No D for me today

[cloud393]

So I get my machine all set up, needles put in, start treatment and what?  My Venus pressures almost 400!  I was told it can't be over 250.  I tried readjusting needle several times but no help.  Only thing that would work was to turn blood pump speed down under 200.  I would've been on the machine all night at that rate.  Anyone else ever have this happen?  What else should I have done?  I just returned blood and stopped treatment.

[boswife]

wow, hope ya get some answeres??

[cookie2008]

Sometimes we would just put in another needle, but most of the time if after moving it and flipping it we just call it a day and start over the next day.  Since I have buttonholes we really dont go thru that anymore.

[vcarmody]

Not sure if this is the same but I just had this problem about a month or so ago, see my post high arterial pressure. I was at my wits end because I didn't know what was going on.  I sent my husband in center for a treatment after it happened two days in a row.  They had the same problem so they said we needed to go to the vascular surgeon.  Until we could get the procedure done (fistualgram) I moved his arterial needle up to his venous button hole and started a new hole with a sharp for his venous.  We had great pressures after that, but we still had the fistulagram done in the lower part of the vein about a week later.  Now we have 3 button holes established.  When it happened the fist time I ran his treatment for a little while at 200 but returned his blood because we would have been on for like 10 hours and I had to work in the am, the next day it happened again and because it would have made 3 days in a row without dialysis (we had taken the day off just prior to this happening) I returned his blood and called the center to have them so a treatment, that is when I found out it was a problem with his fistula.  Good luck!  I hope this helps.

[cloud393]

Thank you for the replies.  I'll have to start a new button hole again.  How fun. 

[Jelena]

Maybe you already do this, but my husband and I didn't know about flipping the needle for a while. Once we were told to do that, we have no problems with pressures. But as I said, you probably know all that, so I guess I am not really helping

[cloud393]

what is flipping the needle?  I've never heard thhat before. 

[silverhead]

Sometimes when you put the needle in the "slant' cut of the needle might come to rest against the wall of the artery and it has a hard time pulling blood into it, pulling the needle back a little bit and rotating it 180 degrees, push the needle back in and it quite often cures the problem......

[cloud393]

Ok.  I'll have to remember that although I did try pulling it out some.  I started a new site tonight and didn't have any problems.  Thank you Jesus.

[looneytunes]

We have also had the pressure problems occassionally on both the arterial and venous sides.  Flipping the needle works most of the time for us.