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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis - NxStage Users => Topic started by: Malibu on January 28, 2010, 07:52:11 AM
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What is your dry weight? Is it in round number, I mean 82.5, 83, 83.5, etc. Or 82.7, 83.3, etc.
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I don't know if some people would be willing to give that number. Good thing it is in kilograms and no one (in Amurika at least) things of being fat in kilograms.
My wife is down to 64.5. She was at 82 when she gave birth to our daughter and 77 before she was pregnant.
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OOPS, I was not meaning to find out what people weighed. What I really wanted to know is...is your dry weight a round number or a number ending in 5 or 0 only or is your dry weight whatever you have decided it needs to be no matter what the number, such as 92.4 or 98.8. :embarassed:
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If you are in-center, they do seem to be obsessed with keeping it at a round number or one ending in .5. I never could figure that out. It's not like it's harder to punch in a number ending in .3 or .7. It's bad enough they seem to expect us to be the exact same weight every day of the week, now it has to be a round number, too? I always seemed to be running something ending in an odd number when it came time for clinic and the doc would officially reset my dry weight to match the real weight I had lost over the past month. He likes to round down to the next even kiliogram or half-kilogram. At one point I just shrugged and told him he could write down whatever he wanted - it wasn't gonna make my ass instantly smaller just because it was in writing! (He just laughed - he was used to me by then.)
One more reason to keep track of your own weight, and set your own goals for each run.
Zog is right - uh-uh, no way am I posting my weight on here!
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We found that some scales in centers are always rounding to the nearest 0.5 kg. We do home hemo and the center provided us with a cheap digital scale that read in 0.5 increments and seemed to malfunction. Some of those scales will automatically repeat the last reading to make it seem like they are accurate. We thought about buying a balance scale when she was pregnant on dialysis (miscalculate dry weight = placenta raisin), but we settled on a weight watcher's scale from Target. It reads in 0.1 kg increments, and is pretty accurate, although it is off sometimes.
IMHO most small digital scales use strain gauges which can be affected by temperature, battery voltage, etc.
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When doing home hemo, it was standard for me to take three different weights and average them.
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I'm at 77.8. I was 78 for ages, but challenged and went down by 0.2 I was going to wind up at 77.5, but when I next challenged it wasn't so good, so decided to leave at 77.8. In general I think they tend to like to keep the numbers round because it's easier to add up the difference (sometimes the math is a bit beyond some of them :rofl;). They are happy for me to keep it at .8 though.
I don't care who knows my weight. My BMI is perfect at 23! WOOHOO! :rofl;
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If you are in-center, they do seem to be obsessed with keeping it at a round number or one ending in .5. I never could figure that out. It's not like it's harder to punch in a number ending in .3 or .7. It's bad enough they seem to expect us to be the exact same weight every day of the week, now it has to be a round number, too?
:rofl;
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Right now I am at 87 kg. I have gained some weight (my wife is a good cook :clap; :clap;), and as usual it was a struggle to get them to raise the dry weight. I was at 85 kg. Which is about what I have weighed for years, dialysis didn't change that, luckily. Changed a lot of other things in my life, but not that :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;
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jbeany: "they do seem to be obsessed with keeping it at a round number or one ending in .5. I never could figure that out. It's not like it's harder to punch in a number ending in .3 or .7. It's bad enough they seem to expect us to be the exact same weight every day of the week, now it has to be a round number, too?" Hahaha, This is so true. What is the deal? I guess I will have to inform them of this as well.....MM is not a round number, deal with it.
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They can't find a dry wait for me because I urinate normal and have and never have had any fluid retention. It's around 55 kg but even that is unsure since like I said no fluid retention.
Troy