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RE: Caturday and Exhausted
Cats are really cuddly, they just like to budge in all the time.
My pump is only 300 with a high flux dialyzer, its OK for me, I might request for a faster pump if I can handle it.
I know only diabetic patients have a flimsy veins that sometimes never get a successful mature fistula.
So you only use a catheter everytime? For how many years now?
Yeah, post about it, its interesting.
My fistula on the operation site grew like a goose egg, I just let it like that,correcting it is very inconvenient for me.
I'm not diabetic, my veins just suck! At 300 pump speed my URR comes back at around 72%, so that's an ok clearance.
I have a central venous catheter and I've had the same one in for about 2 years. If I'm brave enough I'll post a pic sometime.
I guess if your fistula is working, leave it alone.
What's a URR?
2 years with a catheter, wow? it don't get infected?
Here they discourage us to maintain a catheter because it causes chills during dialysis because of infection.
My fistula is a veteran now, been using it for about 14 years now.
URR stands for Urea Reduction Ratio or it's also called Kt/V. It's a measurement of dialysis adequacy. We get this measurement done in our monthly blood work and it just shows how well the dialysis is cleaning our blood. I believe our standards are anything over 68% is considered adequate. If it is less than that then something needs to change in the treatment.
Infections are a smaller risk here. I don't even think I would be comfortable having a central line in the United States. I take great care to keep it clean and covered.
Fourteen years is amazing!
I had endured having a high urea in my system until just recently that I requested for a high flux dialyzer to be used. So I never had that urea smell on my breath after that.
It is also amazing you had a catheter for a long time ha ha. Pretty cool that you never have to get pricked by dialysis needles.