How many kidneys do you have?

[ImaBraveNhsHero]

It's two, right?

I hope your not a BraveNHSdoctor 😂

Half a dozen

Two, but Covid had a good go at trying to kill them both off. Thankfully mine seem to be resilient little buggers that kicked back in with the help of a dialysis machine! They're pretty important!

I have three, two fully formed ones on one side and a single one on the other.

Called a duplex kidney.

@PieonaBarm

Two, but Covid had a good go at trying to kill them both off. Thankfully mine seem to be resilient little buggers that kicked back in with the help of a dialysis machine! They're pretty important!

That's funny, my mums failed after the vaccine! Good old covid!

Never checked, if you’ve never had a medical scan for any other reason how would you know?

Normally 2, implant recipients usually 3.
Occationally people a born with only 1, or 3 or even 4

I also have a Duplex kidney.

@Cwenthryth

Never checked, if you’ve never had a medical scan for any other reason how would you know?

I drink lots each day even as a child I'd down a glass of squash in one go and want another. My average day is around 3/4 litres.

So I'd say a need to drink more than normal would be a clue but then others would say that's what a diabetic would do!

@Ifyoudontlikeitdosomethingelse I hope your Mum is doing ok? Do you mind me asking which vaccine she had? (I'm not anti vax I'm just interested in the whole situation of mine failing). There's some American research strongly linking Covid infection to failure in otherwise healthy adults but nothing vax based that I can find.

@Covidworries

Normally 2, implant recipients usually 3. Occationally people a born with only 1, or 3 or even 4

It never even occurred to me I might have anything other than 2!

@PieonaBarm

She had AZ

You have two. Unless you have any in the freezer

I have two, I've seen them on ultra sound but I went to school with a girl who has one, her kidneys fused and her one is larger.

Lol, some people genuinely have three, but it’s not common. And even if you do have three, I’m not sure giving two of them away is necessarily advisable.

I've got 3. I've named them Adam, Eve and Steve.

I have 4 (two duplex kidneys)

Taat?

I wonder - is the average number of kidneys per person more than or less than two?

@Chouetted

I wonder - is the average number of kidneys per person more than or less than two?

Interesting question. I suspect probably more than two. As well as people born with three, most people who have had a transplant have three because they don’t usually remove the native ones. Happy to be proved wrong though.

I have 2.

My DH has 3, but only 1 of them functions.
My FIL only has 1, because his other is inside of DH.

Why are you asking? Some people are born with three, or only one, or one or two partial incompletely formed ones which may still offer them adequate renal function to live a long and healthy life. Some people lose one due to injury or disease. Some people donate one. (SUPERHEROES!!!) The kidney that is left grows in size to compensate. There are always anomalous people out there on the planet.
Chronic Kidney Disease is increasing in OECD countries (while genes definitely play a part, the increase is largely due to Diabetes and Obesity-related diseases, but Alcohol and Drug abuse are also a factor.) The medical costs are enormous and dialysis patients find the lifestyle debilitating physically and mentally. As the disease progresses it affects every aspect of their lives and every person in it.

3 kidneys. Two shrivelled and a nice big healthy transplanted one.

I thought you might have meant the ones you buy, when making a steak and kidney pie.

I'm assuming 2, as no one's ever found more or fewer than that (or they haven't told me).