How long does a person with kidney disease live

[Unknown]

Do you know someone who has/had kidney disease? If so how long did they live? How many kidney transplants did they receive, 1? 2? 3?Or are you a doctor who knows statistics. I would really like to know how long people usually live if they had kidney failure as a young child and had a transplant and now need another kidney transplant. How long can that person really expect to live?

[JEFF V]

I have had patients live out a normal life span after kidney transplant. I know of two patients who had to have second transplants because their body rejected the first one. If the second (or third) transplant is not rejected, a normal life span would be expected.Of course, the real answer to your question is until they die. All of us will die a physical death and only God in Heaven knows when that will be.

[John D]

Even if they don't get a Kidney, there is dialysis. You can live to be quite old as long as you are dialysed and follow a strict diet, it is not easy, since traditional dialysis is 3 days a week for 3-4 hrs at a time and it can leave you quite weak; there is also peritoneal dialysis that is more under the control of the patient and hence has more freedom

[Medusa]

not long, my sister died after 5 yrs of dialysis