At what point does one start dialysis?
Hi everyone,
I'm writing because I'm concerned that my mother's medical team may not be taking her condition seriously enough.
She has stage 5 kidney disease and an eGFR of 5. Over the past two days, she has experienced some chest pain (she thinks it may be related to a ruptured liver cyst) and has also developed a broken blood vessel in her eye, which appeared spontaneously.
Given how low her kidney function is, I would have expected her to be monitored more closely. She has contacted both her doctor and the nurses' station, but so far she hasn't received much guidance. Her doctor, who used to respond to emails very quickly, seems to have been quite unavailable recently.
She isn't feeling too unwell at the moment, but I'm worried that with an eGFR of 5 she should perhaps already be on dialysis.
Is there anything else we should be doing, or any signs that would warrant more urgent medical attention?
Thank you for any advice.