How do you feel after Hemo Dialysis?

[whiskeyfrank]

I keep getting asked by friends and family, "how do you feel after dialysis?" and to be honest i dont feel  any different to when i went in. If anything a little tired, but that maybe 4 hours of watching daytime TV that causes that!

Just wondered how it effects everyone else, do you generally feel better or worse. Of no medical interest just wondering

[willowtreewren]

My Husband doesn't feel any different immediately following dialysis, but he has residual function and we don't have to take off extra fluid very often.

In general, now that he is on dialysis, he feels worlds better than he did before starting. The toxins had built up in his system and dragged him down.

He can get up from dialysis and go right to work when we do it during the day.

Aleta

[Rerun]

The general term that I hear is "washed out".  I feel tired and if I go lay down I feel tingly all over.... minty fresh?

Most of the time I can go about my day, but if my BP has dropped that day then forget it.  I'm dragging until the next day.

I also have noticed that the muscles in my back are weak until the next day.

[lizabee]

I feel about the same, just more tired since I have to get benadryl for the itchiness I get from tape

[Pam]

I feel good after D. Somedays I have a twinge o a headache and am tired but I think that is the after effect from sleeping while in he chair. If I come home and go about everyday things I am fine. If I take a nap then I am usually wiped out the rest of the day. Those naps do not refresh me at all.
Pam

[kitkatz]

On nocturnal I have felt better after dialysis. On the four hour runs three days a week I felt washed out lot of the time and hungry afterward.

[Melissa]

I usually feel a little shaky and "washed out" as Rerun says.  It passes after a few hours, which leaves me wide awake in the middle of the night! 

[jbeany]

After home hemo, I usually felt great - enough energy to go shopping or work out.  On in-center, I had a lot more of the washed-out feeling.  It was directly related to how much fluid I had to take off.  If I was good and kept it under 2.4 or so, then I usually didn't feel the need to lay down and sleep after.  Anything much over that, and I knew I wasn't going to do anything but take some tylenol and snooze most of the afternoon.  The Wednesdays when I needed Aranesp were a given for going home and sleeping - something about the epo just knocks me out about 5 hours after I take it.

[cherpep]

I am amazed that you guys feel so decent after dialysis.  That has never been my experience - neither in clinic or at home.  I am always washed out and a bit dizzy after dialysis.  I feel like crap!  Maybe it's because I dialyze at night, right before I go to bed.  Some mornings, I still feel the same way and it takes a while before I'm up to snuff.  It doesn't matter how much fluid I take off, the results are always the same.  I thought everyone felt like this, I'm really surprised here.

[Hanify]

I'm with you Cherpep.  When I did haemo (in centre) I was always completely washed out afterwards to the extent I couldn't stand for a while, could barely walk to the car (let alone drive) and usually always had to make Paul stop on the half hour drive home to vomit.  I was then usually wiped out for the following day and could do nothing, and was only ok again by the time it was time to go back for another 5 hour session.  I'm not moaning - just giving you some in site (Dan!) about why I am so pro PD ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

[RightSide]

I don't feel tired or dizzy after dialysis--just a little bit more itchy and tingly.  That usually goes away after 8 hours or so.

[HubbysPartner]

My husband usually feels good after dialysis.  We do daily home hemo and he still has some residual function so we don't usually need to take much fluid off.  He feels so much better since he started. 

[Brianna!]

I feel like crap, most of the days after dialysis. I'm really shaky, and I just want to sleep. I don't feel better until, the next day, or until after I take a nap or something. And i'm usually starving after. But that was when I didn't eat breakfast. Now that I eat breakfast, i'm not that hungry after. I'm trying to get contacts, but the "classes" to put them in, are only on Mondays, Wednessdays, and Fridays, and those are the days I go to dialysis. Since i'm so shaky, I can't get them in. I've been to about 10 classes. No luck. =[

[whiskeyfrank]

Thanks for your replys, i asked in center as well, and most people feel worse after dialysis, most comment is "washed out". Strange because some people feel much better and full of beans - i just feel the same.

[dwcrawford]

been at it six months plue now and I've felt badly twice.  low bp i'm sure.  not bad actuallly as i'd probably have had two  bad days without dialysis.  actually often i feel  full of beans, but probably not what you're talking about. 

[willowtreewren]

Beans, beans, the musical fruit.....

[Ken Shelmerdine]

I usually feel OK after haemo probably because there is no fluid removal. Just occasionally I feel not quite 100% because despite not having fluid removed I sometimes come of with BP quite low.

Does anyone else on here feel (I can only describe it as) NON thirsty after D. I seem to have an aversion to any kind of drink especiallly cold drinks.

[calypso]

I feel great. Like a guy with kidneys. Except I can't write my name in the snow. Well ok ok I CAN write my name in the snow, I just can't snicker when some little brat tries to eat it.

 

Oh and remember folks: A joke a day keeps the doctor in stitches.

[jdkaran]

I do home Hemo and can not sleep.  Sometimes I am up for 48 hours.  Does anyone else experiance this