kidney failure

That's what brought on the change of law.

You're looking at kidney failure.

You're looking at dialysis.

This is not a joke.

It creates these granulomas, so the scar tissue kind of thing, where the body walls it off as well with macrophages and things to protect the body from this kind of foreign body.

And by doing that, you can, through a series of biochemical events, it raises your blood calcium levels.

And if you have high, consistently high blood calcium levels, that can cause kidney failure.

So one of the major issues with PMLA, and that was found in looking at data, is that kidney failure becomes a problem.

Yeah.

So I work, um, in- with people who have kidney failure.

So I have been a, a, a psychologist working in, uh, renal for 17 years.

Um, and I never actually set out to do it, if I'm honest.

I've sent them that message in November last year.

One day I opened my eyes and I was suddenly in the ICU with stage five kidney failure and a bunch of nurses around me looking at me and trying to talk to me.

Turns out I had overdosed on call while playing a game with my friend and she had called emergency services for me.

The nurses looked concerned and they kept asking me questions that I couldn't answer because I forgot which language I spoke.

He told me he's glad I'm okay and he helped me with things like getting my memory back and just being there for me even though I had pushed him and my other siblings away in that fight a year ago.

My sister came too and she also helped me and made me feel better by bringing me some necessities.

I went to dialysis twice a week and I adjusted to the new eating and drinking rules that came with stage five kidney failure, but slowly I was able to walk again and I was finally able to leave the hospital in late December.

I kept going to dialysis twice a week until in mid-February I got my blood results and they said I didn't need dialysis anymore and that my kidneys have started working properly again.

If it were to fail, you would be really sick within a couple of days and you would probably be dead within a week.

So today I want to talk about some of the most important signs and symptoms of chronic kidney disease and kidney failure.

But more importantly, I want to help you understand how to recognize it in the very early stages so you never have to walk down that path of kidney failure, dialysis, and kidney transplant.

Coming right up.

Hey, I'm Dr. Ekberg.

The filtration is close to shutting down, 15 to 29 milliliters per minute.

The symptoms are gonna be the exact same ones as in stage three, but they're gonna happen more frequently to a greater percentage of people to a more severe degree.

and so all the symptoms become more severe the damage to the kidney goes from moderate to severe and now we're in a very very serious state we really want to catch it way way way before it ever gets to this because it's rare that you can do anything about it at this point now you're very near kidney failure and they typically they give you counseling to start preparing you for dialysis or if you're fortunate to get a transplant you really don't want to get to this point stage five of chronic kidney disease now we're pretty close to complete failure we're less than 15 milliliters per minute if it hasn't shut down completely it's really close and now we're going to start seeing some more extreme symptoms that you would never get in the earlier stages and breathing is going to suffer why you're almost drowning in your own lungs because this fluid that's leaking out into the tissues from edema from a lack of albumin now it can start filling up your lungs known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease You also get things like sleeping trouble.