BRRRR...Is it cold in here?

[Annig83]

Two questions:

1. Does anyone on CCPD get cold after being filled?  If so, why?  My machine puts in warm fluid...so why am I freezing?
2. Since I am freezing...could it be anemia?  My iron levels haven't been horrible....


(And yes... my heat is on, I'm dressed in layers, and under blankets...   suggestions?) <--- I guess that was my third question?...Ha!  That's my fourth!

[Annig83]

LOL...just realized that my post title...is a question!!  Oh my goodness.... Okay, I'm done!

[jbeany]

I was always freezing at hemo.  Even though they heated the blood being pumped back in, it wasn't body temp.  It's inevitable that would lower mine.  I'm betting your PD fluid isn't body temp either. 

Stick a thermometer against the line - see what temp it is.  Compare it to yours.  Even a couple of degrees colder is going to make you shiver!

[deniferfer]

To answer all your questions.. LOl 

I'm on PD also and yeah sometimes I get really cold when it fills too. Its usually only on the 1st fill. That is because I have found that the machine warms it but not completely for the 1st fill. So what do is try to set up a little earlier and I let in sit and warm up for about a hour before. The other thing you can check the machine and see what the setting the bag temp is. During the winter months I turn in up and in the summer I turn it back down.

Anemia? Maybe..When my iron drops I don't get cold, I just get pale and tired. Oh and crave to have ice chips!! But you could be different.

The only other time I get really cold is if I over do myself and I get too tried. I find I get every cold and its hard for me to warm up.

I think I got them all! Hope this helps.   

 

[gothiclovemonkey]

i did the manual exchanges, and half the time i forgot to heat up my bags, so thats probably why i was so cold, but even when i did remember id get chilled, so it probably has alot to do with just the general change, because im sure they dont heat them to your body temp reguardless...

[*kana*]

I wrap up in an electric blanket for my first fill or you can request a heating pad and place your first bag on the pad in the morning.  I have the Liberty and it doesnt start warming until I hook everything up. 

[Joe]

I do get cold from time to time, but not when I'm cycling. I do set by bags up well before I actually connect, like 3 hours or so. I do this because I have a manual I need to get in and dwell 3 hours before going on the cycler for the night. And I use the cycler heater to heat the 2L manual bag too. So I set up the machine, warm up my 2L bag then leave it on with the 6L bags for the night. That said, I think I just get colder easier now that my kidneys have failed.

[mcclane]

I remember when I was on PD, I did get cold very easily.  It was also embarrassing, it could be mid spring, temps in the mid teens, people are in tshirts/shorts, and I'm bundled up in a parka and mitts.  It wasn't until I did nocturnal hemo that the cold feeling went away, or most of it. 

I'm not sure what the cause maybe, low hemoglobin ?  Or high creatine levels ?

[ChrisEtc]

I prefer it to be cold over hot.  I usually bring a blanket so I'm good with cold.  When it's hot?  That really sucks.  The temperature is always a battle at my clinic!  Luckily I win most of those... haha!

[Restorer]

When I was on PD, the unheated bags were really nice in the summer, when I was feeling too hot. As the weather got colder (and I kept my bags in the garage), the first fill on the Newton cycler was pretty cold if I didn't preheat the bags for 2 hours. I'd just wrap up in a comforter in bed and shiver a bit until I warmed up.

Other than that, I felt chronically cold when I was anemic. It made going to night classes in the fall/winter difficult. Tylenol sometimes helped readjust my body temperature set point.