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Living with ESRD will result in changes to many aspects of your life. How you handle these life changes and your feelings about kidney disease are important in that your ability to cope with kidney disease may impact the success of your treatment. Professional help, possibly someone such as a social worker, can be an important step to successfully adjusting to changes in your daily life
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- Managing Your Dialysis Care
- Work
- Exercise
- Travel
Managing Your Dialysis Care
Effectively coping with ESRD will require that you take some responsibility for day-to-day management of your renal care. Successful ESRD management can impact on the effectiveness of treatment and result in an improved quality of life.
However, self-management is a responsibility and it often requires that you work closely with other members of your family and various healthcare professionals. In addition, self-management requires that you become knowledgeable about the treatments you receive and other medical decisions that are made in relation to your care.
The above are intended to be general information and not intended to be treated as a diagnosis whatsoever. You are asked to seek professional medical advice relating to all questions on treatment, care, diagnosis and medication.