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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis => Topic started by: BigSteve on October 27, 2008, 02:53:10 PM

Title: Why PD was invented.
Post by: BigSteve on October 27, 2008, 02:53:10 PM: Well, after a week on CAPD I discovered why PD was invented. It's to show men what pregnancy is like!
Title: Re: Why PD was invented.
Post by: Rerun on October 27, 2008, 02:55:37 PM: I guess there is justice in dialysis!

:clap;
Title: Re: Why PD was invented.
Post by: monrein on October 27, 2008, 03:07:18 PM: :rofl; But if men really had to get pregnant, I'm convinced the world's population would drop dramatically and the choices of types of birth control would soar.
Title: Re: Why PD was invented.
Post by: Ken Shelmerdine on October 27, 2008, 04:50:51 PM: As long as I don't get to experience what the conception was like! :rofl;
Title: Re: Why PD was invented.
Post by: KICKSTART on November 10, 2008, 11:21:23 AM: Actually as far as i know it was 'invented for soldiers ' in the field as a quick way of giving dialysis when they got injured !
Title: Re: Why PD was invented.
Post by: BigSteve on November 14, 2008, 02:24:06 PM: Well now that I'm past my third week of manual PD my skin has apparently stretched and I no longer
feel pregnant. It feels like I did before hemo. My first month on hemo I lost 20+ pounds. I can do
the full 3 liters and barely feel it. My PET test is next week so maybe I can start cycler training.
Title: Re: Why PD was invented.
Post by: Ken Shelmerdine on November 18, 2008, 03:59:55 PM: Steve hope your pet test turns out good. Keep us posted. :thumbup;
Title: Re: Why PD was invented.
Post by: BigSteve on November 21, 2008, 03:02:31 PM: Ken: I won't know the PET results until my next month's clinic. However the PD nurse trainer seemed to indicate I would be
good to go on the cycler. Only problem it will be January before any training can start. So it looks like manual exchanges for
a while.
Title: Re: Why PD was invented.
Post by: Bill Peckham on November 21, 2008, 11:03:44 PM: Here is a recent post from my blog: PD History Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (http://www.billpeckham.com/from_the_sharp_end_of_the/2008/11/pd-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow.html)
http://www.billpeckham.com/from_the_sharp_end_of_the/2008/11/pd-yesterday-today-and-tomorrow.html
It includes a picture I took at the ASN of what a Wearable PD Belt might look like.

I'd say PD was invented because people were dying from Chronic Kidney Disease
Title: Re: Why PD was invented.
Post by: BigSteve on November 22, 2008, 10:45:09 AM: Wells folks, I started this topic as a bit of fun while I suffered through my first week of PD since I was started on
3 liters and felt HUGE. It's now a serious topic, but that's fine with me. I took a look at Bill's picture of a PD belt.
It looks like there are pouches for various exchanges, but how is it powered? I'd wear one of them. I couldn't look
much fatter than I do now.
Title: Re: Why PD was invented.
Post by: Bill Peckham on November 22, 2008, 02:50:05 PM: Quote from: BigSteve on November 22, 2008, 10:45:09 AM
Wells folks, I started this topic as a bit of fun while I suffered through my first week of PD since I was started on
3 liters and felt HUGE. It's now a serious topic, but that's fine with me. I took a look at Bill's picture of a PD belt.
It looks like there are pouches for various exchanges, but how is it powered? I'd wear one of them. I couldn't look
much fatter than I do now.

The way I understand it is that the fluid is cycled through the different stages of the belt, different modules, where the PD fluid is cleansed through sorbent technology (this is what FMC bought when they bought Renal Solutions). So maybe you'd be able to carry less fluid because the fluid was constantly being cleaned/recycled. One of those little pouches is the battery/pump module.