My wife, Dawn is now on a new regimen of medications to keep her kidney alive and functioning. She has to take a pill for fighting the rejection and then a pill to fight fungus from growing and then a pill to prevent to fight this and another one for that.
Dawn lost her kidney at 20 and went onto dialysis and then started taking the large amount of medications when she received her 1st kidney transplant, 10 months later. She now has received her second transplant and she is on more medications.
Something that continually pulls at my consciousness is when is the drug counter-active? Dawn has osteoporosis because of the prednisone medication and she has had cataracts as well. She has had one symptom and they then treat with another medication that will cause another side effect which will require another medication!
Is there anyone out there that has had a transplant and is on a very low dose of medication or none at all? I have heard that some people that have a transplant can be removed from the medication, but it is rare. I just suffer for my wife, and seeing her take the medication daily (32 pills to be exact) just seems like eventually she will end up with another symptom or problem caused by the medication.
One thing I am sure of; medicine is a science, but when you give the medicine to a person, it is still a gamble and a 'practice.' So tell me, talk to me, what is your experience on medication? you do not need to be a transplant recipient, you can be a cancer patient or whatever, but I am sure more have had the experiences that my spouse has had. As a care giver, watching the spouse go through such turmoil is hell.
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