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Author Should I pursue any more surgery...
Ike

2006-08-24, 2:27 am

I am a 30 year old male who recently had surgery to repair UPJ in my left
kidney. The surgery seems to have failed as when I went for the IVP the
Iodine would not pass from the left kideny to the bladder. It is very
likely the doctor is going to recommend some other options to get my hopes
up when I see him. My question for anyone who is reading is about whether
or not I should just forget about going any further. Should I take a chance
that my right kidney will never give me problems or get injured?


Judanne

2006-08-24, 4:29 pm

I can't reply specifically as I don't know what UPJ is or what that problem
connotes, but many people around the world are living very successfully with
one kidney including those born that way, living donors and transplant
recipients, self included. I've been living with one or none kidneys since
1981. Currently have 4 but 2 have atrophied and one (transplanted) hasn't
worked for 5 years; but the other is only 25 years old and has been happily
living within me for the last 15 months.

Judanne

"Ike" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
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>I am a 30 year old male who recently had surgery to repair UPJ in my left
>kidney. The surgery seems to have failed as when I went for the IVP the
>Iodine would not pass from the left kideny to the bladder. It is very
>likely the doctor is going to recommend some other options to get my hopes
>up when I see him. My question for anyone who is reading is about whether
>or not I should just forget about going any further. Should I take a
>chance that my right kidney will never give me problems or get injured?
>



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