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« on: December 08, 2016, 08:28:13 PM »
I toddled off to an ultrasound on a fistula that was working last night perfectly well after dialysis, to find it is clotted now.  I have an appointment tomorrow morning at 6:30 a.m. to get ready for a declot procedure. I am not a happy camper right now.
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« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2016, 04:49:50 AM »
Sorry to hear about your continuing fistula troubles. What a drag!  Wishing you luck.
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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2016, 10:05:41 AM »
Dear Kitkatz,
I am very sorry and I send you my good luck wishes from Kristina. :grouphug;
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« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2016, 10:33:24 AM »
Please let us know how it went.   Not sure of your time zone, so I didn't know when to think of you.
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« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2016, 02:37:12 PM »
How are you doing Kitkatz?
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« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2016, 04:05:46 PM »
I can't begin to imagine how discouraging this must be.  :banghead; :banghead;

I am hoping that you have better news by now.  :'(

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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2016, 06:45:58 PM »

Since I know very little about hemp, fistulas, etc., I just being switched today from PD to hemo on a Perma Cath, I have a whole bunch pf questions that I will be asking Clinic staff over the next couple three months.

Clotting in a 'vessel' makes me wonder if some of us clot much easier than others.  Isn't there a clotting factor that should be tested and 'thinners' prescribed for those that need it?

They back flushed a line, filled one with saline, the other with heperin.  I assume the heperin line is the one most likely for blood to enter and the heperin keep it fluid, and they do not worry so much about the other.  A fistula or graft entirely different always having flow.

This is a whole new world for me.  I'm sure there is still a lot the Dr's are struggling to figure out.

I hope you can get this cleared and they come up with a plan to prevent future occurrences.
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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2016, 10:03:07 PM »
Hoping everything went well for your procedure! 
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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2016, 10:55:32 PM »
Everything went well.  Hurts like hell,  I went to dialysis afterwards and made it through all seven hours barely.
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« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2016, 01:02:41 AM »
Good to here they got it going, sorry for the pain, I'm with you girl. Thinking of you a lot. More good vibes coming your way.

   :cuddle;     :cuddle;


Lots of love, luck and strength, Cas
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2012 start Nxstage home hemo
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« Reply #10 on: December 10, 2016, 05:42:38 AM »
Hopefully it is going to get better as soon as possible,
thinking of you,
Kristina :grouphug;
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« Reply #11 on: December 10, 2016, 09:17:24 AM »
Ugh.  Just ugh.
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« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2016, 05:49:23 PM »

Seven HOURS?  Is this a normal time for you or because you needed that much to get back well within range?

Glad to hear your functioning again.  Pain can be a bitch, but it should pass soon.  Hopefully.

Just before I came in, actually that day I got sick, I received a package from the VA with my Lidocaine patches for when my low back decides to leave me in bed.  Slap one of these big stickies on, within a few hours the pain is reduced, almost gone.  Almost scares me.  Thinking I can easily go ahead and do things I maybe shouldn't do and cause real damage.

Could something like that help?  Ask your Dr.
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« Reply #13 on: December 11, 2016, 06:21:08 PM »
Quote from: kitkatz on December 09, 2016, 10:55:32 PM
Everything went well.  Hurts like hell,  I went to dialysis afterwards and made it through all seven hours barely.

Whoever came up with the saying "no pain, no gain" didn't have a fistula.
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« Reply #14 on: December 11, 2016, 10:38:38 PM »
Sending signal sentence showing ship shape sincerity Sebastian style!
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« Reply #15 on: December 11, 2016, 10:59:33 PM »
Not fun at all hope your feeling better. take it easy.
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« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2016, 08:17:52 PM »
And it happens so fast.  You have plans for the week and then a declot screws the whole week up.

Sorry.  You should be good for a while now.

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« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2016, 03:22:27 AM »
Hi Kitkatz how are you?

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1983 high proteinloss in urine, chemo, stroke,coma, dialysis
1984 double nephrectomy
1985 transplant from dad
1998 lost dads kidney, start PD
2003 peritineum burst, back to hemo
2012 start Nxstage home hemo
2020 start Gambro AK96

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« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2016, 09:19:02 AM »
Quote from: Charlie B53 on December 10, 2016, 05:49:23 PM

Seven HOURS?  Is this a normal time for you or because you needed that much to get back well within range?

Glad to hear your functioning again.  Pain can be a bitch, but it should pass soon.  Hopefully.

Just before I came in, actually that day I got sick, I received a package from the VA with my Lidocaine patches for when my low back decides to leave me in bed.  Slap one of these big stickies on, within a few hours the pain is reduced, almost gone.  Almost scares me.  Thinking I can easily go ahead and do things I maybe shouldn't do and cause real damage.

Could something like that help?  Ask your Dr.

Without totally hijacking KK's thread, I suggest you read this

http://homedialysis.org/news-and-research/blog/140-doc-how-long-do-i-need-to-be-on-dialysis

and this

http://homedialysis.org/news-and-research/blog/38-dont-flog-fistulas-slow-hemodialysis-blood-flow

to understand longer hemo treatment.  BTW, why is 7 hours so bad?  You run 10 hours every night on the PD cycler!
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« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2016, 11:05:06 AM »
Quote from: SutureSelf on December 13, 2016, 09:19:02 AM
BTW, why is 7 hours so bad?  You run 10 hours every night on the PD cycler!

PD is different.  You're able to move around, even stand up, disconnect, go to the bathroom, etc.  I remember one time, hooking up, doing a run, then disconnecting and going out to a movie with some friends.  When I came home, I hooked back up and continued with my treatment.

I do 4 hours on hemo.  By the end of it, I'm really to pull the needles out myself and run. 
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« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2016, 11:49:23 AM »
Quote from: Riki on December 13, 2016, 11:05:06 AM
Quote from: SutureSelf on December 13, 2016, 09:19:02 AM
BTW, why is 7 hours so bad?  You run 10 hours every night on the PD cycler!

PD is different.  You're able to move around, even stand up, disconnect, go to the bathroom, etc.  I remember one time, hooking up, doing a run, then disconnecting and going out to a movie with some friends.  When I came home, I hooked back up and continued with my treatment.

I do 4 hours on hemo.  By the end of it, I'm really to pull the needles out myself and run.

I did 8 hour nocturnal home hemo treatments for a while, which I could handle since I was sleeping for most of it.  I agree about the 4 hour treatments!  My butt and back would ache and I'd feel restless towards the end.  My treatments on NxStage now are running about 3:17 and I do fine.  That extra hour is a killer!  Or maybe it's the horrible recliners the clinics have!   ;D
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« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2016, 12:25:10 PM »
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BTW, why is 7 hours so bad?  You run 10 hours every night on the PD cycler!

Because I am in my comfortable bed, sleeping through most of it.  It doesn't intrude on my day at all (I do dry days). When I did in-center hemo for 4.5 hours it nearly drove me insane.  The discomfort, the boredom, the constant alarms, the glaring lights. Just dreadful.
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« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2016, 01:18:47 PM »
TO: KickingandScreaming and Rikki - did either of you at least read the article in the first link?  Dr. Agar lays out the reasons why running  4 hours or less x3 weekly leads to the bad side effects with higher morbidity and mortality rates.     Running longer and slower patients experience fewer treatment complications. Overall, it actually provides for a better lifestyle if nocturnal is performed at home and even at the clinic.  However, I agree that PD at home is a better option than conventional incenter hemo - at least in the short run since peritoneum functionality for dialysis usually diminishes after 5 years. BTW, at the clinic, it's not so uncommon to be unhooked if one needs to make a pit stop, especially on the extended hours treatment shift.

"The slower, the more gentle, the longer and the more frequent your dialysis treatment is ... the better you will feel, the less symptomatic your treatment will be, the more stable you will find your blood pressure will become, the less will be your pill burden, the more healthy you will feel, the longer you will live, and as you move towards an acceptance of your (sadly essential) treatment, the more at peace with both the dialysis process and yourself you will become." - John Agar, MD
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« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2016, 01:44:27 PM »
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I have been reading Agar's articles for a while now.  I fully understand why --in hemo-- longer is better.  I wasn't commenting on that.  I was merely commenting on how intolerable I find so many hours tied to a chair.   It was clear--during my hemo days-- that if I got up and did something else, it would merely prolong the agony and i'd never get home.  When my peritoneum goes, I will consider conservative care and death over in-center hemo.  That's how much I consider that life style anathema to my well being and QOL.
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« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2016, 02:44:46 PM »
 Kit, by now, I assume it is working better, the damned thing. You sure have had a tough road of it during your 18 years of it. Will be thinking of you and if you hadnt moved so far away, would have brought you some dark chocolate. Hang in there baby!!!    :waving;
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