Hello To All

[greeneyesinva]

I am a new member to the I Hate Dialysis Board on behalf of my 85-year-old dad who has been a dialysis patient (starting off on peritoneal and currently on hospital hemo) for 4+ years. We had posed a question, about some new symptoms he has been experiencing after dialysis treatments, to his medical providers but they don't seem to know the answer...so I told my dad I would join your board and ask members here. When he gets home from a treatment, he has a lot of gas, bloating and nausea (has been worse over the past few weeks); he is also (obviously) tired so had started resting in my mom's recliner upon arrival at home. That made the symptoms worse and he even had trouble catching his breath for as long as 30 minutes at a time. I suggested that he sit in a straight chair with his feet up to see if that would help; it didn't. This week, he tried lying flat on his bed and, while the symptoms weren't as pronounced, he still had them.

My dad's dialysis is done through a chest catheter--he had a fistula that worked for a couple of months and is waiting for his platelet level to increase so that he might have graft surgery in the near future.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!!

 

[YLGuy]

  Welcome to IHD.  I am wondering what meds your dad is on. What kind of binders?  Are they taking enough fluid off?

[CebuShan]

   
I have had nausea during and after D but not the gas or bloating.
I, too, am wondering what meds your Dad is on.
Let us know!

   

[greeneyesinva]

Thanks for your responses!!!

The binder that my dad is on is TUMS. He receives hectorol and EPO at dialysis; he takes blood pressure medicines (Norvasc, Metropolol, and Avepro--not sure about the spellings!) and a baby aspirin every other day as well as a vitamin B supplement. He gets a vitamin B12 shot once a week and takes vitamin E every other day. His target weight was changed recently from 60.0kg to 60.5kg. He says that the fluid removed at each dialysis treatment is between 2000-3000cc/mg.

Thanks for any input you are able to offer.