I had another bout of hypotension while hooked-up at dialysis yesterday
It's a bummer when I get to unfinish my dialysis session when my blood pressure crashes because I will not get drawn completely with extra fluids that has to go out and at the same time will not achieve the complete four-hour cleaning factor considering that I always feel that dialysis in the most frequent schedule that I can do is still not enough to make feel much better.
In reality I can never feel better because the moment that the dialysis machine stops cleaning my blood at the end of treatment session, my blood's urea-nitrogen levels would pickup especially when I started to eat protein where lack of protein intake coupled with less calorie intake too has the same effect because my body will start to process my muscles as its protein source which in effect is likened to me eating protein and so my blood's nitrogen-urea levels will make me feel poisoned.
A dialysis patient might look normal but they really feel sick inside as their blood pressure will always remain high so they really do not feel relaxed like a normal person which do not feel a relative awareness of a pumping heart. That is why sleeping is no problem for normal people even such people are addicted to coffee, so what more if a normal person doesn't drink coffee, they will always sleep like a baby.
I had a mistake of drinking Sprite yesterday together with my usual post dialysis meal treat. I always eat my favorite food of fried pork on rice in a bowl with gravy which I developed an acquired taste after my father bought it more frequently compared to what I want to him to buy which is another pork dish. I discovered that with much gravy, that rice bowl meal is quite delicious to eat but only after I finished my dialysis session.
I was always eating at dialysis before, my aim is to not get hypotension and at the same time take the opportunity to make the dialysis process clean my blood together on what the contents of what I will be eating while I am hooked-up at the dialysis machine in those four-hour treatment times. But I stopped eating after realizing that none of those factors really works as I still suffer bouts of hypotension at times and that the extra substances from the food that I was eating will not be completely cleaned-out.
So I end-up with just eating prior to my dialysis schedule and just suck on two pieces of candies while I try to contend with my nurse's loud conversations, laughs, and noises while I am trying to sleep the wait for my four-hour session to end. I really cannot wait that long but of course I have to come to the treatment clinic every schedule lest I will die from toxins in my blood and accumulation of extra fluids from my body and it is not pleasant to die a lingering death.
I think that the new Lazyboy chair that I was sitting on is not making me comfortable unlike the old one which can be made to incline much lower compared to this newer one. It can be the factor on why I am feeling lightheaded to the point of passing-out. But the process of hypotension is not pleasant because your guts would churn while it happens depending on the severity of hypotension. So what happened yesterday was relatively mild for me although I alerted one of my nurse while it is already beginning so that at least I can be able to finish my session which I actually did but with a lower blood pump, meaning less blood was set to circulate and goo through the blood cleaner/filter (dialyzer) which in effect lessened the clean factor of my blood plus I wasn't able to get rid of the extra fluids which was set. So I end-up going home not being completely "dry" again.
I do not like when hypotension happens because I will have less allowance of consuming fluids for my next session but thank God that I am able to have more frequency treatments now after the government improved our benefits from our universal health care system from our government health insurance which effectively gave dialysis patients in my country an ample amount of treatments per year plus free essential dialyzer, medicines like EPO to treat anemia, and bloodwork which were just a dream for every dialysis patients to have before but now a reality which are not only life-saver but it made every family of the patient to live without a big burden on their backs.
Anyway, I do not know what to do if I the new chair was the factor for my hypotension because it is not reclining as low as I want unlike the old one. I might request my nurses to replace the new Lazyboy chair and I am still unsure if they will heed my wish regarding this new issue so it turns out that my body doesn't like the new chair after all.
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This doesn't sound good and the photos you show are dark clouds as well.
There are no beds and everyone is sitting in a chair? I would ask for another one and tell them that this chair makes you feel more miserable. No body is the same and they should understand that and are not waiting for extra complications.
Is it up to you to decide how many times per week you let your blood cleaned?
I hope somehow you can sleep like a baby tonight and the next time your blood will be cleaned better. I believe by now you already went over again so did you ask for another chair?
I hope you can relax and if it comes to hospitals these are the most exhausting places. It's better to stay home in your bed as trying to recover in a hospital. It's always noisy and there's not 1 minute rest.
A warm hug to you, know you are in my mind.
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The weather now is like transitioning to a cooler weather which is why the moist air coming from the southwest of my country is being made to condense to the coming colder air coming from the north part of my country. But it doesn't rain if not very brief only and happens at night.
You will have to bear with me with my Photos because It is what I will be using with my posts until I get a better camera phone and photograph things in close-up shot. But the crypto prices had gone down like we are in the bear market again, so I will have to wait.
Anyway, our dialysis center only uses Lazyboy chair but there are patients lying on hospital bed but they are the dialysis patients that happen to be in bad condition, got hospitalized and unable to sit nor walk and only rolled into the dialysis treatment room to have their dialysis treatment.
I can't just simply ask to be treated by suing a stretcher or a bed unless I am in a miserable state like what happened many years ago, I can't remember, 2013 maybe. That is when my back bone gave way from bein straight to being crooked almost overnight. A sharp pain in my back made me unable to sit and is just carried to the car by making our wooden chair my stretcher for the purpose.
I was carried by neighbors and made to lie down to the middle of the car as if I am a pizza if you can imagine it. From the dialysis clinic I am made to lie down to a stretcher which they took from the hospitals morgue as I have heard while I am being prepared for my dialysis treatment and I am not kidding.
It was the only instance that I got dialyzed lying down flat but right now I can only lie down using the Lazyboy chair which doesn't give me the best position that I need.
Some dialysis clinics uses the same, some others uses a mix of bed and Lazyboy chairs but the most comfortable was that bed designed for dialysis patients and I only was able to use it at the big government hospital located in the capital city because of my need to fix my overgrown and painful Arteriovenous fistula. That seat made me sleep and according to my sister which was the one appointed to look-out for me, she heard me snore. But I don't think that my hospital will buy a fancy chair like that, it is just my dream to ever lay my back on one again which is more comfortable than my own bed.
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Enjoy the weekends! 🌹🌹🌹
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I wonder what that special designed bed looks like and if it's not possible to buy one (from some hospital no longer needing it or via the government or?) it's important to be able to sleep since without good rest healing process go slower as well plus stress makes it worse.
Your friend is right, if I read you it feels as if you are only smiling since what you write has expressions making me smile although altogether this is damned sad and so it the fact that there's no on taking some initiative to make you feel more comfortable. A good doctor or nurse should see without you asking for it if you are in pain. How was the last dialyze?
Did you order the pic to celebrate your mom's birthday, Christmas and the end of the year?
Speak to you soon again, I hope you have a relaxed weekend as far is possible.
A warm embrace to you
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