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What a relief to hear you are finally being treated properly. No trouble with the sulphur thing? You know, about the cath and the dye – I have damaged kidneys and before the procedure they did a couple of things.
First, they brought me in a day early and gave me a 12 hour saline drip to hydrate me. I know it sounds funny while on Lasix and already flooded, but that’s what they did. The day before the procedure they gave me two doses of Mucomyst, morning and night – orally. The day of the procedure they gave me a third dose before the procedure and I took it morning and night for two days after the procedure. Mucomyst smells like rotten eggs, and tastes worse, even though it’s only a tiny bit at a time. (I can’t remember the dose, but it was only a couple of cc’s.) The nurses offered to mix it with orange juice, but with my diabetes I took it straight, with a small amount of apple juice as a chaser.
With an angiogram or heart cath you are normally on the table for somewhat less then an hour – sometimes a lot less. My last cath and stenting was a problem and I wound up on the table for six hours over two days. (They had to break after three hours because of the load of dye used.) On day two my pressure dropped to 70/40, I developed pneumonia, and my kidney function went to 4.4 (1 is normal and five is where you start to look at dialysis.) The Mucomyst saved the day and drove my kidney function number back to my normal base line of 2.5 – (they are damaged after all.)
I found the following on the internet while trying to remember the name of the drug they used on me. You might find it interesting.
Several things can be done to lessen the chance of a patient developing kidney failure with a catheterization, though nothing is guaranteed to work. First of all, using one of the newer types of dye (newer as in available in the last 5-10 years) called “low osmolar” dye helps lower the risk of kidney failure in people with kidney problems to start with, though it does not lower the chance of kidney failure from dye in people with normal kidneys. Secondly, flushing the kidneys with intravenous fluids with or without intravenous lasix or mannitol (to increase how much urine the kidneys make) helps. Lastly, a medicine called Mucomyst given intravenously is standardly given by iv to help lessen the potential damage to kidneys from the dye.
Hope the info is of some use to you.
Burt
What a relief to hear you are finally being treated properly. No trouble with the sulphur thing? You know, about the cath and the dye – I have damaged kidneys and before the procedure they did a couple of things.
First, they brought me in a day early and gave me a 12 hour saline drip to hydrate me. I know it sounds funny while on Lasix and already flooded, but that’s what they did. The day before the procedure they gave me two doses of Mucomyst, morning and night – orally. The day of the procedure they gave me a third dose before the procedure and I took it morning and night for two days after the procedure. Mucomyst smells like rotten eggs, and tastes worse, even though it’s only a tiny bit at a time. (I can’t remember the dose, but it was only a couple of cc’s.) The nurses offered to mix it with orange juice, but with my diabetes I took it straight, with a small amount of apple juice as a chaser.
With an angiogram or heart cath you are normally on the table for somewhat less then an hour – sometimes a lot less. My last cath and stenting was a problem and I wound up on the table for six hours over two days. (They had to break after three hours because of the load of dye used.) On day two my pressure dropped to 70/40, I developed pneumonia, and my kidney function went to 4.4 (1 is normal and five is where you start to look at dialysis.) The Mucomyst saved the day and drove my kidney function number back to my normal base line of 2.5 – (they are damaged after all.)
I found the following on the internet while trying to remember the name of the drug they used on me. You might find it interesting.
Several things can be done to lessen the chance of a patient developing kidney failure with a catheterization, though nothing is guaranteed to work. First of all, using one of the newer types of dye (newer as in available in the last 5-10 years) called “low osmolar” dye helps lower the risk of kidney failure in people with kidney problems to start with, though it does not lower the chance of kidney failure from dye in people with normal kidneys. Secondly, flushing the kidneys with intravenous fluids with or without intravenous lasix or mannitol (to increase how much urine the kidneys make) helps. Lastly, a medicine called Mucomyst given intravenously is standardly given by iv to help lessen the potential damage to kidneys from the dye.
Hope the info is of some use to you.
Burt
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