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« Reply #50 on: October 23, 2009, 02:44:12 PM »
If I cannot get to sleep sometimes I use the breathing technique. Concentrate on your breathing and count one on the breath in and two on the breath out. Do this until everything is just concentrating on your breathing.  This often puts me to sleep.
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« Reply #51 on: November 08, 2009, 11:45:58 PM »
I bring pillows to put in the chair so it is more like a bed.  Then I lay on my side and sleep like I am in bed.  I have a cathiter not a fistula.  They tried a fistula operation on my arm and the vein went flat the next day.  My arm  hurts so bad I have to use vicodine all dasy to stop the pain.  The doc cut my nerves and fused them into a mass that is always pain full.  During the dialysis their machine sucks all the pain killer from my system and by the end of treatment I am is screeming pain.  Some time I have to take an oxy and vicodine to stop the nerve pain.  also to eliminate the noise I use industrial ear plugs.
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« Reply #52 on: February 23, 2010, 03:35:45 PM »
reading or drawing a picture makes the time fly!!!
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« Reply #53 on: February 23, 2010, 05:00:24 PM »
I can't sleep on the machine. For one our chairs are leather and very unconforting. I am one that sleeps better on my side and not my back but when I try it the techs always yell at me for putting too much strain on the lines and my access.
Now what I think they should do is just give us regular hospital beds and maybe we could all sleep well.
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May 13, 2009, went to urgent care with shortness of breath
May 19, 2009, went to doctor for severe nausea
May 20, 2009, admited to hospital for kidney failure
May 20, 2009, started dialysis with a groin cath
May 25, 2009, permacath was placed
august 24, 2009, was suppose to have access placement but instead was admited to hospital for low potassium
august 25, 2009, access placement
January 16, 2010 thrombectomy was done on access
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« Reply #54 on: March 04, 2010, 08:22:07 PM »
After eleven years in dialysis centers I find I can sleep almost anywhere.  I fell asleep in Union Station in the food court in Chicago with my daughter watching me.  I put my head on my coat on the table and out I went for a few minutes.  A dialysis center is a lot like a train station. Noisy!
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« Reply #55 on: March 04, 2010, 08:25:19 PM »
Now that I've been on Dialysis for a few months, I am starting to  catch a few zzzzzs while on the dreaded machine.
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« Reply #56 on: March 04, 2010, 09:01:25 PM »
  I never    sleep on dialysis......    I am busy doing this stuff....computer stuff.....
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« Reply #57 on: March 04, 2010, 09:05:50 PM »
I never could sleep when I was in center, since I have been home doing Nxstage I sleep, I am comfy in my own bed.
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« Reply #58 on: March 05, 2010, 01:15:29 AM »
I understand that for a while after going on D you still have to P. For me, that is urgent and I do mean right now. So, if you wake up half an hour before your time is up, what do you do?
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One day at a time, thats all I can do.
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