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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Home Dialysis => Topic started by: Whamo on June 20, 2013, 07:27:57 AM
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Last night I only took off 770 ml of fluid with two green bags. I usually take off about 1,500 with two green bags. Does this ever happen to anyone else?
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My UF averaged 500-1000 when I was doing 2 green bags on the cycler. they never said anything about it. now that I do a manual exchange and the cycler, my UF averages between 1100-1500. the doc seems satisfied with this.
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My UF from the cycler is typically between -250 and sometimes up to 900 if I wake up and am standing for my final drain. I get the lions share of my clearing with my final manual drain. The cycler fills me with 1700-1800 ml at the end and I drain anywhere from 2500 to 3500 3 hours later. I look at it as a total UF across the whole treatment and that winds up being somewhere around 1300 - 1700 ml for a 24 hour period. My PD team thinks this is just fine. I'm not gaining weight and am not edemic, and those would be the immediate signs that I was not getting all the necessary fluid off. Watch your weight, that will tell you the story quickest. Good luck!
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Did you drink less during the day beforehand, or eat something extra salty? Both these factors can decrease your UF. As a woman, my menstrual cycle would affect UF too ( know that isn't relevant here but just thought that I would add that, in case someone searches on the sme hing in future).