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Still extremely tired 4 years after kidney donation

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Fr Pat:
One of the links Michael kindly posted above is to a medical study: "Left-sided Donor Nephrectomy Predisposes Living Kindey Donors to Latent Adrenal...", which can also be found by scrolling down to it at the "Living Donation in the News" section of this site. Perhaps it would be well to print out copies to give to your doctors? "Fatigue is hard to measure, since it does not produce a lab number. In the study they used a standardized set of questions that distinguish levels of fatigue. Their conclusion is that post-donation fatigue is NOT a mental problem, but a physical one. Some doctors dismiss complaints of fatigue simply because it is so hard to measure it.

redutch:

--- Quote from: Fr Pat on January 17, 2019, 09:50:46 PM ---One of the links Michael kindly posted above is to a medical study: "Left-sided Donor Nephrectomy Predisposes Living Kindey Donors to Latent Adrenal...", which can also be found by scrolling down to it at the "Living Donation in the News" section of this site. Perhaps it would be well to print out copies to give to your doctors? "Fatigue is hard to measure, since it does not produce a lab number. In the study they used a standardized set of questions that distinguish levels of fatigue. Their conclusion is that post-donation fatigue is NOT a mental problem, but a physical one. Some doctors dismiss complaints of fatigue simply because it is so hard to measure it.

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Thanks for your reply and the tip. I will definitely do that, I'm also going to see a different doctor for a second opinion, perhaps he/she can look at it from a different angle, other than "it's just a mental issue".

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