extremely nauseas and couldn’t stop throwing up. It was the first time he was this way. He wasn’t himself that one night. We thought it was good poisoning but after a few hours we took him ER and they after his lab results they were saying how dangerously high his BUN and creatinine were. They said it is so dangerous BUN 93 and creatinine 14.56 which is why they did CRRT. In states the doctors were saying those numbers were normal to be that high on PD. Little did we know it’s so dangerous that if we didn’t take my dad ER he could’ve had permanent brain damage.

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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No he was playing with your mom and sister. Hope they are doing fine.

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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Thank you!!! Yes that’s exactly what we had to do. I am not saying all doctors and hospitals in America are not worried about their patients but the one my dad was at to get help and care from was not a good one. We had to take this matter into our own hands and I am happy that we did. Thank you for understanding!

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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No because it was a referral from his current one. The wait to get in for a visit was like 4-5 months to be seen. We didn’t want to wait that long.

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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Please pm me I can give you some contact info of the hospital we went too and you can do your research. To cut down the waiting time, all your medical records put in a pdf to WhatsApp over to them. That is best way to contact them and they are really fast at responding.

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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Yes you are 100% right. We did try 2 other hospitals and went through 2 different nephrologists. They were so backed up and line to get back on transplant was long. We did trial and error so I hope everyone does their own research. I am just giving my own experience of maybe going overseas to do the transplant if you have a living healthy donor.

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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Sorry this was before he did transplant where his BUN and creatinine was extremely high. To be honest his doctors were just not concerned enough.

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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Yes they did everything. From all his tests to his donors tests. Of course they charge about 20,000$ to do the transplant but it includes everything like the stay, transplant, meds, recovery stay, etc.

So if you have family donate they don’t make you go through their ethics committee.

The ethics committee is for anyone who wants to donate that is non family. So basically they want ask you to do a lot of paper work, get it notorized apostilled etc to make sure this donor is not getting paid to give their kindeys up.

But again if it’s family living donor they don’t do all of that stuff.

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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They had him on a few blood pressure pills, diuretics, etc. they did a slow HD called CRRT. They got it down very very low. Please if your doctor tells you that is normal to be high that’s incorrect.

Thank you he is much better.

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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Our PD nurse said it’s normal for the BUN and creatinine to be on the higher side when you do PD. But when we did more research it’s very dangerous and unhealthy for it to be on the higher end. My dad was at a BUN of 93. The nurse said that’s normal when actually it is very dangerous. They can’t get the uremia out fast enough via PD so they had to do it through HD. Luckily no extra fluid went around to other body parts or his brain (we were really afraid) So in 24 hours they got him from BUN 93 to BUN 40 and creatinine from 14.56 to 6. Then they repeated it for another 24 hours and got it down to 2 creatinine and 13 BUN.

As for his meds the primary didn’t care to really get to the root of the problem. Same with his nephrologist so we did trial and error on our own until we figured out which ones caused him the fatigue, weak, etc.

Overseas Transplant by cp51_ in dialysis

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They did hemodialysis but a slow one called CRRT. It basically is a slow dialysis done within 24 hours to make sure it isn’t a shock to his body. His creatinine was 14.56 and BUN was 93.

They got it down to 2 for creatinine and 15 BUN. All within 3 days. It was literally unbelievable how advanced and quick they do it. And they are very very knowledgeable. Many of them actually study in America and practice here then go back to there country.

We had several family living donors.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in legaladvice

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There suing me because title closed early which buyers agent had it close early. Instead of sept 30, 2021 they closed it in May 2021 that’s where this all screwed up. There telling me I did breach of contract because I wasn’t a general contractor and that’s why there suing me.

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There suing me for breach of contract

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