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RE: Life Journal: I have some Trouble Reaching my Target Weight
Can the nurses put you in a rest period? In other words, can they still continue to clean the blood, but not pull any fluids until your blood pressure comes back up? Do they always choose to give you fluid back if you become hypotensive?
What happens to me is the machine will alarm if my pressure drops below 100. At that time I will ask the nurse to check my pressure every 15 minutes instead of every 30. After 15 minutes, if it is below 95 I will then go on a rest, regardless of how I'm feeling, but the blood will still continue to be cleaned. After about 15 to 30 minutes of rest, my pressure rebounds and I go back to removing fluid.
What they do is they immediately reduce the blood pump, the fluid removal, and the cleaning process then adds fluids to my body to raise the blood pressure again. They also raise my feet.
Sometime ago with a different staff, they return my blood if it gets too low and let me rest and pause my session then they resume when the BP gets normal again after adding fluids.
So I am always hesitant to report my hypotension if I can still handle it, if not then I will tell them.
We have a different medical standards, you get the best, they reuse dialyzer here 8 times, even your machine detects a low blood pressure, its amazing.
They only give us fluids back if we're on the verge of passing out, feeling really sick, or are having severe cramping. Usually a rest does the trick, but they keep the pump speed the same, so the cleaning remains the same while you're on break.
I can't even fathom them re-using a dialyzer here even once. I'm appalled really. We are spoiled here.
Yeah it is different there than in my country. I had endured years of mediocre medical service. You can just see the results. That is why most patients die in the first 2 years. Tough patients like me transforms into a lion with no fangs. Maybe it is OK with me for my appearance but my major complaint now is the deformation inside my mouth, it makes my life harder than it is now.