147210login-checkDoes Timing Matter When Taking Anti-Rejection Medications for Your Transplanted Kidney or Heart? |
Having an organ transplant can feel like a new lease on life!
You find that you can suddenly do more of the things that you enjoy. However, new recipients are sometimes overwhelmed with all the requirements of post-transplant living.
Protecting your new gift requires some discipline and consistency. As a new transplant recipient, you become keenly aware of things like:
- Water-intake levels
- Urine-output measurements
- Changes in weight
- Blood-pressure levels
- Blood-sugar levels
To maintain the health of your transplanted organ, it is important that you take your immunosuppressant (anti-rejection) medications, but also at the same times each day.
Anti-rejection medications help to tame your body’s ability to attack and potentially damage your transplanted organ. To accomplish this, however, anti-rejection medications need to be taken:
- Every day
- At the same times
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