I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: joyfulmother on May 06, 2009, 10:15:30 AM
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My blood pressure is 84/69 and I feel crappy. My nurse has me taking it easy and drinking lots of fluids and eating salty foods. At what point do we do something else? I had a can of chicken noodle soup for breakfast and it got up to 89/65 this morning.
Just a little bit nervous...
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Call your Nephrologist he/she can give you something.
I hate that wiped out feeling.
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i know you are feeling rubbish , but i cant help but think you lucky person .. being told to drink !!! Most days i feel like im in the desert!
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Have you tried drinking gateraid? That is what my dad drinks when he feels like that.
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You need to be careful to not get too dehydrated. Just this week a friend of mine was vomiting quite a bit and was warned todrink more ... a few hours later her fistula stopped (blocked)... she's now miserable with a chest cath and they're not sure if they can fix her fistula or not.
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I was told that is what happened to my graft in 2007...dehydrated and low BP...didn't pump the blood through it fast enough. My BP is constantly 98/58 etc so I still worry about it happening again.
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Could be that you have gained some weight and your dry weight should be a bit higher. Some people can go several kilos below what is their actual weight and the only symptom is low bp.
Try raising your dry weight up a kilo or two and wait a week to see if you bp corrects itself, that is what my doctor did when my bp dropped down like that even before I was put on the machine.