I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Diet and Recipes => Topic started by: jbeany on March 14, 2007, 11:31:08 AM
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Is there any way you can tell, besides pushing your fluid pull a little higher and risking a bp crash? I've been watching what I eat; I've been exercising regularly. But if I leave each dialysis session at my goal dry weight, how will I ever know if the diet and exercising are doing any good? I left Saturday at .1 kg under my dry weight. I actually had to argue with the nurse on Tuesday to get her to set my goal to the same thing I left at instead of the doctor's stated dry weight. If I've lost weight, then I'm "leaving heavy" - are there any signs I should be looking for to tell if that's true? Should I just be trying to back down .1 kg at a time? I really don't want to have to crash to find out what I'm really supposed to weigh.
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I get confused about this also, all I know is that my dry weight keeps changing every week or so, they will keep it the same even though I am under the dry weight, then after about a week or two the lower my dry weight.
So what the protocol is for this I am not to sure.
Geez now instead of helping you we are both confused! :-\
Kim
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so here's what i think.............if i weighed 82.7kg this morning and i weigh the same thing when i go in on friday morning i haven't lost any weight. i've lost 12.5 lbs since january. the dr and i have talked about lowering my dry weight, but he wants to wait and see what happens so i don't get dehydrated. i can gain weight walking across the street from a danish bakery! i never let them take more than the minimum. when i left today i weighed 82kg. i don't seem to retain fluids, i very seldom if ever come in puffy. at any rate logic according to susie is very seldom logic according to the rest of the world, so who knows.