A 20-year-old male asked:
what if i forgot to take my moring dosage but took it right away after 8 hrs is that fine? anti-rejections for kidney transplant
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Dr. John Munshower answered
30 years experience Family Medicine
Fine: A one time missed dose for 8 hours is fine, but compliance and regularity is important to develop a steady state of therapeutic drug level, so be sure to develop a routine that allows you to remember to take your daily medication. Best wishes.
Answered on Jul 9, 2014
Dr. Stephen Southard answered
15 years experience Internal Medicine
Important: Remember, it is of the greatest importance that you try to take your immunosuppressant medications in a timely fashion. It's administered that way so that your blood levels are appropriate to protect the transplant and minimize adverse effects of too high a drug level. Please review this with your transplant nephrologist to have a plan for issues like this in the future. Best of luck.
Answered on Oct 23, 2017
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Dr. W. james Chon answered
25 years experience Nephrology and Dialysis
Not really: It is extremely important that you take your anti-rejection medications every day on time. If you are off by 15 -30 minutes, I don't think it will have any significant impact on the allograft. Just remember that your immune system has a very good long-term memory and if you don't have adequate level of anti-rejection medicines in your system, your body will try to reject the kidney.
Answered on Jan 16, 2015
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Lifetime medication: You will need to take anti-rejection medications for life, or at least the life of the transplant. The dosages will be reduced some from the initial d ... Read More
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Dr. Jason Kline answered
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Hard to say.: Immunosuppression medications are necessary to prevent the body from attacking the transplanted kidney. If the medications are stopped, the body begi ... Read More
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Dr. Oscar Novick answered
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Transplant: Yes she can have a second transplant if she is medically stable
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