Get my cycler training tomorrow

[Joe]

Did my PET on Monday and everything looked pretty good. Have some vitamin adjustments to make, but nothing serious. That and my KT/V is at 1.9, so folks are happy with the way I am dialyzing. At the end of the session my PD nurse asked my how I would like to do my training this week. She didn't have to ask twice  Hoping for a smooth transition from manuals to the cycler and not having to do exchanges at work any more. Time will tell.

[msrosefromms]

 :yahoo;Glad you are getting the training for the cycler. Doing it at night is a lot easier.

[drgirlfriend]

 
Congrats!! My bf turned in all his liquids for the first time on Tuesday. I hope he does as well as you did! We've been aiming for the cycler from the beginning.

[mcclane]

The cycler is a huge step forward from doing pd manually.  It really does free up your day time which is nice.  One downside I found is that if you do stay out late, it may throw your cycler schedule off.  For example, I usually like to be hooked up on the cycler at 9 pm, so it is done by 5 am the next day.  However, if you stay out late til 11:30 pm, you're way past the 12 hour mark by 2.5 hours.  I'm not sure if the extraneal can still be good for 14.5 hours. 

Just something to look out for.

[wbdoug]

The cycler is a huge step forward from doing pd manually.  It really does free up your day time which is nice.  One downside I found is that if you do stay out late, it may throw your cycler schedule off.  For example, I usually like to be hooked up on the cycler at 9 pm, so it is done by 5 am the next day.  However, if you stay out late til 11:30 pm, you're way past the 12 hour mark by 2.5 hours.  I'm not sure if the extraneal can still be good for 14.5 hours. 

Just something to look out for.

Am I mississing something? If you hook up at 9 pm and disconect at 5 am then when you connect again at 9 pm that is 16 hours. I am using extraneal as my last fill and dwell about 15 hours plus.

Joe: After learning to do manual doing the machine is no problem. I've only been on it for two weeks myself but I am already into a routine every night. My only problem is the drain pain. Good luck to you.

Bill

[willowtreewren]

Congrats!

 

Aleta

[billybags]

Joe, you will be absolutely fine on the cycler, it frees up your day. The noise seemed to get to us to start with but you get used to it. Hubby had to do the urine test and the other ones this week so he had to do manual for a day and night, neither of us could sleep because it was so quite in our bedroom, we missed the noise!!!!!!!!!

[mcclane]

The cycler is a huge step forward from doing pd manually.  It really does free up your day time which is nice.  One downside I found is that if you do stay out late, it may throw your cycler schedule off.  For example, I usually like to be hooked up on the cycler at 9 pm, so it is done by 5 am the next day.  However, if you stay out late til 11:30 pm, you're way past the 12 hour mark by 2.5 hours.  I'm not sure if the extraneal can still be good for 14.5 hours. 

Just something to look out for.

Am I mississing something? If you hook up at 9 pm and disconect at 5 am then when you connect again at 9 pm that is 16 hours. I am using extraneal as my last fill and dwell about 15 hours plus.

Joe: After learning to do manual doing the machine is no problem. I've only been on it for two weeks myself but I am already into a routine every night. My only problem is the drain pain. Good luck to you.

Bill

oooh you're right, i miscaulcated.  16 hours.  I was calculating 9 am to 9 pm, not sure what i was thinking.  I did use extraneal as well on my last fill.

[drgirlfriend]

How's it going, Joe? I hope everything is going well.
Was the cycler training multiple days like the manual training was? Tell me about the extraneal. This is the first I've heard of it.

[Joe]

After a week I think I can say all is going well. I've only had one night where I got a low drain alarm on cycles 3 and 4. Got up, moved around and cycle 5 went just fine. Have had some drain pain, but I can usually take care of that by moving around to reposition the cath.

drgirlfriend, the cycler training was 3 hours. It really is straightforward. (I will caveat that with I'm using the Baxter system, can't speak for any others.)

[drgirlfriend]

   Groovy!