AaishaDar
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« on: September 04, 2017, 01:02:18 AM » |
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Does anyone know why my blood pressure is starting to drop now? Like its rare for me being the fact Im always fluid overloaded. Also starting to get dizzy during treatment which is also rare.
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cassandra
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« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2017, 03:44:04 AM » |
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Hi AaishaDar are you taking BP meds?
Love, Cas
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I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left
1983 high proteinloss in urine, chemo, stroke,coma, dialysis 1984 double nephrectomy 1985 transplant from dad 1998 lost dads kidney, start PD 2003 peritineum burst, back to hemo 2012 start Nxstage home hemo 2020 start Gambro AK96
still on waitinglist, still ok I think
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AaishaDar
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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2017, 09:50:36 AM » |
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No im not taking any bp meds
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« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2017, 06:27:08 PM » |
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After I had heart surgery I had to stop taking BP meds for a while. I had to eat pickles just to get my blood pressure up to a level so I would not feel bad. Eight months out I am now only taking a vey low dose BP med.
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« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2017, 09:01:09 PM » |
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Mine drops when my dry weight needs adjusting, and we get below where it should be.
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kristina
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« Reply #5 on: September 05, 2017, 03:54:31 AM » |
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Mine drops when my dry weight needs adjusting, and we get below where it should be.
It happened to me once that my BP went very low and I experienced a horrible "crash" which "messed-up" my whole oncoming weekend, because I felt too bad to do anything... ... since then I have made a point to take great care and make sure it won't repeat itself... In my case on that occasion the dry weight was not as low as it was thought to be... Good luck wishes from Kristina.
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« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2017, 05:00:47 AM » |
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I had to eat pickles just to get my blood pressure up to a level so I would not feel bad.
Pickles . . .. Tell us more, how do pickles help?
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« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2017, 07:06:28 AM » |
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Pickles are loaded with salt since they are created in a brine solution. Any high salt product helps. Which is why chicken soup is a popular low BP snack.r
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AaishaDar
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« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2017, 10:54:24 AM » |
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Today I felt dizzy again its weird Im laying down and im dizzy at timea scary. I could feel I still had fluid left in my body. I had to end 7 min early today because how dizzy I felt.
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« Reply #9 on: September 05, 2017, 12:31:52 PM » |
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You may be pulling off too much at the beginning, too fast. You may need to adjust how the fluid is pulled off, too. We had to do this for our daughter when she was on dialysis
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My name is Bruce and I am the caregiver for my daughter Holly who is 31 years old and received her kidney transplant on December 22, 2016 Holly's Facebook Kidney page: https://www.facebook.com/Hollys.transplantpage/Holly had a heart transplant at the age of 5 1/2 months in 1990. Heart is still doing GREAT! Holly was on hemodialysis for 2.5 years-We did NXStage home hemo from January 2016 to December 22, 2016 Holly's best Christmas ever occurred on December 22, 2016 when a compassionate family in their time of grief gave Holly the ultimate gift...a kidney!
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« Reply #10 on: September 05, 2017, 12:53:33 PM » |
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Everyone's a bit different it seems. My husband can pull off higher fluid in the beginning and I slow it down at the end. But yep once BP gets low (not crash low but maybe 103/68 or so) 2 low sodium pickles do the trick and get it back up to something like 125/80 and he can keep pulling fluid off.
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