Life on immunosupression medicines after having a kidney transplant.

David, you had your first kidney transplant 20 years ago and obviously after a transplant you're on immunosuppression tablets every day. Tell us about life on immunosuppression. Well it means that you have to be strict with yourself and not forget any morning or any evening to take the medication. But if I think about how did medication in general impact on me. I was on a lot of medication because my first transplant never really worked well. In fact I was told by the lead consultant, based on the creatinine values which were never less than 250, this kidney might not last more than a year. So you might be able to imagine I was on lots of other medication to bolster up whatever was going on or whatever was lacking in my body. So all of this medication left me with the feeling that whilst it's all doing a job to keep me as healthy as possible and keep me alive, it's also having other detrimental impacts on my body. But this is all over a period of time. Overall I think that the impact of all All of this medication left me very tired and so I had to summon up reserves of adrenaline to be able to carry on doing any kind of work but I felt tired most of the time and this really carried on for a full 18 years before my second transplant and I also have to say that again the last five years of living with my first transplant it was failing slowly over a period of time and I always felt I was looking over my shoulder wondering when is this going to fail on me when am I going to have to go back on dialysis this affected my wife and my life because we couldn't plan properly as we were always wondering what might happen next week next month.