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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis => Topic started by: KICKSTART on May 16, 2009, 07:14:50 AM

Title: Cycler not the best ?
Post by: KICKSTART on May 16, 2009, 07:14:50 AM

Has anyone changed from CAPD to the cycler and it not worked for them ? If it didnt do you know why and in what way it didnt work?

Title: Re: Cycler not the best ?
Post by: BigSteve on May 16, 2009, 01:04:12 PM

I changed from CAPd to the cycler at the end of January. I much prefer it, but my latest Kt/V came
back low and now I am forced to do one midday exchange. This defeats the freedom a patient has
with the cycler. I hope I can go back to cycler only.

Title: Re: Cycler not the best ?
Post by: KICKSTART on May 16, 2009, 01:31:52 PM

Oh i love it but my results are coming back crap! (no im not a newbie to dialysis, just to the cycler) Anyway they have upped my exchanges and thrown in a couple of daytime ones for good measure , so fingers crossed !

Title: Re: Cycler not the best ?
Post by: Hanify on May 16, 2009, 06:54:21 PM

I changed from CAPD to the cycler cos I wasn't getting enough dialysis manually.  I still had to do one exchange during the day.  I hated it at first, but soon got used to it.  I had a few problems with griping at the beginning, but that went away (or I got used to it).  Now I wouldn't change back to manual, and infact am changing soon so that I don't even have to do the echange during the day.  Yahoo.  Even better.

Title: Re: Cycler not the best ?
Post by: Hanify on May 16, 2009, 06:55:41 PM

But I meant to say, I did know a person who tried the cycler, but continually got dehydrated, so they stopped him using it and went back to manual.  He had other health issues though, so I don't think it was the cyclers fault.