I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
November 23, 2024, 12:55:57 PM

Login with username, password and session length
Search:     Advanced search
532606 Posts in 33561 Topics by 12678 Members
Latest Member: astrobridge
* Home Help Search Login Register
+  I Hate Dialysis Message Board
|-+  Dialysis Discussion
| |-+  Dialysis: Home Dialysis - NxStage Users
| | |-+  NxStage With a Graft		 0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. « previous next »
Pages: [1] Go Down Print
Author Topic: NxStage With a Graft  (Read 2785 times)
BobT1939
Jr. Member
**
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 73
« on: December 03, 2007, 11:21:01 AM »
I am about to begin dialysis, supposedly on Wednesday - will find out later today, and will begin on NxStage. I have a graft that was put in a couple of months ago, a fistula was not possible given my veins.

Can anyone tell me how NxStage does with a graft? No button holes, I know, but does the graft cause any particular problems?/bobt
Logged
BobT
jbeany
Member for Life
******
Offline Offline

Gender: Female
Posts: 7536


Cattitude
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2007, 12:00:19 PM »
No problems with mine so far, other than regular fistulagrams, which I was getting on in-center as well, so that hasn't changed.  I think home hemo is actually better for them - I can control the needle sticks this way, and they get rotated consistently, unlike the center, with random nurses sticking wherever they felt like sticking that day.
Logged
"Asbestos Gelos"  (As-bes-tos yay-lohs) Greek. Literally, "fireproof laughter".  A term used by Homer for invincible laughter in the face of death and mortality.
Adam_W
Elite Member
*****
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 1139


Me with Baron von Fresenius
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2007, 03:47:45 PM »
I'm on NxStage with a graft, but mine is constantly giving me problems. I don't think it has anything to do with NxStage/6 days/wk, though. I just have a graft with a mind of it's own.

Adam
Logged
-Diagnosed with ESRD (born with one kidney, hypertension killed it) Jan 21st, 2007
-Started dialysis four days later in hospital (Baxter 1550-I think, then Gambro Phoenix)
-Started in-centre dialysis Feb 6th 2007 (Fres. 2008H)
-Started home hemo June 5th 2007 (NxStage/Pureflow)
-PD catheter placed June 6th 2008 (Bye bye NxStage, at least for now)
-Started CAPD July 4th, 2008
-PD catheter removed Dec 2, 2008-PD just wouldn't work, so I'm back on NxStage
-Kidney function improved enough to go off dialysis, Feb. 2011!!!!!
-Back on dialysis (still NxStage) July 2011 :(
-In-centre self-care dialysis March 2012 (Fresenius 2008K)
-Not on transplant list yet.


"Don't live for dialysis, use dialysis to LIVE"
BobT1939
Jr. Member
**
Offline Offline

Gender: Male
Posts: 73
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2007, 07:34:31 PM »
Thanks for the information. Now it looks like I will start in-center, then transition to NxStage. Neph was for in-center first, then thought he saw a "window" to get me on NxStage, now back to in-center. Have been fooling around with docs for 30 years through two separate cancers and now ESKD. Some things never change./bobt
Logged
BobT
Pages: [1] Go Up Print 
« previous next »
 
Powered by MySQL Powered by PHP SMF 2.0.17 | SMF © 2019, Simple Machines | Terms and Policies Valid XHTML 1.0! Valid CSS!