Frank McGrath and kidney dialysis

[Fit2Serve]

wow.... was always a big fan of his physique.
unreal to me guys ruin their kidneys simply cuz of high blood pressure... soooo preventable.
its happened to so many guys...
Frank is only 44 years old and looking at rest of his life doing dialysis 3 times a week. YIKES.

Dont ignore your BLOOD PRESSURE!!!

 

[Othello]

you cant be a bodybuilder if you take blood pressure medication


- fouad abiad

 

[specter]

First thing i did when i went on gear was to buy a blood pressure monitor.

 

[Muay Thai]

I just got off dialysis today, 34 years old, my bp has been 210/110 , just got prescribed labetolol post discharge from ER, in a week I am getting bloodwork again and may need more . I had dialysis catheter in my jugular

 

[USMuscle9403]

One reason I quit gear, my blood pressure even on moderate dosages was just too damn high. I was on a low dose of meds and still not much improvement and wasn't willing to go higher. When I see jacked guys in public, half the time, they're sporting the red face and I know they're hurting.

Take care of yourselves...

 

[MR. BMJ]

I thought McGrath had already been on dialysis for many years now?

 

[Bio]

I thought McGrath had already been on dialysis for many years now?

My question too. @Knight9 don't you or didn't you know him? Maybe you can shed some light?

 

[joos23]

I watched a podcast on this. I guess he was born or has 1 kidney. He made it a long time in the game, but now needs a transplant asap.

 

[Fit2Serve]

oh yeah i did forget to mention Frank was born with ONE kidney and STILL blasted gear and lived w terrible blood pressure.
just nuts...
i basically got out of the game cuz terrible blood pressure too. in my early thirties on tren and test id walk around w 190/120 blood pressure
fucking stupid!

 

[Flex500]

He's spoken fairly openly about this in person (if you were to run into him at expos and such) and I was searching for some old youtube videos of him because I swear he has spoken about this a few times.

Anyway...as others have noted he was born with one kidney and has had issues for some time with elevated kidney values and struggled with high blood pressure. Many people live a full normal life with one kidney so you'd have to think it was the overall stress of this lifestyle. He also had that crazy car accident and think went into rhabdo due to the severity of the damage, lost his spleen, etc. The dude has been through the ringer that is for sure.

To be on dialysis at only 44 is really, really tough though. Any age is terrible...but 44 is like the start of life! Really sad to hear. He is young though and hopefully can get a donor

 

[Muay Thai]

One reason I quit gear, my blood pressure even on moderate dosages was just too damn high. I was on a low dose of meds and still not much improvement and wasn't willing to go higher. When I see jacked guys in public, half the time, they're sporting the red face and I know they're hurting.

Take care of yourselves...

still happy to have you around bringing consciousness and good vibes to the board brother. carry on soldier!

 

[bellicose]

Really sad. I remember his as the super jacked guy in the Animal ads

 

[sickboy]

Rec drugs were an issue too. Almost all the guys he’s been tight with over the years had pretty severe drug probs, AV and Calum for example.
He had plenty of chances over the years to get out of the lifestyle, get married, work in the industry and not compete, etc but never did it.