I'm new to this forum, and have to say that this is a wonderful resource for living donors. I donated to my husband who has polycystic kidney disease 12 years ago, (actually right on Valentines Day), and we both are doing very well thank God. We both even ran a marathon together a couple years ago.
I would like to know if anyone knows if the surgical clips that are used ever dislodge years later. Is there any information anywhere about this - I continue to have my kidney function monitored every 6 months and that's been fine but it never occurred to me until recently, when I had a vague sort of pain in my back on that side,(really mild but like something was rubbing) that I thought about the possibility of it being the clip. I do have a call into the surgeon who did my surgery but having trouble reaching him.
Well keep up the good work here, and thank you for any information you may have.
Donor - February 14, 2006 - St. Barnabas Livingston, NJ