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RE: How I handle cramps during dialysis
ugh wow! :( I agree cramps are awful. One night in my sleeping bag I got a monster cramp in my hamstring (electrolytes probably after going so long in crampons). It took such a long time to settle it down. And you have them a lot...:(
It's a pure misery. In dialysis they just often put sodium in my system so if I use a regular dialyzer (the filter) sodium would retain and makes me thirsty, I would of course dink then become waterlogged. So next dialysis I would get cramps because they would take out large amounts of water from my body. Then a vicious cycle begins again.
Now I use a high flux dialyzer but have to pay an extra fee to use it.