Kidney Function 43 % with PKD: Is Fatigue normal

2014-03-26 01:00

Recently, such a message is left on our website: I have PKD and my function is at 43%. I’m exhausted all the time. Is this normal? Considering that many patients have the similar medical condition, answers are posted in the website. If you have any other questions, please leave a message or send emails to pkdtreatment169@gmail.com.

As we all know, kidney has many functions. One of them is to secrete hormones like erythropoietin. Erythropoietin stimulates the bone marrows to generate red blood cells. If you have only 43% kidney function, the synthesis of red blood cells will be affected. Besides, 43% kidney function means some of the wastes and toxins can not be removed from your body in time. The accumulated wastes and toxins will affect the lifespan of red blood cells. Both the two factors contribute to the reduced amount of red blood cells, which means there is not enough oxygen to be transported to every part of your body. Lack of oxygen, you feel exhausted easily. Besides, poor sleeping quality and improper diet both have relation with fatigue.

As to the fatigue, you should suit the remedy to the case. If it is caused by anemia, you may take some erythropoietin or iron supplement. At the same time, you should do exercise regularly. It can boost your energy as well as improve your poor sleeping quality. But keep in mind that avoid strenuous activity and impacting on abdomen in case that the kidney cysts burst.

There are also other treatments for you to choose. Hot Compress Therapy is one of them. The active ingredients can penetrate into the damaged kidneys from shenshu acupoints. They can prevent the formation of cyst fluid and increase the permeability of cyst wall so that cyst fluid can flow out, resulting in the shrunken of kidney cysts eventually. Besides, it can repair the damaged kidney so as to improve kidney function. And then you will feel better than now.

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