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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis => Topic started by: mykey711 on July 21, 2011, 05:15:48 PM

Title: PD not working
Post by: mykey711 on July 21, 2011, 05:15:48 PM

I'vebeen on home PD about 3 months. My last clearance test are ineffective, 1.7 and 1.6. They are making adjustments to my regimen but I feel worse on many days. Are there some people that can't do Peritoneal?

Title: Re: PD not working
Post by: jeannea on July 21, 2011, 08:25:52 PM

I understand that there are some people who can't do PD. Some of them have had previous abdominal surgeries with lots of scar tissue. Others are just not good transporters and I'm not sure the doctors always know why. I'm really sorry it's happening to you.

Title: Re: PD not working
Post by: billybags on July 22, 2011, 06:21:34 AM

We live in the UK and our clearance numbers are  1.6 and 1.9 in the last 3 months. They have been lower in the months before. They did tweak our regime, husband is on overnight cycler so it is green+yellow+yellow and a last fill of extraneal. He also has to do a manual tea time bag of green. Nothing has been said about not doing very well. Perhaps your figers are different to ours. See how you go when they tweak your regime.

Title: Re: PD not working
Post by: mcclane on July 22, 2011, 07:36:49 AM

I hope you don't wind up like me; when i was on pd originally, it worked ok (my membrane was low average, so it took a long time for toxins to be removed).  the 2nd time on pd, it started out ok, but it quickly deteroiated, the doctor said the membrane thickened to the point where it was no good anymore.