Crit-Line Monitor

[Cowdog]

Crit-Line monitors were installed on all the machines in our unit about a month ago. I've read about them for several years and wanted one. The Crit-Line verified what I had always suspected that once the UF starts pulling my body dumps fluid into my vascular system so the depletion of fluid isn't really realized until the last hour of the treatment. The Crit-Line graph bumps along near the base line until the last hour then plummets.
During the last week I've set my pull up as usual with no profile. Once Hct Value is measured and the Crit-Line starts plotting to the graph I'm increasing my UFR to 1500 for the next 2 hours. This is to keep a steady increase in my Hct value and a steady downward trend on the graph. As I begin to feel the pull I'm lowering the UFR. Using this method I've been able to go below my current dry weight of 105 up to .5 without adverse effects.
Using the no Crit-Line, no profile method I experienced cramps during or after at least half of my treatments at the 105 DW or just above.
Shared that to ask for your experiences similar/good/bad using the Crit-Line monitor?

Also I'm a chronic low BP patient during treatment. Good BP when I come in 130s-140s/80s, down to 80s/60s during the show, back up to 100s/70s at the end when time to go. This hasn't changed with either UF method.

Thanks,
Billy

[Sugarlump]

I am interested to know what figures you reach on the critline (we use them sometimes to check dry weights here) and my dropoff is always very steep in the first half an hour and we aren't supposed to go below -13 Blood volume though it doesn't make me feel ill when it does. I can cope with high fluid removal in the first 2 hours then I hit problems and can't always take the right amount off.
It seems there is no way of telling if your dry weight is going up and down, assuming all changes are fluid seems a little naive...

[Rerun]

Interesting...