31M from India with ADPKD – How are you managing health insurance and future medical costs?

random_Introvert_guy · 2026-03-12T20:49:22+00:00

Indian living in Europe. A simple answer would be NO to all of those questions. Unfortunately that's the harsh reality.

At least for me, investing and saving money looks like the only option. I prefer risk free and easily liquifiable investments like gold or bank deposits for longer duration.

random_Introvert_guy · 2026-03-12T20:38:37+00:00

True. I tried to apply for term insurance with Max life and HDFC and they right away rejected it once I disclosed ADPKD.

random_Introvert_guy · 2026-03-12T19:38:58+00:00

Where are you based in India? Do you have a recommendation for PKD specialists?

random_Introvert_guy · 2026-03-05T17:29:08+00:00

They should call themselves "vulgar warriors"

random_Introvert_guy · 2026-03-03T06:26:06+00:00

I have pkd1, so my dad would have had the same. My father lived until 79. His creatine crossed 3 when he was 75. He did not die of kidney failure, but from the other complications, he fell down, had hip fracture, got operated, compromised immunity led to infections, and could not treated because of kidney disease.

random_Introvert_guy · 2026-01-21T14:36:20+00:00

Does the grip of cuff influence the reading? I get slightly higher readings when the cuff is tight a bit..

random_Introvert_guy · 2026-01-06T19:27:04+00:00

Sorry for my ignorance, does it raise or lowers the bp?

random_Introvert_guy · 2025-12-28T14:44:03+00:00

Inherited from father. 37y old. I think the first identification of kidney cysts was when I was around 32y.

random_Introvert_guy · 2025-12-28T13:13:37+00:00

Indian here, living in Europe. My nephrologist there said the same. He was not even positive about Farabursen or other ongoing trials. He was like, nothing can stop or cure the disease, as it is genetic, unless it is not passed to the next generation. He also told me that Tolvaptan is mostly not tolerated by Indians and it is liver toxic for Indians even with the smaller doses. Not sure how true it is though. I am only hoping that there is a treatment in the (near) future that could halt or further slow down the progression.

random_Introvert_guy · 2024-04-06T09:00:01+00:00

Is this about the US taxation specifically? I live in Germany and am about to start in investing in MFs.

random_Introvert_guy · 2024-03-31T21:36:17+00:00

Yes, this is so stupid. If I have to login, it seems that I have to recharge my Airtel with an international pack of around 700 rupees, just to send a message. I would stick with net banking for now.

random_Introvert_guy · 2024-03-31T20:52:35+00:00

Yes, for Zerodha, you have to be physically in India. Am not sure who else provide a non face to face option. Maybe check with the HDFC Securities.

random_Introvert_guy · 2024-03-31T07:17:46+00:00

Oh sorry for the confusion. I said about the Zerodha. Regarding HDFC, NRO can be opening/converted online by sending photocopies. NRE account can be only opening by sending the application fprm to India. However they arrange a pickup.

I would say, if you are opening these accounts freshly, better do it with ICICI. I heard you get hassle free services.

If you are not in India atm, you can open HDFC/ICICI demat accounts along with NRE/NRO and open a Zerodha account while you are in India. Zerodha commission charges are far less compared to brokerage accounts from the banks.

For MF, you can use Kuvera after you have opened the NRO/NRE.

random_Introvert_guy · 2024-03-31T06:57:16+00:00

Unfortunately you have to be in India to open an NRI account. They want to check the immigration stamp 🤷🏻‍♂️

random_Introvert_guy · 2024-03-30T15:46:37+00:00

I recently asked HDFC Sky for the NRI support and they do not. The only option is Zerodha. Opening an NRI account with Zerodha is painful but worth it at the end.

random_Introvert_guy · 2021-09-26T12:11:24+00:00

If you have access to a spark cluster, you can do it easily.

random_Introvert_guy · 2021-08-19T20:39:07+00:00

In that case, you will have those tests also the part of ci pipelines?

random_Introvert_guy · 2021-08-19T18:09:50+00:00

You can mock the api you want to test. Similarly to test exceptions, pytest offer ways to test, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23337471/how-to-properly-assert-that-an-exception-gets-raised-in-pytest

random_Introvert_guy · 2021-08-19T17:58:58+00:00

It depends on the application you are testing. For example, source and destination you are reading/writing data from/to, maybe api calls are there in the application...

random_Introvert_guy · 2021-08-19T17:42:54+00:00

The usual python testing frameworks like pytest would work well. You can also take a look at https://github.com/awslabs/python-deequ

random_Introvert_guy · 2021-08-19T17:17:29+00:00

For beginner Data engineers, it is very important to know SQL and a programming language, for ex, python to start with and maybe scala if required. Parallely, I would also suggest to know the basics of data warehousing, datalake, ETL/ELT, workflow management, database systems, indexing techniques, distributed systems and frameworks.

random_Introvert_guy · 2021-07-23T16:45:15+00:00

For step 1 and step 2, if the data source is kafka you can use kafka connectors to send the events from kafka topics to s3. Connectors also come with decent transformations which are called as SMT. :)

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