I guess I’m using this title (Fistula Update) for general dialysis updates. Today was pretty uneventful. There was some pain in my arm and a bit of bleeding during the session but nothing noticeable. There was some problem with the arterial line at the beginning but the tech moved the needle a bit and it seemed to work fine afterwards. I was pretty tired again and semi-slept through about two hours of dialysis.
For some reason, the latest lab results are not on the patient portal. One of the nurses told me that my kT/V was 1.27 and URR was about 66%. Once again, I just barely passed the bar of 1.2 for kT/V and 65% for URR. That pretty much means they won’t be shortening my dialysis time in the near future. Maybe if they run the machine at a higher flow rate.
Blood pressure was weird again. I started at about 130 and again, it gradually increased to 182. At about 9:15 am, I took 10 mg of NIFEdipine and by 10:00 am, it was back down to 120’s. I think the final standing reading was 13o-something. My doctor friend also mentioned the importance of fluid balance so maybe my BP will stabilize once they remove some more fluids from me. I left dialysis today at 83.8 kg.
Life with chronic diseases 