the chairs are uncomfortable

[jambo101]

Our unit uses these chairs http://www.healthtec.co.uk/product/champion-59-series ,the 4th hour in these chairs can only be described as agony, getting new chairs is years away, im having a hard time justifying continued existance if my life is just about three days a week of pain and suffering.

[Michael Murphy]

When I started my 4.5 hour treatments were a agony by the third hour I purchased a gel foam cushion and while not perfect reduced the pain to a ok level. As time passed it became apparent I did not need gel foam cushion any more.  The other thing last week went to the Adirondacks and ended up in the Fresinius Saratoga Springs clinic(great place). They have a new style chair which seemed to have more padding.  Plus the reclining portion was different to recline the nurse or tech needed to pull a lever in back of the chair, this eliminates recliner creep so you are not always trying to sit up if you don’t want to recline.

[rcjordan]

At the clinic and now at home in my (seriously great!) medicare chair, I had trouble with recliner creep. I made a prop-stick that holds the lower leg session in the fully elevated position  without engaging the recliner back so I can sit straight up.  When my HHD nurse saw it, she asked me to make her one for her hhd training chair.

[Alexysis]

I find that sitting upright for the last hour or so helps me.

[GA_DAWG]

I push the recliner up to the wall to prevent the recliner creep. Jambo, I know it can be difficult, but I try not to focus on the time I spend in the chair, but rather the time out of it. ANYTHING I can do to make the time pass, be it music, TV, reading, sleeping whatever makes that time pass faster.

[Charlie B53]

I'm surprised I've been in this clinic 2 1/2 years already.

shortly after I started there they replaced almost all of the chairs, except mine.   I didn't care much for their new chairs, they are slightly different, a bit higher off the floor than the old one that I still have.  It is the ONLY old chair.

I bring my gel pad with the notch in the back, otherwise my tailbone contacts and drives me crazy.  I had a pilonidal cyst removed long long ago, as in 1974.  There is barely a layer of scar tissue covering the tip of the bone, so sitting on a firm surface for any length of time becomes VERY uncomfortable.  The gel pad with that notch, the scar doesn't touch anything but air.

Too many back injuries beside fracturing one of the lower L's and massive muscle tears, scarring, I have a favorite pillow I place just right, from the small of my back to the very bottom of my shoulder blades.  Tipping the chair half-back with the feet raised, and I'm good for most of the duration.

two or three hours in I do have to sort of scoot back an inch or two, but then I'm fine again.

One blankie over my legs and lap, plus my spare just for those days I feel a bit cool and need the other one over my shoulders.

Laptop, headphones, music, reading, snacks and cup of ice, next thing I know the alarm is going off, time to start putting everything away.

I swear I must be Blessed.

[Michael Murphy]

Yea I feel like a refugee every time I carry my stuff to get trough the 4.5 hours at dialysis.