I walked on the treadmill again tonight for a bit. It was about 20 minutes at ~2 miles per hour, and once again I felt fine afterwards. However, when I tried to take a nap this afternoon, my breathing felt worse than before. I had to sit us several times because I felt like I wasn’t getting enough air.
As mentioned before, I think I’m not getting enough dialysis due to the clinic breaking in my fistula. Even running at 250 ml/min, that only gives me ~70% of the dialysis I was getting through the chest catheter at 350 ml/min. I found an article online that lists some symptoms of inadequate dialysis:
- Weight loss (or gain if extracellular volume excess is severe)
- Persistent uremic symptoms, including anorexia, loss of taste, nausea/vomiting, fatigue, pruritus, neuropathy, sleep disturbances, and restless legs.
- Uncontrolled hypertension
- Anemia refractory to treatment
- Uremic pericardial effusion
Life with chronic diseases 