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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: KICKSTART on July 24, 2009, 09:18:57 AM

Title: Whats your opinion ?
Post by: KICKSTART on July 24, 2009, 09:18:57 AM

I think this is more for people who have started dialysis really. Ok, so we do our dialysis of one form or another , we take our pills and pretty much do the same routine (health wise, fluids , food etc ) day after day. So why does how we feel vary so much? I have just had a bout of insomnia , 6 days in total , averaging about an hours sleep a night and was going  :urcrazy; Then last night .. bingo .. out like a light slept soundly for about 7 hours . Then you also find days you have energy , days you have none , mood swings etc etc. Yet we stick pretty much to the same rountine. So i wondered if anyone else had thought why how we feel can vary so much ?

Title: Re: Whats your opinion ?
Post by: twirl on July 24, 2009, 10:29:36 AM

I don't know any answers but you sound a lot like me.....
Days of our Dailysis  - a continuing soap opera

Title: Re: Whats your opinion ?
Post by: kitkatz on July 24, 2009, 11:11:00 AM

I think....It has do with the build up of toxins in the blood and how well the body deals with it all.

Title: Re: Whats your opinion ?
Post by: peleroja on July 24, 2009, 02:31:38 PM

I wonder if any of it has something to do with food?  My arthritis goes alone so-so every day and all of a sudden I almost can't walk on one day.  Turns out there are tons of food that exacerbate arthritis, so I have gradually eliminated some of them, and have pretty much eliminated my flare up days.  It's a thought.

Title: Re: Whats your opinion ?
Post by: Ang on July 25, 2009, 12:05:14 AM

KS

i  think  it  might  have  to  do  with  as  KK  said  the  toxins  in  your  body  brought  about  by  the  foods  we  sometimes  shove  into  our  mouths  when  we  know  you  should'nt  also  your  general  well  being  (flu etc etc)

Title: Re: Whats your opinion ?
Post by: jbeany on July 25, 2009, 09:20:56 AM

Well, I know the last time I broke down and had a McD's burger, I was sick the rest of the day. . . so , yeah, what we eat definitely has some effect!

Kickstart, are you taking into account stress?  Even if my food is the same, my schedule is the same, and my dialysis is the same - a single argument with my grandmother can throw my blood sugar completely out of whack for the rest of the day.  Think of all the things that can stress you out in an ordinary day - family, bills arriving in the mail, etc.

Title: Re: Whats your opinion ?
Post by: Phraxis on July 25, 2009, 10:33:52 AM

I had a researcher do a detailed monitoring of my blood work that compared the data to a study that was done some years ago as part of a high altitude study. Some of the results was a wild swings in electrolytes plus blood volume when combined with the more common factors like toxins, etc were one side of the equation. And the other side was diet, fuel determines performance. The third side of this triangle, activity determined how I felt.

Those kidneys are complicated little chemists.

Hope that helps. 

Title: Re: Whats your opinion ?
Post by: KICKSTART on July 25, 2009, 11:03:22 AM

 :thumbup;

Title: Re: Whats your opinion ?
Post by: Rerun on July 25, 2009, 11:58:20 AM

I wonder sometimes how the machine mixes everything.  Does the tech push the right buttons?  I always check to see if my 2K knob is in the correct position, but other than that I will never know.

Just my paranoid  :twocents;  Also, our dry weight is a moving target.....