Selena Gomez Got A Kidney Transplant Due To Lupus

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21 minutes ago, ToughHooker said:

Lupus is like quantum mechanics, if you think you understood lupus....well you didn't 

I mean...i remember reading about lupus when gaga was spending time with tara and both have lupus back in pre ARTPOP era..and it sounded like lupus makes you feel tired and all....

but i didnt know you could be in need for a new kidney because of lupus. that sounds severe as fkkk

Gaga did not have lupus, she said she was "borderline" (which I'm not really even sure what that means, medically speaking, she probably just meant she was at high risk). It's an autoimmune disease. Once you have lupus there is no cure, and it is very often fatal. The kidneys is one of the primary organs it effects. 

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5 minutes ago, rpggal said:

This is really, really bad. Kidney transplants are basically a death sentence. The kidney lasts at most 10 years, and you are on immunosuppressants for the rest of your life (which she would have already been on for her lupus, but the dosage will most likely increase), which means that she is much more likely to contract and die from infectious disease like flu or pneumonia, and she is highly likely to develop cancer later in life. She will need a new kidney transplant every 5-10 years. Very sad.

What would you think of heart transplants if kidney transplants have that somber of a prognosis?

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Huge Selena stan, I am beyond relieved she's ok.

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8 minutes ago, calmar said:

What would you think of heart transplants if kidney transplants have that somber of a prognosis?

It's about 10 years life expectancy (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15280687) but I think that's because the rest of the body is really screwed up from heart failure, and the new heart can only do so much. Your kidneys are the most delicate organs in your body, the new ones fail ironically because of all the hard drugs you have to take to suppress your immune system to not attack the new kidney. It's a catch 22 and you can't win But apparently they last 12-15 years so let me edit my original comment. 

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Oh ****  

[Vergil 2,296]

Wow, this is beyond friendship. 

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17 minutes ago, rpggal said:

This is really, really bad. Kidney transplants are basically a death sentence. The kidney lasts at most 15 years (if the donor is alive and a blood relative), and you are on immunosuppressants for the rest of your life (which she would have already been on for her lupus, but the dosage will most likely increase), which means that she is much more likely to contract and die from infectious disease like flu or pneumonia, and she is highly likely to develop cancer later in life. She will need a new kidney transplant every 12-15 years. Very sad.

Omg please stop it 

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4 minutes ago, rpggal said:

It's about 10 years life expectancy (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15280687) but I think that's because the rest of the body is really screwed up from heart failure, and the new heart can only do so much. Your kidneys are the most delicate organs in your body, the new ones fail ironically because of all the hard drugs you have to take to suppress your immune system to not attack the new kidney. It's a catch 22 and you can't win But apparently they last 12-15 years so let me edit my original comment. 

Well I still have hope for Selena since I had a heart transplant almost 25 years ago and a kidney transplant 6 years ago and I'm doing okay.  You're right though, I only needed the kidney transplant because the nephrotoxic immunosuppressants common in the 1990s (cyclosporine, mainly) eventually caused kidney failure, and I did get cancer last year (although it was not major cancer and was completely treatable with laparoscopic surgery.) Thankfully we're learning more about the right cocktail of immunosuppressant medication to take, and I take a slimmer amount that most (for example, many transplant patients are put on the steroid prednisone, which I don't take, thankfully; it makes me incredibly jittery, among other things.)

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14 minutes ago, calmar said:

Well I still have hope for Selena since I had a heart transplant almost 25 years ago and a kidney transplant 6 years ago and I'm doing okay.  You're right though, I only needed the kidney transplant because the nephrotoxic immunosuppressants common in the 1990s (cyclosporine, mainly) eventually caused kidney failure, and I did get cancer last year (although it was not major cancer and was completely treatable with laparoscopic surgery.) Thankfully we're learning more about the right cocktail of immunosuppressant medication to take, and I take a slimmer amount that most (for example, many transplant patients are put on the steroid prednisone, which I don't take, thankfully; it makes me incredibly jittery, among other things.)

wow. you are such a warrior. hoping for the best for you and Selena.

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Wow! 

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1 hour ago, calmar said:

Well I still have hope for Selena since I had a heart transplant almost 25 years ago and a kidney transplant 6 years ago and I'm doing okay.  You're right though, I only needed the kidney transplant because the nephrotoxic immunosuppressants common in the 1990s (cyclosporine, mainly) eventually caused kidney failure, and I did get cancer last year (although it was not major cancer and was completely treatable with laparoscopic surgery.) Thankfully we're learning more about the right cocktail of immunosuppressant medication to take, and I take a slimmer amount that most (for example, many transplant patients are put on the steroid prednisone, which I don't take, thankfully; it makes me incredibly jittery, among other things.)

Gurl I can't at the catch you just played  Glad you're owning your condition though!!!!

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Wow imagine someone who will donate one of their organs to you. This is beautiful.

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AMAZING

QUEEN

LOVING

MAD RESPECT

but i hope the side effects wont affect her career tho, im still looking forward to her sing fetish live!

[River 117,359]

Now her friend can buy the iPhone X, she sold her kidney

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20 minutes ago, River said:

Now her friend can buy the iPhone X, she sold her kidney

What makes you think she was paid for it? If it were my friend, I wouldn't accept any money.

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Just now, modern ecstasy said:

What makes you think she was paid for it? If it were my friend, I wouldn't accept any money.

Buy humor honey