10 years ago my body started to rejected my kidneys and i had kidney failure. I was only 7 so i don't remember any details but i know i didn't have a transplant and i'm pretty sure i didn't have dialysis or anything like that... All i know it that i wasn't given very good odds of survival and my parents pretty much said their goodbyes. By cutting salt out of my diet completely i was ok again. I mean i was a lot smaller than my friends and i was tired all the time but obviously i'm still around! After a few years i was able to incorporate salt into my diet again. I haven't had any other problem and i'm pretty much the same as other girls my age. Although i'm a fair bit shorter than nearly everyone else because my growth was stunted! But recently i've been feeling tired (though i do suffer from mild SAD so i do get more tired in the winter), slight and random shortness of breath (like i'll be riding my horse and it'll just be randomly when i'm walking around that i suddenly realise i can't breath all too well), abdominal pain (For the past year or so i have got bad abdominal pain that's kind of like period pain but it's not. Recently i've had it for a week and it hasn't gone away at all. Sometimes it feels like hunger pain but it doesn't go away when i eat!), a feeling like i need to urinate but i often don't, back pain, cramp in my leg and arm muscles, i had a puffy face for a couple of days, and i sometimes get dry and itchy skin.
Could this mean i have Chronic Kidney Disease? Any advice about what it could be if not? Thanks in advance x
Could this mean i have Chronic Kidney Disease? Any advice about what it could be if not? Thanks in advance x