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I just got home from the hospital. Spent Dec 29th through Jan 2nd in the hospital for total kidney failure. I got sick like the day after Christmas & kept steadily getting worse & I went to my doctor, he told me to take heartburn pills & drink gatorade. I knew I was in trouble which is why I went to the doctor because of having a bad case of diarrhea and gas. I was dehydrated but I didn't think I was so bad off cause it'd only been a couple of days.
Woke up on the 29th of Dec & I couldn't move at ALL. It was like my entire body was asleep & I couldn't wake it up. Luckily I wasn't alone & an ambulance was called. They transported me to one hospital & I was given fluids & they said my kidneys had failed & I had a POTASSIUM LEVEL OF 9.4, which I'm told that most people DO NOT SURVIVE.
My blood pressure had dropped below 84/28 & my potassium levels should have killed me. They even told my relatives to come to the hospital cause I may not make it. They were giving me fluids & then transported me to a different hospital where I was in extreme distress & my pressure had only gone up slightly. I had been in the previous hospital for over 2 hours just to get me to a level that wasn't quite so deadly.
I was given fluids and & dialysis treatments & thank god my kidneys came back & from what the doctors said, I probably won't have to have dialysis again & no permanent damage was done. I was there for 4 1/2 days & just got home less than 2 hours ago. I'm actually doing very well & shocked the doctors once again.
They thought sure I was a goner but I defied the odds yet again. I know I have an angel watching over me.
The meds I was on, the doctors believe led to the kidney failure & told me to stop taking it for now. Then last night, I had a seizure in Walmart & in doing some reading, I read that high potassium levels can cause seizures & I think my body had a delayed reaction to what happened. I have to have an MRI. It's been a hell of a year so far, ugh
Woke up on the 29th of Dec & I couldn't move at ALL. It was like my entire body was asleep & I couldn't wake it up. Luckily I wasn't alone & an ambulance was called. They transported me to one hospital & I was given fluids & they said my kidneys had failed & I had a POTASSIUM LEVEL OF 9.4, which I'm told that most people DO NOT SURVIVE.
My blood pressure had dropped below 84/28 & my potassium levels should have killed me. They even told my relatives to come to the hospital cause I may not make it. They were giving me fluids & then transported me to a different hospital where I was in extreme distress & my pressure had only gone up slightly. I had been in the previous hospital for over 2 hours just to get me to a level that wasn't quite so deadly.
I was given fluids and & dialysis treatments & thank god my kidneys came back & from what the doctors said, I probably won't have to have dialysis again & no permanent damage was done. I was there for 4 1/2 days & just got home less than 2 hours ago. I'm actually doing very well & shocked the doctors once again.
They thought sure I was a goner but I defied the odds yet again. I know I have an angel watching over me.
The meds I was on, the doctors believe led to the kidney failure & told me to stop taking it for now. Then last night, I had a seizure in Walmart & in doing some reading, I read that high potassium levels can cause seizures & I think my body had a delayed reaction to what happened. I have to have an MRI. It's been a hell of a year so far, ugh
