Cramping

[pagandialysis]

I am sorry if there is another thread like this but the only one I found through search was for ladies only.

What do you do to stop the cramps during and after treatment? Not including watching your fluid intake.

I haven't found a way to stop them during but my RN suggests that if they are bad at home afterwards I should eat a bowl of canned chicken noodle soup.

[iketchum]

I think if you are cramping so much, they may be taking too much fluid off, that or you may have had some salt. I cramped hard most treatment until they changed the sodium part of my treatment, they were actually raising the amount of sodium in my blood each treatment, making me so thirsty and made it harder for them to extract the fluid from my legs, making me cramp. Drinking tonic water with quinine does help some.

[Stoday]

In Center:

(1) Get them to profile the amount of water taken off so that the maximum occurs initially and tails off later in the treatment.

(2) If you do cramp, ask them to stop ultrfiltration whilst you recover from the cramps. It takes five minutes or so.

(3) Set your chair so that your legs are up high (assuming you cramp in your legs).

At home:

I just get up & walk/hobble around. No fix like the in center fix. 

[Rerun]

I buy Tonic Water 99 cents, and have a swig or two everyday.  Try it first before dialysis and see if that helps.  Tonic Water has Quinine in it which is a natural muscle relaxer.  They use to give dialysis patients Quinine Tablets but FDA put a stop to it.  Said it was only for malaria.