I had another bout of hypotension while hooked-up at dialysis yesterday
3 comments
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.
Photography device: Oppo A92
Camera Sensors: 48 MP Main Camera
Camera Mode: HDR
ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ɪᴍᴀɢᴇs ᴀʙᴏᴠᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ᴄᴀᴘᴛᴜʀᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ᴏᴡɴᴇᴅ ʙʏ @cryptopie 𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥
Posted through the ECblog app (https://blog.etain.club)
Comments