Me + C3G | Cheri's Story 

I try my best to take part in research and help raise awareness about this disease and similar conditions. I also use social media to the best of my ability. I thank you for sharing your story with the public, ive shared my story too when i was still being treated in Canada at SickKids but now im being treated at Toronto General Hospital after turning 18.

C3G really changes your life, it changed me, it changed the people around me and how they treated me, it changed everything. I have a routine appointment at the GN clinic at Toronto General hospital in Just 4 days. After the age of 16 i developed severe anxiety and depression, started getting addicted to self harm and tried to attempt suicide but thats something most people fail at. Im ok now but i know patients like me just need to hang in there and try to keep a healthy lifestyle. I hope you are in a better place now than the one you might have been in when you were diagnosed. I wish you good health and good luck.

I was diagnosed at age 9 and my symptoms also started at age 8. My diagnoses was for C3GN and have been through so many treatments. Im currently only 19 and have had 3 renal biopsies, had high bp issues, been in a coma, had a seizure and PRES.

Im still trying to learn more about my condition and longterm health concerns. My doctors say im stable but if i was to have kidney failure, it would be 10 years down the road. I think what scares me is that i will get sick at a point in my life where i will have less help from family, more responsibilities and more lifestyle related issues. Have your doctors discussed renal failure concerns with you over the years.