Do dialysis machine help keep kidney failure patients alive?

Answer 1

Dialysis definitely kept me alive. It got to the point where I was sleeping 12 hours a day, no energy, emaciated, depressed, itching, grumpy, etc. The first week of dialysis was like a new lease on life. I felt better---immediately. But there's nothing like having a brand new kidney....

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Answer 3

The kidneys have three functions: waste removal, fluid removal, and hormone production. The dialysis machine takes care of waste removal and fluid removal. Medication can assist with hormone production.

Dialysis treatments usually are for 3.5 - 4 hours and are 3 days a week. Normally functioning kidneys are working 24/7. That gives a lot of time for damage to be done in between. Unwise dietary choices, especially with fluids and potassium, can seriously damage your heart.

In other words, dialysis can only keep you alive as much as you want it to. There are many decisions that one can make to harm the dialysis process. If you follow dietary and lifestyle recommendations, you can increase your life expectancy and quality of life. Many kidney failure patients feel that everything is out of their control. While that is partly true, there is more freedom as a kidney failure patient than most believe.

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Answer 6

Yes. Through the dialysis process the machines do what the persons kidney no longer do. However dialysis is not the "easy" process that it is made out to be. There are several negatives to this process...though death isn't one of them.

Answer 7

yes my sister in law was on dialysis a few different periods of times. she has had 2 kidney transplants the first failed after a few years. so without dialysis she would be dead by now. so yes they keep a person going so they can have a chance at a transplant.

Answer 8

My Doctor Told Me the depressing news - "Your Kidneys Are FAILING!"

My worsening kidney disease symptoms included:
- Nausea and vomiting and constant stomach upset
- Passing only small amounts of urine and stopping and starting while urinating
- Swelling in my ankles and lower legs
- Puffiness around my eyes with brain fog and moodiness
- Chronic fatigue and shortness of breath when exerting myself
- Loss of appetite and not wanting to eat at all
- Increasingly higher blood pressure
- Bouts of anxiety and depression
- Muscle cramps which were worse in my legs

That a friend of mine sent me a link to a website (http://NatureHomeCure.com) that helped his Mother. She was just like me, and was suffering with failing kidneys and experienced the same worries and fears I was going through. All I could do was try it and see if it worked.

Here's where the story gets a little strange. Two months later, Instead of my kidneys sliding down the slippery slope of kidney failure and getting progressively worse, they started to get better.

My Doctor could not believe how much improved my kidney function output had increased and my GFR was UP and creatinine levels lower. My kidneys were starting to work again, and removing all the toxins in my body. I got my life back!

Now, I am using this 100% all natural protocol which restored my kidney function and did it naturally, without the use of unnatural man-made pharmaceutical drugs or dialysis. In less than two months my kidneys were on the mend. Now six months later, My kidney's are back to normal again.

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Answer 9

yes...but be very careful where you go to get dialysis. My son is on dialysis and the last place he went drew to much fluid off and he ended up in the hospital for dehydration...so...yes...the machine keeps you alive as long and the operators know what they are doing...*shrug*

Answer 10

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