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FSGS - My Life

arrows91
  • By arrows91 · 10:53 am
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  • Hi everyone, I decided to join after reading alot of helpful posts. I'm a 20 year old with primary FSGS, this condition as messed alot of things up in my life, cant play sport due to my neck line, lost ...

Ramblings...

Morse
  • By Morse · Yesterday at 8:01 am
  • 1 reply
  • Hey all... It's been awhile since I have posted anything but there has been a lot going on... School has started back in and that makes it super busy but my kids are great and that helps a lot but it ...

its been a long road with fsgs

luv2cook
  • By luv2cook · September 30, 2008
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  • I am just looking for any new information on fsgs for someone who has tried just about everything that has been available to me. I was diagnosed with focal segmental glumerolsclerosis in 1992 when I was ...

He's on the list

JosephsMom
  • By JosephsMom · September 22, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • My eight yr old son who has FSGS is now on the list for transplant. If anyone has had one before could you share ...

Needing to hear more inspirational stories

Howdee
  • By Howdee · September 22, 2008
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  • I really need to hear some GOOD news - more of Christi's kind of stories, PLEASE. I'm a 39yo mother of two great kids. I have suffered with an anxiety disorder that flares off and on for 8 years. I recently ...

Biopsy gone wrong

pinkflowers24
  • By pinkflowers24 · September 22, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • I had a needle core biopsy done on August 25th. I did what they told me to do, but when the sterrie strips came off it got infected. I had red streaks coming from it, so I went to my doctor and they put ...

My Personal Battle against Kidney Disease and Nephrotic Syndrome

ChristiL
  • By ChristiL · September 19, 2008
  • 14 replies
  • My Personal Battle against Kidney Disease… I hope my story can help you write yours... I'm not sure how to share my story/my illness with you. So, I guess I'll just jump in and hope you can follow. I ...

Diovan

mamagemini
  • By mamagemini · September 16, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • Is anyone here on Diovan? I seem to be having more palpitations and hot flashes more than before. Plus my blood pressure went back up to 134/84. It had leveled down to 118/88..now back up. Not much but ...

getting better

TriciaJ
  • By TriciaJ · September 15, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • just letting anyone know that was interested that my son is getting better... he is starting to show signs that he might go into a remission he is testing at a 1+ or trace. so we have cancelled the solumedrol ...

solumedrol infusion ????

TriciaJ
  • By TriciaJ · September 10, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • today we went to the neph. and they are going to do another biopsy and then start my son on solumedrol infusions. I am not real farmiliar with this treatment and wondered if there was anyone that had ...

Does anyone live here in Dallas

mylifenow
  • By mylifenow · September 8, 2008
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  • I am in Dallas and currently going to childrens for my son, does any one else live here or go to childrens ...

what now????

mylifenow
  • By mylifenow · September 5, 2008
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  • Ok so my son was diagnosed at 11 months old, and he is now 4. He has FSGS, and it has been one heck of a journey. I promise he has had everything under the sun! There was a time right before his 3rd birthday ...

decision making time

Beth75
  • By Beth75 · September 2, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • on pred for a year, still not in remission, unless there is a flipping miracle and my test show I am there. So I wasted a year on pred got all the side effects and no remission. I have some lovely purple ...

protein lowering meds ?????? cozaar

TriciaJ
  • By TriciaJ · August 31, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • I am new to this group and I am not sure of how to post on here yet so, here it goes.. they just recently started my 13 year old son on cozaar a protein lowering med and for blood pressure is anyone farmiliar ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · August 27, 2008
  • 48 replies
  • At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...

Pain with Tigger thoughts!

Morse
  • By Morse · August 16, 2008
  • 0 replies
  • Hey there... I'm hurting so bad this morning in so many different places! I had my braces put on last Tuesday and now I have three spots in my mouth that are nearly raw and they are killing me... I have ...

Blood tests

mamagemini
  • By mamagemini · August 15, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • Ack. I got my new ones yesterday and kinda put me in a funk. My calcium is high and my chloride is high. My cholesterol still way up there. Now it is 315....sucks. They want to put me on another cholesterol ...

My story

JosephsMom
  • By JosephsMom · August 15, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • Two years ago my son started to break out in a rash. I took him to the allergist to be tested. Through that they found out that he had hypothyroidsm. This sent us to an endocronologist at UCSF. Through ...

A Day in the Life with FSGS

rferrerj
  • By rferrerj · August 15, 2008
  • 25 replies
  • I will be on dialysis soon. I can only hope that I will finally begin to feel better.I woke up this morning with some serious dizziness and feeling really sick. If only I could throw up and make it all ...

son with fsgs

adsg
  • By adsg · August 13, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • I have a son that is 7 years old. He was diagonsed with fsgs at 5 years old. He is on blood pressure medicine and is doing great. I have been told that it is very rare for two people in the same family ...

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