I am 30 years old and received a kidney transplant after being on dialysis for four years. The cause of my renal failure was unknown and I was in great physical shape. I am an athlete and take care of myself, I exercise five days a week but I use prednisone as one of my antirecession medications. This medication has caused significant muscle and strength loss as it is catabolic on the muscle. I am looking for ways to increase muscle without affecting my transplanted kidney. I have been doing research and have found as we age, are natural production of human growth hormone declines. Many people now are using injectable synthetic human growth hormone as an anti aging drug and I have also fund research that it reduces the catabolic affects of prednisone. I am very interested in using this but am not sure if my kidney will reject from its use. I have read that many children who have received kidney transplants use it as their bone growth is slowed down due to kidney disease but I have found nothing about adults using this after kidney transplant. Would synthetic human growth hormone benefit adult kidney transplant recipients? I am an athlete and am trying to stay in excellent physical condition and have read nothing but good reviews about it. Please let me know if HGH would cause any rejection problems. Thank you JD