I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: General Discussion => Topic started by: brenda seal on June 06, 2012, 07:21:55 AM
-
Well , Laurie has been home from hospital for two weeks now and has had 10 hours dialysis every day . He had blood tests yesterday and the nurse rang today with results - his creatinine is still high -six hundred and something and phosphorous high also . He is not improving as well as we expected and apart from going to see the doctor last week he has hardly gone past the bathroom . He has walked to the letter box once or twice and that is about it . His appetite is still very poor , it is his birthday tomorrow and I was hoping to take him out for dinner but he is just not up for it .
I am starting to get worried now . Is this as good as it gets ? I read on here about everyone getting on with their life and some of you even able to keep working . It is just not happening here . Any insight on what could be going on ?
-
Ten hours a day of dialysis? My heart goes out to you. That's tough. :grouphug; :stressed;
-
Well , Laurie has been home from hospital for two weeks now and has had 10 hours dialysis every day . He had blood tests yesterday and the nurse rang today with results - his creatinine is still high -six hundred and something and phosphorous high also .
He may need to switch over to hemodialysis from PD.
:cuddle;
-
That sounds so hard. I would also ask the doc what his albumin level is. If that's really low he will feel like crap. I'm sorry he's not feeling better.
-
I've done 10 hours a night with nocturnal home hemo, usually did about 8 hours, but I had great numbers because of it. Something is definitively wrong and I would be very concern. Is PD less effective than hemo? I don't know much about PD, couldn't do it because my BMI was too high and I was told I would not get effective cleaning.
-
Is Laurie on a phosphate binder? Renagel or such?
-
Something isn't right here. I think it's time to switch to hemodialysis.