Kidney

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My experience with Western doctors that made me explore alternatives towards my health issues

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I would like to clarify that I am not saying Western treatment is bad. But I just wish to share some of my experience in seeking treatment and the attitude of some of the doctors that had made me explored alternative treatments. Include the doctor who tried to preach religion to me, another who dismissed my symptoms and another who asked me to go back each month to get my eyes checked (costing few hundred bucks each time) just because my mom had eye condition.

Kidney failure and the rising costs of dialysis and treatment

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Few days ago, a newspaper report appeared that a man strangles his two children and hangs himself after wife dies. It was believed that the man, R. Pubalan was a 52 years old liquid trader. His wife, P. Jeya suffered kidney failure and had been on dialysis for the past 4 years. After finding out his [...]

When illness, tragedy and grief pushes one towards personal transformation

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In this article, I want to share with you on how illness, personal tragedy, grief and loss can become a catalyst that eventually drive a person towards personal transformation and spiritual development. The journey would often take years with lots of ups and downs. It started for a friend of mine who was diagnosed with [...]

Kidney pain that went off with the extraction of a problem tooth

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Personally, I’ve been suffering from pain around my kidney area for a few years. It was worst during the days that I take lots of gourmet coffee like lattes and lead a highly stressed life. With stress reduction, the pain is there but lesser because I still could not give up coffee. The dull ache [...]

Kidney pain in the morning? Cut down your coffee intake

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If you suffer from kidney pain or discomfort in the morning, cut down your intake of coffee especially thick gourmet coffee. If you must have your daily cuppa in the morning, take the usual inexpensive coffee with relatively low caffeine content. And don’t drink coffee after 2pm in the afternoon. If you have been a [...]

Simple exercises to relief pain in the kidney area

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If you feel pain and discomfort at the kidney region, first you must do is to go and get a blood and urine test. Make sure your kidney function is okay. If nothing shows up in the tests, you may try some simple exercises- on the basis if the discomfort is resulted on some kind [...]

Drinking coffee when depressed and the effect on the kidneys

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Jude, a reader dropped a comment at my post Why there is pain in kidney area? From personal experience….  which I thought would be better to turn it into a post for the benefit of others who may be facing the same problems as her.  I would do my outmost to address her issues and concerns. Her [...]

Relieving lower back pain and pain in the kidney area

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A number of people suffer from pain in the kidney area, and yet do not know what is wrong. Even though test results may be normal, the pain is undeniably there, sometimes waking us up each morning to visit the bathroom to urinate. My uncle had suffered from lower back pain for so long- he [...]

Kidney failure due to ingesting poison – curable?

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This is a true story that had happened to my friend’s father.  He is from a small town located in another state. The family had a  farm which they plant vegetables to earn some side income. One day, my friend’s father tried to help her mother in mixing the pesticides to be used for the [...]

Chicken essence, acupuncture and kidney failure

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There was a real case told to me by my neighbor- there was an old lady was feeling very tired and fatigued. Her sons, being concerned for her, bought the Brands Essence of Chicken for her. After taking about 3 dozens of the essence everyday for about a month, she suffered from kidney failure. I did [...]