What's your normal PD set up?

[Chicken Little]

I use 2 - 5L bags of 1.5 (yellow) on a Baxter Homechoice.   

I fill at 5 pm with 1700 ml for a day dwell.

I start my 4 - 2000 ml night dwells at 9:30-10 pm and I'm on the cycler for 9 hours.

My UF is 600-900 a night.     

And you? 

[goofynina]

I use 3 - 6000ml = 1 red (4.25) and 2 green (2.5)

I usually hook up around 11 pm and begin my 5 dwells of 3000ml each

i am on the machine for 11 hours with one manual drain about 1 1/2 hours after the 11 hours is over

my total uf is always 2000 - 2400  with an additional 500 - 800 with the manual drain

I am also using a Baxter Homechoice (my newest bestest friend)

[KICKSTART]

Manual Capd ;  2 green 2l
                     1 orange 2l
                     1 extraneal 2l (overnight)

[Red from Canada]

I use 2 - 2000Ltre bags of 2.5 and 1 extraneal 1400ml.  5 cycles on Baxter Home choice 9 hours from about 11PM.  Usually UF of 850 to 1100.
Love my cycler!

[Ohio Buckeye]

I am on 9 hrs with 4 cycles at 2500 each.
The solution varies.
Last night I used 1 red and 1 yellow bag and took off 1800+.
Usually 2 greens will take off 1400-1500 area.
No daytime. 

[Ken Shelmerdine]

I use 1 x 5 litre and 1 x 3 litre bags of 1.36% strength. (In Britain I think the bags are labelled differently than the USA, 1.36% is yellow and 2.27% is green.) 3 X 2 litre fills from a Baxter Cycler with dwells of  2hrs 17 minutes. No final fill and dry during the day. Therapy lasts 8 hours. The machine is set to 80% tidal and I have to do a manual drain each morning to completely drain. Average UF is 275ml.

[Krowbar]

I'm using 2x 6L bags of 2.5% and a 2L bag of extraneal every night. About 1900cc of extraneal sits in my belly all day.

Average UF ranges from 1300-1500cc over 9 hours. Sometimes I wake up to find my total UF is much lower and I force a manual drain to bring it to 1300 total because the cycler could not drain properly overnight for whatever reason.

Sometimes when I have to use a red bag (4.5%), my UF is 1800-2000cc but I don't use it much. I was told that prolonged use of the red bags damages the peritoneum so I never use it more than once a fortnight.

[Bette]

I usually use 2 2.5% 6 liter bags.  I am on the cycler for 10 hours and I do four 2000 liter fills.  I have 500ml in during the day.  I hook up at 9-10 pm each night.  I usually ultrafiltrate between 1000 and 1500 ml a night.  I have the Baxter homechoice cycler.  It's so much better than doing 4 exchanges a day.

[Slywalker]

I'm on the cycler - Fresinius one and I normally use:

2 5000 ML bags are put on.  I'd been using mostly the 1.5s but now I'm retaining more fluid as my kidney function is getting worse.  To take off the fluid I'm told to use the 2.5% and occasionally the 4.25%.  My dialysis nurse said the 4.25% can be "hard" on the peritoneal cavity.

I am doing the tidal method on the cycler because I have "draining issues."  So I fill up with 2700 and I do three exchanges during the night with 1350 coming off and 1350 going on after the original fill.  On the weekends I do four exchanges during the night.  I'm on from 9:00 PM until 5:30 AM (which is when I have to get up!!).  I am empty during the day.

 I absorb this fluid very very easily.  The first week when I was training on the manual system I gained 20 pounds in fluid just by having the fluid in me for so many hours. 

Because my clearance levels are a bit low I am going to add a manual around 5:30 PM which will drain off when I connect to the cycler.

Sandyb