solu medrol kidney transplant rejection

How long has it been since your kidney transplant? Do you still take medications to prevent kidney rejection? One of your greatest concerns as a transplant recipient will be that your body's immune system will reject and attack the transplanted kidney. If not reversed, rejection will destroy the transplanted organ. Aside from rejection, complications of transplantation include infection, relapse, high cholesterol level, liver disease, and weakening of the bones.

I had my first experience with Solu-Medrol infusion in early August. My relapse had just started and was worsening daily-right before I was due to start training for my new job! The immediate side-effects were quite obvious and well documented. I'm having less success finding out about long-term side-effects-in particular, rapid weight gain. I noticed the bloating quite early in my treatment, especially in my face and abdomen.

My brother-in-law went for kidney transplant in November 2002. Recently he has been diagnosed with HCV Genotype 1. Is there any homopethic medicine for HCV? Also it is also said that Blueberry Leaves stops or lowers HCV virus. How much is this true? If these leaves are beneficial how can we procure the same?

Is there any chance that antibodies will not create because of that. I heard that as an example in kidney transplant you take medicine it can stop creating anti bodies for the time being.

in most cases the barely functioning existing kidneys are not removed because this has been shown to increase the rates of surgical morbidities, the kidney is usually placed in a location different from the original kidney. The transplant surgery lasts about three hours. Living donor kidneys normally require 3-5 days to reach normal functioning levels Light activity at home is encouraged and movement of legs is important to prevent formation of blood clots.

He is very sick and they are saying a kidney transplant is now needed. His progression has rapidly increased within less than two months. What are they saying is going on? What is your urine output? 24 hour urine test did they do that? Stay in touch my mom and myself would love to help. We pray you are feeling well. its a horrible thing like you havent been through enough with the liver transplant those friggin anti rejection meds are the culprit.

Debs, It sounds like you mights as well take the Medrol - try it his way and then if it doesn't work out, you can go back and as for the solu-medrol. I'm guessing it is very close- just the "solu" means it is a liquid form (soluble) - again that's just my guess. Sorry you have to tough it out and take the meds - we all are taking stuff we would rather not ingest but do so because we're adults and understand the alternative. :-) Let us know how it goes...

7 u mol/L) i want to know that whether contiuing with dialysis is better option or we should transplant his kidney to fix things up permanently.

It's been 4 years since my second transplant and my kidney works great. I have blood work done very two weeks and see my doctor ever 3-4 months. I go here soon to see my doctor telling him won't be no where near as hard as telling my mom.

For those of you who have had to get the solu-medrol treatment IV for 5 days, how did this affect you and your body? It has been a couple weeks since I stopped the out-patient treatment for the IV. I am still awake a lot of the time when I should be sleeping. I got about 2 hours of sleep last night, and today, I lay down to rest and I can't still.

I was diagnosed with Lupus Nephritus IV , my doctor had me do a 3 day IV treatment of 1g solu Medrol , each, that was a week ago. I was already on prednisone 60 mg a day and right before the treatment Cellcept was added. I am feeling like I got hit by bus ! I read elsewhere that most of my current issues are withdrawal from the Solu Medrol . I was wondering if anyone else has had this treatment and how long it took to feel" normal" ?

i had on hand a solu-medrol had my boyfriend give me inj 1.5cc Im glute but he gave it too me about 1 inch to the left and now i have swelling at the site about the size of a quarter i am a nursing student and try to walk him through it and made sure he aspirated will i be ok???

Anyone have any ideas how to cope with the solu-medrol headaches? I slept about 3 1/2 hours, nurse is coming back in 2 1/2 for round 2 of the infusion, so have a couple of more days with the headaches.

Please also notice that withdrawal is NOT possible for other solid organ recipients because rejection is more severe for those organs (kidney, lung, heart, intestine) and causes permenant damage whereas the liver can recover completely from mild episodes. So what does this mean for your son? You should discuss his medications with his transplant team at each visit.

I have a quick question for you all... My neurologist says he doesn't want to give me Solu-Medrol for this "flare" because he said it would affect the MRI results as well as the LP if we do it fairly soon. Is what he told me true or is he just making me suffer for no reason? I don't know any better and thought who best to ask than you guys. Thanks so much.

Famliy Dr started a Decadron taper saying that it looks like MS but symptoms worsened. Neuro started IV Solu-Medrol 500mg x5 days and today was the last dose. Still numb arm. Just curious if any of you have experienced anything like this or how long it may take to get some relief from Solu-Medrol. Any information is very much so appreciated. Kinda freaking out here!!! Thanks!

I will have my first solu-medrol treatment at the end of this week. I have read the opinion of one person who has had this treatment before and they said that you should not drive or work. It was not clear if they were referring to just hours after the treatment or the entire five day course. I really need to work, and in order to work, I really need to be able to drive. Please tell me your experience with solu-medrol, especially if you continued to work during the treatment course.

If this continues I will have to get dialisys treatment or go on a kidney transplant list. You know the higher your AST/ALT gets the more scaring occures and in most cases hep C can be very aggressive after transplant. So I salute those that has over come hep C. Even if interferon works for me and it has not yet I still have to take the meds. which is slowly destroying my kidneys.

My question is whether this feeling is a side effect of Solu-medrol or an MS symptom that his not being relieved by the Solu-medrol? I would be grateful for any insight!

I started my exacerbation in April of this year and immediately got on Solu-Medrol. I took the Solu-Medrol for 6 days at maximum dosage and tapered off with Prednisone. While my Optic Neuritis went away after only a couple of weeks or so, I soon had a Trigeminal Neuralgia attack. This only happened once, thank God, but a few days later, I began to experience difficulty walking. I still have difficulty walking, some days good, some days really bad, but the other symptoms have vanished.

then after sometime and blood work go to 75mg twice daily if every thing checked out. I am scared to lower my rejection meds. I have never had any rejection. Should i be trying to lower my rejection meds with a through level of 76? do you have any patients on rapa? Does rapa affect bile flow? Thank you Dr.

m new to this website and saw these posts about the anti rejection meds. I had my liver transplant 10 years ago. My anniversary date will be on April 18. I am interested in knowing more about not having to take the meds and also how everyone is doing today with their transplants.

Solu medrol kidney transplant rejection

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