My First Crash

[KICKSTART]

I would not want to be on dialysis for 8 hours.  4 hours is long enough as it is.  I don't think I could stay still for 8 hours like I have to for 4 hours now.  I think that having to sit on the machine for 8 hours would diminish what's left of my sanity.  I think I'll risk the occasional crash.

I think you might find that people are doing nocturnal !

[kitkatz]

Just wait until you cramp and crash all at the same time on dialysis.  It is not very much fun!

[gregory]

I've only crashed once. I remember the nurse shaking me awake, I asked what happened, she said I crashed. My Davita stopped giving hypertonics to raise B/P.

[Bruno]

I used to take my blood pressure every 20 minutes so that I could act quickly if I went flat. But after a while I realised that it was the amount I was trying to take off that was the problem...once I kept it below 1500 per session my worries stopped. A good indicator of trouble ahead for me was my blood pressure before the session...if it was down I'd always watch out.