Potassium

[amanda100wilson]

M3riddler I'd absolutely correct.  Just what my reply would have been.

[Whamo]

    Today I went to my dialysis center for my monthly checkup.  My labs were fine, but I'm carrying 5 kilos of extra fluid.   So they said take your lasix every morning, watch the salt like a hawk, and fluids, too.  And do a red bag with a green bag until we get the fluid down to normal levels.  So I go home and get on the red bag  An half hour into my first dwell my left hand started to cramp, and CRAMP, and HURT.  I tried massage, no good.  I tried tums (calcium), no good.  I tried to eat a couple of tangerines (potassium), no good.  I called the PD center, and my nurse was still there.  In another half hour I'd have to talk to the "on call" nurse.  I stopped my machine, and did (with her coaching) a manual drain of 300 ML.  I was okay, so we started the dwell cycler again.  Then my right hand started to cramp, just my luck.  I ate a couple of more tangerines and tums.  It's going to be a long night.

[blondie1746]

Whamo, I had that kind of night last night.  Feet cramped up over and over all night.  I was lucky to sleep for an hour before another cramp set in.  Most times it was both feet. Sometimes only one.  It was a very long night.  I sleep with a bar of soap in my sheets, didn't help.  I drank water to replace whatever fluids were being pulled off, didn't help.  When I got up this morning, I only had 32 ml UF.  The way I was cramping, I thought I was pulling a ton of fluid off.  Oh well, the joys of PD!