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| - - - - -In My Opinion * * * * * * * THE DISCOVERY of my use of vinegar in treating my kidney failure - causing my failed kidneys to begin functioning normally. |
I recovered from IgA Nephropathy, a.k.a. Glomerulonephritis
WITHOUT A KIDNEY TRANSPLANT |
Kidney failure shows up in a number of forms. To stay alive, the more serious kidney failure patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD), need to make dialysis part of their lives. I spent 4 months on hemodialysis treatments, and another 5 months on peritoneal dialysis. Somewhere during those 9 months my kidneys began functioning normally, and I was taken off of dialysis -- To be exact, I was taken off dialysis on August 22, 2002. |
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| Am I thankful? You bet I am. When you go on dialysis for ESRD, you are told there are only two ways to stop dialysis, i.e., you either meet your maker or you are one of the very few to receive a kidney transplant. Dialysis doesn't cure kidney failure, it lets you live a reasonably comfortable life while you wait for that kidney transplant. |
No one really cares about that information except for maybe the other people on dialysis who are not on the transplant list, and possibly the people just learning they have an irreversible kidney disease. |
There are a number of kidney diseases. I had IgA Nephropathy also called Glomerulonephritis. In addition, I have congestive heart failure, along with ventricular fibrillation (sudden death) for which I have an implanted Insync cardioverter fibrillator in my chest with three leads running into my heart. Heart failure made my chances for getting a kidney transplant next to impossible. Miracles still happen, and to this day, a little over four years after being taken off dialysis, the kidneys I was born with are again working normally. |
How did my kidneys start working again? Well, that's what I think is supposed to be asked of me, but nobody asks me any questions. I don't blame them. Unless kidney failure affects you or someone you know, it's just one of those diseases people seem to shy away from, and no questions are asked because very few people with normal kidney function know anything about kidney failure. |
In the past 4 years, I have researched kidney failure and treatments used for kidney failure.
I wrote a book on how I recovered from end stage renal disease (ESRD).
In doing so, I happened upon something that made me think, my nephrologist gave me and every patient he had excellent care, but I was the only one who recovered -----Without a kidney transplant!----- Think about it, something I did, that nobody else did, could have caused my kidneys to regain the ability to filter or work normally.
Read my book. You may discover something you could be doing to help you, or someone you know, experience kidney recovery the same way my kidney's recovered.
It is rare, but I and others have had our kidneys begin to function normally after extensive time with dialysis treatments.
For information on how to order the book, please click on the "Without A Transplant" web page on the navigation bar to the left.
(If you don't try something new -- you won't learn something new)
Be sure to click on the below link to "Biomedcentral". |
In my research on kidney treatments, I found that the Chinese have been treating kidney failure with vinegar for 3 thousand years, and I used vinegar for one of my home treatments -- No, I did not drink vinegar, but I hear that a lot of people do drink vinegar for treatment to ward off various diseases. The experimental Insync cardioverter fibrillator was also another factor in my recovery. Those two treatments plus a number of others I tried, including hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis, were kept track of in my daily diary and are discussed in my book. |
This information is important to those people with ESRD who are on dialysis and were told they are not eligible for a kidney transplant. When I was celebrating 2 years of being off dialysis and free of kidney disease, a friend of mine told me she had IgA nephropathy (ESRD), and she was starting hemodialysis. I told her I had the same kidney failure she had and that mine reversed two years ago. She told her nephrologist what I had told her, and his reply to her was "It didn't happen." That was not nice or true, and it put her in a very depressed mood, one that drove her to tears while talking to me the next week when I saw her at the bowling ally, because she had decided life wasn't worth living at that point. He basically told her, without dialysis she would die slowly, and he told her she wasn't eligible for a kidney transplant. Most doctors will not tell their patients about renal recovery because it is so rare, but it does happen, and I believe if I had known, I would not have been as depressed as I was. That is why I told my friend about my experience, and why I'm building this website. |
I showed her medical proof that I had had IgA Nephropathy, and that my kidneys recovered. She took that proof, and the information now avaliable on "renal recovery" from the research center in Texas (see: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2369/4/9 ) to her nephrologist and he read it. He then told her the chances for her to recover are not good, but she is now on hemodialysis and using the vinegar with the knowledge it is a shot in the dark, and she is willing to give it a try. |
In my book research, I came across a person who has worked for the National Kidney Foundation in New York for the past 25 years. I told her of my research and she told me what I had felt as a lack of interest in my experience of renal recovery may really be more of a concern within the medical community about unrealistically raising patients' expectations.
Then and now, I personally do not believe in that point of view. But, after hearing her reasoning -- I can understand why my friends doctor told her what he did.
Still, common sense tells me -- People need HOPE... |
I can't get any research center to look at what I found so I'll do a grass-roots thing and take it to the people affected with kidney failure. I can be reached at the following: |
Jack H. Rothwell
Contact me |
| A very important item in my recovery has nothing to do with "who treated who" or what procedures were performed. No, it has to to with something my wife Joanne insisted I do. She told me I had to become "PRO-ACTIVE" in my own care. There are a number circumstances envolved in the miraculous reversal of my kidney disease, but I have to give credit for something that without which, I would not be here. Joanne insisted I become involved in the medicines I took, making and transporting myself to and from the multitude of doctors appointments I had to succumb to, and all the other details like food I ate, and normal self-hygiene. Note: becoming Pro-active turned on something that made me want to survive, I can't explain what that something is, but without it, knowing I had terminal heart disease and dialysis for the rest of my life, I do believe I would have given up and stopped the dialysis treatments I was taking. It would have been dumb, but it was an eazy-out option. |
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