This make it the third day in a row that I was dizzy at the end of dialysis due to low blood pressure. Initially I wanted to leave a bit early today since I had an important work meeting to call into at 10:00 am. The tech started to unhook me at around 9:15 am, about 25 minutes early. However, my arterial access point started bleeding after needle removal even though I was applying quite a bit of pressure. It took about 20 minutes to stop the bleeding. Then when I stood up for the final blood pressure reading, I felt dizzy again. The lowest reading today was a 100/48. I did speak to the rounding nurse earlier and she had raised my dry weight from 78.0 kg to 78.2 kg. We’re going to use the Crit-Line again starting next session to determine if we’re pulling too much fluids out, causing the low blood pressure.
I rushed to grab some lunch after dialysis and got home at about 10:05 am. Meeting just got started so I didn’t miss much.
Life with chronic diseases 