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Lorrie's Journey
Hello to all! I hope this greeting finds you well and enjoying the warmer and beautiful days of spring.
To bring you up to date, I've been on Ivermectin and Mebendazole for 4 weeks now and have been receiving my IV and IM peptide therapy for 3 weeks and am happy to say I have tolerated them well. I will receive one more round of peptides this week then taking a week off with labs to be drawn checking on my kidneys status. I fully anticipate continuing on with the peptide therapy.
I thought I would share with you little by little how my kidney issues all began.
I was born with an issue that went undiagnosed until the age of 20.
My story begins as a sick infant spiking high fevers causing febrile seizures. I was in and out of the doctor's office and hospitalized trying to find out the cause of these fevers. My mother and father were instructed to do ice water sponge baths on me in an attempt to bring my fevers down. This was the routine when a high fever would strike. At some point in my toddler years the high fevers stopped but throughout my childhood I consistently ran a low grade fever. At some point it appeared that I outgrew whatever was causing them.
My younger brother was born two years after me and he too showed health concerns. After hospitalizations and doctor visits they discovered that out of his two kidneys, one was totally nonfunctioning.
Over the next few years it was determined by the doctors that our little brother needed this dead kidney removed. At the age of 5 1/2 they did a nephrectomy which is the removal of his kidney.
Around this time our dear mother delivered our baby sister. She too was a sick little one and it was discovered very early on that she had bilateral ureteral reflux going on in her urinary system.
In a healthy urinary system the urine is released from the kidneys and travels down the ureters and a sphincter valve opens allowing the urine to flow into the bladder. With a ureteral reflux the urine is released from the kidneys, flows down the ureter but the valve does not open and the urine refluxes back towards the kidney.
The purpose of the urinary system is to clear waste from the blood and send it to the bladder where it is eventually released. This system also maintains water balance, electrolyte balance, acid-base balance, blood pressure regulation, red blood cell production and vitamin D activation. So healthy kidneys are a must!
Our baby sister received corrective surgery.
In the meantime I continued to have urinary issues well into my teens but that all just seemed normal to me. My mother spoke with the urologist wanting to have me checked out but the doctor that she so trusted told her to quit looking for trouble and that I looked and was doing fine.
To be continued.....
To bring you up to date, I've been on Ivermectin and Mebendazole for 4 weeks now and have been receiving my IV and IM peptide therapy for 3 weeks and am happy to say I have tolerated them well. I will receive one more round of peptides this week then taking a week off with labs to be drawn checking on my kidneys status. I fully anticipate continuing on with the peptide therapy.
I thought I would share with you little by little how my kidney issues all began.
I was born with an issue that went undiagnosed until the age of 20.
My story begins as a sick infant spiking high fevers causing febrile seizures. I was in and out of the doctor's office and hospitalized trying to find out the cause of these fevers. My mother and father were instructed to do ice water sponge baths on me in an attempt to bring my fevers down. This was the routine when a high fever would strike. At some point in my toddler years the high fevers stopped but throughout my childhood I consistently ran a low grade fever. At some point it appeared that I outgrew whatever was causing them.
My younger brother was born two years after me and he too showed health concerns. After hospitalizations and doctor visits they discovered that out of his two kidneys, one was totally nonfunctioning.
Over the next few years it was determined by the doctors that our little brother needed this dead kidney removed. At the age of 5 1/2 they did a nephrectomy which is the removal of his kidney.
Around this time our dear mother delivered our baby sister. She too was a sick little one and it was discovered very early on that she had bilateral ureteral reflux going on in her urinary system.
In a healthy urinary system the urine is released from the kidneys and travels down the ureters and a sphincter valve opens allowing the urine to flow into the bladder. With a ureteral reflux the urine is released from the kidneys, flows down the ureter but the valve does not open and the urine refluxes back towards the kidney.
The purpose of the urinary system is to clear waste from the blood and send it to the bladder where it is eventually released. This system also maintains water balance, electrolyte balance, acid-base balance, blood pressure regulation, red blood cell production and vitamin D activation. So healthy kidneys are a must!
Our baby sister received corrective surgery.
In the meantime I continued to have urinary issues well into my teens but that all just seemed normal to me. My mother spoke with the urologist wanting to have me checked out but the doctor that she so trusted told her to quit looking for trouble and that I looked and was doing fine.
To be continued.....
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