Is there any limit to the number of kidney transplants a patient can have? I've been hearing of more patients with two or three transplants.

What, in your opinion, should the maximum number be? If a person keeps rejecting transplants, should they keep getting them?

I am also concerned about this, especially if they are rejecting because of poor choices (ie not taking antirejection medications). Why should they get two or three kidneys when someone else hasn't had one?

Actually, I was talking about people with diseases that destroy the transplant, like MPGN.

I seem to recall a news story several years ago when Larry Hagman (Dallas) had a liver transplant. He openly said that he would not stop drinking and would not change his way of life. The issue was, if transplant patients knowing did things that put the transplanted organs at risk, should they be allowed to be put back on the transplant list when their organ failed?

I believe that if the organ is lost die to the patient putting it at risk through choices that they make, they should not be allowed to get another transplant. If they loose the organ due to situations beyond their control, I believe they should.

The compliance issue is part of the reason that I've taken my name off of the transplant list-- I know I wouldn't be 100% compliant with the meds. Do you think my doctors appreciated my honesty? NO! They continued to try to 'talk me into it' for another THREE YEARS after my initial decision to drop my name from the transplant list. I don't get it-- I did everything I could to convince them that I'd be a bad risk, and they still insisted that I 'needed' a kidney! What would be the point of doing a transplant when the patient is telling you that she won't take her meds consistently?