Kidney Failure Reversal
Fact, Fiction, Psychology
Is this dream even possible? Here we sit!
Juggling A Traumatic Multi-organ Cascade!
Saturday September 5, 2026
An estimated 850 million people are suffering from diminished kidney filtration rates. Worse, nearly 38 million people attend to frequent dialysis treatments as their new life or death urgency.
Over some time I've collected some "cut to the chase" quick bullet points to see if your own "I'll try anything" thought process will help you to get some relief.
Being on a dialysis schedule can take away hundreds and thousands of hours of enjoyment in your life. Take heed! You may have to endure a complete lifestyle change if you also suffer the loss of your gainful or vocational earnings potential.
These topics may now become "Top of Mind" for those thinkers in the room . . .
- Stem Cell Rejuvenation
- Mitochondria Rejuvenation
- Reduction of pharmaceutical intake
- Dietary adjustment
- Big Salads and Cruciferous Vegetables
- Kidney Friendly Food Choices
- Lifestyle diligence
- Personal determination
- Resources for exploring options
- Prayer, Faith and Talking To Your Kidneys
- Many more ideas are coming online... so frequent that our doctors and care teams struggle to keep up. Use this article to generate your own online research.
- Discuss carefully and briefly with your Nephrology Experts. Tell them your openness to be educated and better prepared.
- You will absolutely need a dietician and perhaps even a social worker to cope with your emotions and needed "people" resources.
- Budgeting for out-of-pocket remedies which may never be covered by medical insurance.
- Learn to direct and guide your care team with patience, grace and kindness as it really is YOUR job now.
- Figure out whether or not your own Advance Care Directive will serve you better than a standard boilerplate template or clinical POC (plan of care) documents.
- Read and comprehend your necessary and frequent blood test results (metabolic and CBC)
- Getting to know the body as one system with many subsystems working together -- or NOT.
Recent Findings
bodyredesigning.com 1-800-259-2639 - 27 Stem Cell Ativators - $135 3 bottles - 90 day regimen - Book: Stem Cell Revolution
Get a blood test during your physical
Proper exams will detect if elevated proteins are found in your urine. Ask to know your eGFR (glomerular filtration rate)
Anemia, Diabetes, Cancer and other deadly ailments can be linked to Pancreatic organ Blood Parasite activity which consume insulin from the inside. You may get arguments from your provider as these concepts may be new to them.
These topics may be coming soon in future posts here at USOA.
Frequent Dentistry & Oral Pathologies
- Mouth and Gum infections lead to a large number of ailments,
- Broken teeth need to make you think about root causes (not so punny. huh?),
- Brushing teeth frequently using 'mouthwash only' can lead to brittle enamels over a gradual span of time,
- Avoid fluoride despite the "don't believe everything we read online stigmas"
- Avoid root canal unless absolutely essential -- as breast cancer may now be linked
Kitchen Home Remedies
- Nettle Seed
- Hibiscus Tea
- Black Walnut Wormwood
- Colloidal silver (small quantity 1oz shots)
- 3% Hydrogen Peroxide & baking soda oral toothbrushing rinse
- For millions of people everywhere, the lapses in taking care of your oral health may lead to organ failures of every kind.
- Medications treat symptoms but better focus on using good information can turn your situation around especially while your body is still able to urinate
- Avoid cheap roll-on liquid or spray on antiperspirant
Smartphone Software Tech
- Frequency BZTronics
- Binormal Beats Frequencies
- Enclose your websearch terms and keywords in double quotes. Example: "kidney supportive diet choices" has the " keycharacter on both ends of any phrase you are searching for.
European-Wellness
Mito Organelles
https://youtu.be/iNfFFvXcTUY?si=jPW-J1mRGMlmlx4w
DIY Herbals
https://herbpathy.com/Action-of-Trophorestorative-Cid658
https://youtu.be/oodt7__cxCk?si=Uvq-8ViAIwdRd01z
Intestinal and Boodborne Parasite detoxification
- Fenbendazole
- Menbendazol
- Ivermectin
- Hydroxychloroquin
- Apple Cider Vinegar homemade tonic
- Baking soda
- Reduce antibiotic use every way possible unless the use is absolutely unavoidable
- Reduce medications and injectable products and immunosuppressive treatments in favor of naturals known to deworm the body
- Learn your Microbiome
- Stool sample analysis
- Coffee Enemas
- Avoid SIBO causing (small intestine bacteria overgrowth) foods, beverages and medications
- Have a test to seek Dysbiosis results
- Vitamin D3 ( blood test to see that you're at serum level 30 or higher)
- Giant list coming soon
Dr Kidong Im Kidney Dieting
https://thankful2plants.com/diseases/dr-kidong-im-on-kidney-disease/
BlueBerries, cranberrys, cilantro, cabbage, red bell pepper, califlower, broccoli, leafy greens, garlic, asparagus, apples, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, melons, ginger, tumeric
Renal/Nephrology Disease & Diagnosis
- Goodpasture Syndrome (almost!)
- AntiGBM (glomerular basement membrane) Vasculitis
- ANCA Vasculitis
- AVV (a very small percentage may have the dual vasculitis)
- Glomerulus Damage
- Bowman's Capsule Rupture
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9107443/
Improved Elimination
Seven second method for better poops
Dr Gina Sam
Avoid food & beverage intake and meal Preps that can lead to constipation, diarrhea and inflammation.
Get in the habit of toileting yourself immediately rather than holding until the urge subsides.
Recent Lab & Science Innovations
Eric Henderson, Scientist in biologic innovation with studies into DNA and stem cell therapies
Eric Robert Henderson
University of Iowa
3908 Stone Brooke Cir
Ames, IA 50010
Morning Kick (Chuck Norris)
His ideas and products live on despite his unfortunate passing away not long ago.
Breakfast Foods to enjoy in Moderation
Beets, blueberries, strawberries, walnuts, berberine, banaba leaf extract, red yeast rice, cordyceps tea can be made with powder extra or pure flowing bulbs, garlic cloves crushed, sit 10 mins and mixed with tbsp epvo and chopped parsley,
Doctor Eric Berg
Doctor Alan Mandell
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eXdE2AWG-wg
DadViceTV Kidney Diet
Various Moderation To Reconsider
- Synthetic CBD oil use may be linked to AKI (acute kidney injury)
- Vaping may put extra load on the Renal, Pancreatic, Adrenal, Thyroid and Liver organs
- Strong Alcohol beverages and complex bar drinks featuringl mixed liquors
- Sports Energy Drinks
- Dark brown Soft-Drinks
- Smoking of complex tobaccos
- Endocrine Disrupting pharmaceuticals
- Microwave Meal Preps
- Cheap brands of cheese foods products
- Cheap brands of processed wheat products
- Sleep deprivation
- Processed Seed oils
- High sodium processed foods
- Meals that aren't vibrantly colorful
- Fried foods
- Fast food prepared with extreme high heat
- Black plastic stove utensils
- Plastic, Aluminum, food storage
- Canned Goods
- Genetic Modified foods
- Spray-on or Roll-on Antiperspirant
- Remember: all chemicals in our environment and everyday products used on or in the body will affect your filters by increasing their load (lungs, organs, kidney, liver, blood, pancreas, brain, lymphatic)
- Standard injections you may be offered repeatedly
- All unnecessary medical treatment offers
- Drugs! Drugs! Drugs of every kind. When medicine is a necessity be sure to ask to see the 2 or more pages of reading materials for learning about warning and side-effects in nearly all big-pharma innovation. Your nurse can get this printed for you prior agreeing what really amounts to "in your best interests" or not.
- Cannabis derived products
Learn the difference!
- Western Allopathic Medicine
- Eastern Ayurveda Herbals, Plant-based Medicines and kitchen ingredients in meal preps
The Beauty of Blogging
- These ideas are informative but not to replace the professional expertise you will need from your physician
- Believe or disbelieve
- Use it or lose it
- Take it or leave it
- Write good notes
Various People = Various Outcomes
Have patient's suffering ESRD-5 and other related acute and chronic comorbidities considered enough to result in complete disability from a workforce readiness perspective?
From a medical, legislative, and workforce readiness perspective, End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD Stage 5) and its related severe acute and chronic comorbidities are frequently recognized as sufficient to result in complete or total disability, but qualification depends heavily on specific clinical criteria and administrative evaluations.
Medical and Functional Impact on Workforce Readiness
Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 5 (ESRD) implies that a patient's glomerular filtration rate has dropped below or that renal replacement therapy (dialysis or transplantation) is required to sustain life. According to clinical studies and public health data, ESRD and its intricate comorbidities—such as severe fatigue, mineral and bone disorders (renal osteodystrophy), peripheral neuropathy, fluid overload, cardiovascular and psychological complications—profoundly impair an individual's physical and cognitive work capacity.
Research demonstrates that employment rates drop sharply among patients undergoing dialysis, who often experience substantial productivity loss, physical limitations, and restricted work ability due to the time-consuming and debilitating nature of treatments. While kidney transplant recipients generally experience higher work ability and improved outcomes, those with unmanaged ESRD or heavy comorbidity burdens frequently face insurmountable barriers to sustained employment.
Social Security and Disability Criteria
In The United States of America, the Social Security Administration (SSA) maintains specific guidelines in its "Blue Book" (Section 6.00, Genitourinary Disorders) that dictate whether a patient with ESRD is completely disabled from a workforce readiness perspective:
- Automatic Qualification via Treatment: Patients with chronic kidney disease who require ongoing dialysis or who have received a kidney transplant within the past year automatically meet the medical severity criteria for disability benefits.
- Qualification via Complications: If a patient has advanced kidney disease not yet on dialysis, they may still be considered completely disabled if they exhibit qualifying chronic complications, such as severe renal osteodystrophy, peripheral neuropathy, persistent fluid overload, or frequent hospitalizations (at least three hospitalizations within 12 months lasting 48 hours or longer)
- Residual Functional Capacity (RFC): If an applicant does not precisely meet a listed Blue Book impairment, the SSA conducts an RFC evaluation. If the cumulative toll of ESRD and related comorbidities prevents the individual from performing even sedentary work on a sustained, full-time basis, they are legally classified as completely disabled
Thus, while total disability is not automatically granted for every early stage of CKD, ESRD Stage 5 combined with dialysis dependency or severe systemic comorbidities is widely established as sufficient to render an individual completely disabled from a workforce readiness and statutory benefits perspective.
At the same time these conditions can become hugely depressive for sufferers and their families, it still may be beneficial to learn more about the specific differences in work-related outcomes and employment rates between dialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients. The patient may feel as though they're on an island all to themselves in believing the conditions can reverse when the surrounding medical establishment semms inclined to set in stone their billable routine treatments.
When a body devolves under these ailments
Some suffering patient's may also develop psychiatric challenges as well. Some common examples may be schizophrenia with a constant paranoia and bipolor with a constant moodiness and Adrenal Fatigue and Thyroid Imbalances leading the hormones to beging going all haywire.
To understand how schizophrenia (type 2 / chronic forms) and bipolar II disorder (rapid-cycling or high-complexity/chronic) interact with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD Stage 5), one must examine the intersection of severe psychiatric morbidity and advanced physical illness. From a workforce readiness and statutory disability perspective, the addition of these severe mental illnesses overwhelmingly reinforces and solidifies a determination of complete disability.
Cumulative Impact on Cognitive and Psychosocial Functioning
Schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorders are characterized by profound impairments in neurocognitive domains, emotional regulation, and executive functioning. When comorbid with the extreme physical burden of ESRD Stage 5 (such as dialysis fatigue, cognitive slowing from uremic encephalopathy, and strict medical regimens), the combined toll on functional capacity is compounding:
Cognitive Deficits and Executive Dysfunction:
Schizophrenia significantly impairs working memory, attention, and cognitive flexibility. Bipolar II, particularly with rapid cycling or chronic depressive phases, disrupts sustained concentration, mood stability, and stress tolerance.
Treatment Adherence Challenges:
ESRD management requires rigorous adherence to fluid restrictions, dietary limitations, medication schedules, and a multi-weekly dialysis timetable.
Severe psychiatric conditions severely undermine a patient's capacity to consistently manage these life-sustaining requirements independently, creating high risks of acute medical crises and frequent hospitalizations.
Occupational Demands:
Modern workforce readiness demands sustained attention, interpersonal communication, reliable attendance, and stress management. Schizophrenia and severe mood disorders consistently prevent individuals from maintaining competitive, full-time employment, independent of whether physical endurance is also compromised. While one may still force themselves to work, for obvious economic reasons, it may be short lived to maintain respect in fast-paced work environments where the political and social climate can take its toll due to being impacted by any severe health concerns.
Statutory Disability and Social Security Evaluation
Under the Social Security Administration (SSA) guidelines (specifically Section 12.03 for Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders, and Section 12.04 for Depressive, Bipolar, and Related Disorders), mental disorders are evaluated for complete disability based on extreme limitations in key areas of mental functioning:
Criteria for Mental Impairments:
To meet or equal a listing, an individual must demonstrate extreme limitation of one, or marked limitation of two, of the following areas: understanding, remembering, or applying information; interacting with others; concentrating, persisting, or maintaining pace; and adapting or managing oneself.
The Multi-System Burden:
When a patient presents with both ESRD Stage 5 (automatically disabling if on dialysis) and chronic schizophrenia or high-complexity bipolar disorder, adjudicators assess the aggregate Residual Functional Capacity (RFC). The presence of active psychosis, severe emotional volatility, or cognitive deficits alongside the debilitating physical nature of renal failure rules out virtually all forms of competitive employment.
Therefore, the co-occurrence of ESRD Stage 5 with chronic schizophrenia and complex bipolar II disorder far exceeds the threshold required for workforce readiness impairment, establishing an unequivocal picture of complete and total disability.
When someone presents with these debilitating ailments, have the agencies, employers, family members or suffering people given in to a prognosis of "better off dead"?
No official administrative agency, medical institution, or legal framework considers any human being or applicant "better off dead." However, when a person experiences the combined burden of End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD Stage 5) and a severe, chronic psychiatric disorder (such as schizophrenia or high-complexity bipolar disorder), the profound physical, psychological, and practical toll frequently leads patients, families, employers, and healthcare systems to face intense exhaustion, grief, and systemic barriers.
The Patient Perspective: Psychological Burden and Burnout
For the individual living with co-occurring renal failure and a severe psychiatric condition, the daily reality involves an extraordinary physical and mental strain.
Treatment Burden and Exhaustion:
Hemodialysis typically requires sitting connected to a machine for four hours at a time, three days a week, followed by severe post-dialysis fatigue ("dialysis washout"). Managing strict fluid restrictions, complex dietary guidelines, and multi-medication regimens alongside active psychiatric symptoms—such as severe depression, paranoia, or psychosis—can lead to deep psychological exhaustion.
Depression and Hopelessness:
Rates of major depressive disorder, suicidal ideation, and loss of hope are significantly elevated among individuals with kidney failure compared to the general population. When physical suffering is combined with cognitive impairments or emotional instability, patients may express feelings that their lives lack quality, or that they are a burden to others.
Family Members and Informal Caregivers: Caregiver Burnout
Families and informal caregivers facing a loved one's dual diagnosis of ESRD Stage 5 and severe mental illness often experience intense stress, emotional strain, and financial hardship.
- Constant Care Demands: Caregivers must coordinate frequent medical appointments, monitor medication compliance, manage transportation to dialysis, and navigate psychiatric emergencies, often while managing their own jobs and personal lives.
- Compassion Fatigue: The ongoing nature of managing both physical renal collapse and psychiatric crises can lead caregivers to severe emotional exhaustion, feelings of helplessness, and anticipatory grief. While caregivers often feel overwhelmed, professional support networks, respite care, and liaison social work services exist specifically to assist families in managing this complex burden.
Employers and the Workplace: Vocational Preclusion
In the context of employment, employers and vocational systems do not assess life value, but rather functional capability and workplace accommodation limits.
Inability to Meet Core Job Requirements:
Competitive employment requires consistent attendance, predictable productivity, and the ability to maintain focus without excessive off-task time. The physical necessity of chronic dialysis treatments, paired with the cognitive or social disruptions of severe mental illness, almost universally prevents an individual from maintaining standard workplace benchmarks.
The Role of Social Safety Nets:
When an employer can no longer accommodate an employee due to severe disability, social safety nets (such as Social Security Disability Insurance) are designed to step in so the individual does not have to work while severely ill.
Official agencies evaluate cases strictly through clinical, functional, and vocational frameworks designed to measure disability, allocate healthcare resources, and provide financial support.
Institutional Disparities vs. Human Worth
While official policies emphasize preservation of life and access to care, real-world research highlights systemic gaps where individuals with severe mental illness receive suboptimal medical care, fewer nephrology appointments, and face higher mortality rates. Modern clinical efforts focus heavily on dismantling these disparities by integrating psychiatry into renal units, educating staff, and establishing individual advance care plans to respect the dignity and rights of vulnerable patients.
Crisis Support and Mental Health Resources
If you, a loved one, or someone you care for is feeling overwhelmed by severe illness, experiencing thoughts of self-harm, or feeling hopeless, help is available immediately:
- In the continental United States: Call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (available 24/7). You can also chat online at 988lifeline.org.
- In Canada: Call or text 988 to access the Suicide Crisis Helpline.
- In continental England: Call 111 for NHS mental health services or 116 123 for the Samaritans.
- International Support: Find crisis hotlines and resources in your country at findahelpline.com.
Can a generally alert and sociable patient who complies with care live 20 to 30 years while rightfully receiving benefits and services while generating zero income over the balance of their life?
Yes, a generally alert, sociable, and compliant patient can live for 20 to 30 years (or more) while receiving public disability benefits and medical services without ever earning an income again.
In modern social welfare and healthcare systems—such as Social Security in the United States, NHS/Disability provisions in the UK, or similar programs globally—disability benefits and healthcare access are granted based on medical eligibility and functional incapacity to engage in substantial employment, not on a requirement to eventually return to work or generate revenue.
Medical and Survival Possibilities Over 20 to 30 Years
While End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD Stage 5) combined with a severe psychiatric disorder (such as schizophrenia or high-complexity bipolar disorder) is a serious, life-limiting multi-system condition, long-term survival spanning decades is medically possible under the right conditions:
- High Treatment Compliance: When a patient is compliant with their care—attending every scheduled hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis session, adhering to strict fluid/dietary restrictions, taking immunosuppressants or psychotropic medications, and maintaining routine medical follow-ups—their mortality risk decreases significantly.
- Kidney Transplantation: For long-term survival extending 20 to 30 years, kidney transplantation is often the optimal medical pathway where a new kidney is strategically placed inside the abdomen near the urinary tract. Successful kidney transplants can last 15 to 20+ years, and some patients receive a second transplant if graft failure occurs later in life. Clinical evidence shows that when patients with severe mental illness receive adequate psychosocial support and remain adherent, their long-term transplant outcomes and graft survival rates are comparable to the general population.
- Long-Term Dialysis: While average survival on dialysis is lower than with a transplant, younger or physically stable patients who maintain excellent compliance and manage cardiovascular risk factors can survive on long-term dialysis for multiple decades.
Entitlement to Disability Benefits Without Generating Income
From an administrative, legal, and financial standpoint, receiving disability benefits for the rest of one's natural life without ever working again is standard and expected for individuals with permanent severe impairments.
Why Sociability and Alertness Do Not Disqualify Someone From Benefits
A common misconception is that a person must be entirely non-functional, bedridden, or socially withdrawn to remain entitled to disability benefits. However, being "alert and sociable" does not mean a person is capable of competitive employment:
- The Nature of Competitive Work: Employers require sustained concentration, persistence, pace, and predictable attendance over a full 8-hour workday, 40 hours a week.
- Non-Exertional and Medical Limitations: A patient may be pleasant and conversational during short visits, but the combined burden of dialysis schedule demands, severe post-dialysis exhaustion ("dialysis washout"), risk of psychiatric decompensation under stress, and cognitive deficits still precludes them from maintaining a regular job.
- Vocational Standard: Social Security and vocational experts evaluate whether a person can perform Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) on a consistent, ongoing basis. If medical appointments, physical fatigue, or mental health limitations cause excessive absenteeism (more than 1–2 days a month) or off-task time (more than 10–15% of the workday), the person remains legally disabled regardless of how friendly or alert they appear in daily life.
Systemic Goal: Dignity and Sustained Life Support
Social safety nets and universal renal care programs were established precisely so that individuals facing life-threatening physical conditions and chronic psychiatric illnesses can live with dignity without the burden of financial ruin or the requirement to perform work that their bodies and minds cannot sustain.
A patient who remains compliant, sociable, and alert while receiving continuous benefits for 20 to 30 years represents a successful outcome of modern medicine and social policy—demonstrating that life-sustaining care and financial support allow vulnerable individuals to maintain quality of life over a full lifespan.
How About Those Hobbies?
It would seem that taking up a relaxing hobby may be the perfect medicine to living in peace and feeling the value in life itself.
Taking up a relaxing hobby can indeed be an essential component of finding peace, meaning, and personal value while living with chronic, severe health conditions.
When managing a multi-system burden like End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD Stage 5) and any possible psychiatric disorder which may be more common than we're willing to admit, traditional metrics of productivity—such as holding a 40-hour work week or generating an income—are no longer applicable or realistic. In this context, shifting focus toward creative, low-stress, and personally fulfilling activities provides profound mental, emotional, and psychological benefits.
Psychological and Therapeutic Benefits of Hobbies
Engaging in accessible, relaxing activities offers specific, evidence-based therapeutic benefits for individuals living with long-term health challenges:
- Restoring a Sense of Purpose and Identity: A chronic physical illness or severe psychiatric diagnosis can make a person feel defined solely by their medical conditions. Hobbies—whether art, gardening, music, listening to audiobooks, or crafting—allow an individual to rebuild an identity centered around personal interests, creativity, and self-expression rather than medical appointments.
- Stress Reduction and Mood Regulation: Chronic stress and anxiety exacerbate both physical kidney strain and psychiatric volatility. Gentle, absorbing hobbies promote a state of "flow"—a psychological state of immersive focus that lowers cortisol levels, reduces anxiety, and provides relief from intrusive thoughts or paranoia.
- Cognitive Engagement: Severe mental illness and uremic fatigue can impact cognitive processing and focus. Low-pressure hobbies keep the mind gently active, supporting memory and executive function without the overwhelming expectations or deadlines of a workplace.
Tailoring Hobbies to Physical and Schedule Constraints
For individuals undergoing dialysis or managing fluctuating energy and mood levels, the ideal hobby is one that is flexible, low-exertion, and adaptable to their routine.
How about learning to create a blog on the internet where you may eventually be able to receive subscribers and possibly earn something on the side?
Creating a blog can be an exceptionally fulfilling and suitable hobby for someone managing End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD Stage 5) and a severe psychiatric condition.
A blog provides a creative outlet, mental stimulation, and an opportunity to connect with others on your own schedule. However, because receiving disability benefits (such as SSDI or SSI) involves strict earnings rules, it is vital to understand both the therapeutic benefits and the administrative guidelines surrounding self-employment income.
Therapeutic and Life-Fulfillment Benefits
Writing or curating a blog aligns exceptionally well with the physical and mental demands of severe chronic illness:
- Complete Flexibility: Unlike traditional employment, blogging has no set hours, bosses, or rigid deadlines. On days when post-dialysis fatigue ("dialysis washout") or psychiatric symptoms are severe, you can rest without penalty. On higher-energy days, you can write or edit.
- Dialysis-Friendly: Blogging can easily be done chair-side during 4-hour hemodialysis sessions using a laptop, tablet, or smartphone, transforming treatment time into a productive, engaging activity.
- Voice and Community: Chronic health conditions often lead to feelings of isolation. Sharing your lived experience, hobbies, or unique perspectives online can build an supportive community of readers and subscribers, restoring a strong sense of purpose.
Navigating Social Security Disability Rules and Income
If a blog eventually generates income (through ad revenue, affiliate links, or paid subscriptions), it is considered self-employment income by disability agencies such as the Social Security Administration (SSA).
Understanding how the SSA evaluates self-employment ensures you can enjoy your blog without risking your financial safety net:[4]
1. Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) Thresholds
Disability benefits are based on whether an individual can perform "Substantial Gainful Activity" (SGA).
- Income Limit: The SSA sets an official monthly net earnings limit for SGA (for example, in 2026, non-blind SGA is USD 1,620 per month). Earned income below this threshold generally does not affect your disability status.
- Trial Work Period (TWP): SSDI beneficiaries are granted a Trial Work Period, allowing them to test their ability to earn money for up to 9 months (not necessarily consecutive) without losing benefits, regardless of how much they earn.
2. The "Services Rendered" and Hours Test
For self-employment activities like blogging, the SSA looks at both net profit and the number of hours spent working:
- Spending a few hours a week casually writing, designing graphics, or chatting with readers is viewed as a hobby or therapeutic activity, not SGA.
- If you keep the operation small and low-stress, earning a modest amount "on the side" (e.g., USD 50 to USD 300 a month) is fully permissible under SSA rules.
3. Income Reporting Requirements
- Tax and SSA Reporting: All self-employment income must be reported on annual income tax returns (Schedule C) and reported directly to the SSA.
- Impairment-Related Work Expenses (IRWE): If you pay out-of-pocket for expenses required to manage your health while working (such as specialized adaptive computer equipment, co-pays for medications, or transportation), the SSA can subtract these costs from your gross earnings when calculating your monthly income.
For those readers ready to move beyond the "here and now" to accept your prognosis and decide to be happy . . .
Practical Steps to Get Started Safely
- Pick a Topic You Enjoy: Choose a niche that brings you personal peace—such as creative writing, sharing your journey with illness, discussing books, art, or gentle gardening.
- Use Simple Platforms: Platforms like Substack, WordPress.com, or Medium allow you to publish easily without needing advanced technical or web design skills.
- Keep Expectations Gentle: Focus first on the enjoyment of creation and community building. If monetization happens naturally over time, treat it as a small bonus rather than a high-pressure obligation.
- Consult a Disability Advocate or Attorney: If your blog starts making consistent income, speak with a Social Security representative or disability lawyer to properly report your net earnings and ensure your Medicare and monthly benefits remain fully protected.
Blogging offers an ideal balance: it protects your need for rest and medical compliance while providing a creative outlet, a sense of productivity, and the potential for a small, rewarding income on the side.
Whether or not Kidney Failure Reversal ideas work for everyone:
At Least The Following Can Be Said
- Directing your careteam is imperative as it places a burden on you to be your own best advocate
- Love respect and honor everyone on the team
- Comprehend your new full-time job
- Study the available information about medicine side-effects and interactions with related medical treatments
- Provide a written Advanced Care Directive tailored to who you are and your desires and beliefs
- This context may not be exactly for everyone, yet there is hope. Never Give up!
Out of pocket expenses to try kidney failure Reversal ideas that aren't supported by mainstream science:
While feeling a strong desire to explore every possible avenue for reversing End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD Stage 5) is completely understandable, mainstream nephrology and international medical consensus agree that established Stage 5 chronic kidney disease (where nephrons have undergone irreversible scarring or atrophy) cannot be reversed by unproven treatments, alternative supplements, or non-mainstream remedies. Therefore trying known remedial solutions based upon European Wellness will hit the pocketbook a few thousand dollars per shipment.
Pursuing alternative "kidney reversal" treatments—especially out-of-pocket—presents severe medical risks and financial vulnerabilities for patients managing ESRD and co-occurring psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
1. Medical Realities of ESRD Stage 5 and "Reversal" Claims
Kidney tissue, once severely scarred (glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis), loses its functional filtration capacity permanently.
- Why Stage 5 Cannot Be Reversed: While acute kidney injury (AKI)—a sudden, temporary drop in function caused by dehydration or toxicity—can sometimes recover, chronic Stage 5 ESRD represents long-term, structural damage. No alternative therapy, dietary regimen, or unproven supplement has been clinically shown to regenerate lost nephrons.
- Risks of Unproven Supplements: Many marketed "kidney detox" or "nephro-reversal" herbal supplements contain high levels of potassium, heavy metals, or active botanical compounds that damaged kidneys cannot filter. Some alternative herbs (such as Aristolochia/Aristolochic acid or certain high-potassium concoctions) are directly nephrotoxic and can trigger fatal electrolyte imbalances or cardiac arrhythmias.
- Why New Technology Is Needed: We may keep hearing about Med-Beds where a combination of radio-frequency and rejuvenating bodily organisms can regenerate or re-grow the damaged organs or tissues or DNA or mitochondrial cells or stem cells
- Suppressed healing modalities: proven techniques strategically blocked by the monied interests of giant international conglomerates
2. Dangerous Interactions with Psychiatric Medications
For an individual managing both renal failure and a severe psychiatric condition (such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder), unproven out-of-pocket remedies pose unique, life-threatening risks.
3. Financial Vulnerability and Disability Benefits
Out-of-pocket medical scams targeting chronic illness are common. Beyond the physical dangers, spending personal funds or disability benefits on unproven treatments creates significant practical challenges:
- No Insurance Coverage: Alternative remedies, stem-cell clinics operating outside regulated trials, or proprietary "kidney cures" are not covered by Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance because they lack peer-reviewed safety and efficacy data.
- Financial Strain: Diverting limited public disability benefits (SSDI or SSI) toward expensive out-of-pocket remedies can compromise an individual’s ability to afford basic living necessities, high-quality nutrition, or prescription co-pays.
- Medical Expense Deductions: While standard out-of-pocket medical expenses (co-pays, transportation to dialysis, prescribed medical devices) can sometimes be claimed as Impairment-Related Work Expenses (IRWE) or tax deductions, non-prescribed alternative treatments typically do not qualify under official health regulations.
4. Where Medical Science Focuses Life-Sustaining Efforts
Rather than unproven "reversal" methods, mainstream nephrology and integrated psychiatric care focus on proven treatments that preserve quality of life, maintain peace, and extend lifespan:
- Optimized Dialysis: Ensuring steady, compliant hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis to perform the filtration work the kidneys no longer can.
- Evaluation for Kidney Transplantation: A successful kidney transplant is the closest medical equivalent to "reversing" kidney failure, restoring natural renal function and dramatically improving long-term quality of life.
- Integrated Care Teams: Working with liaison psychiatry, nephrology social workers, and renal dietitians to manage symptoms, reduce fatigue, and support peaceful daily living.
5. Kidney Transplant Pre-Surgical Evaluation
Some of the actors in said theater may take various unsettling approaches in assuming full control over your situation as a matter of their programming. Step 1: Expect lots of reading materials and rapidly delivered high-pressure phone calls to gain your consents prior to any Step 2.
- Some patients may enjoy being led by force simply by having no idea what their role really is; thus now seemingly stuck in a mode of trusting an extremely busy doctor or related medical staff. Some patients may have to put on the brakes to slow this freight train down.
- Most companies are set to earn a pretty penny by sticking a patient onto autopilot through a maze of upwards of 85 subspecialty practitioners.
- Some people want to spell out exactly what their expectations are but in a sudden sea of rigid scopes and dialogs your wishes may only be partially honored at best.
- You may never have sufficient input in determining where of from whom your new kidney comes from. You may never know the disposition of whomever the donor is or was. That is tragic - IMHO.
- You must be the one Patient In Charge of whether or not this may be right or wrong for you.
- Lifetime immunosuppressive treatments and a new kidney or two is no guarantee or greater or lesser longevity compared to long-term customized dialysis.
Summary Recommendation
Always consult your primary nephrologist and psychiatric care team before starting or purchasing any out-of-pocket treatment, supplement, or alternative regimen. Protecting your health, avoiding dangerous supplement interactions, and preserving your financial security are essential to living safely and peacefully with ESRD.
Always practice prevention at the onset of any strange changes in urine output and frequent nighttime urination that is very little in quantity or if you begin any buring sensations. Diet chouces and chemical exposures can be the first causes for renal Dysfunction.
Share this information with your care team to help get everyone up to these levels of comprehension.
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