Signs of overlifiquation (Too much water)

[julian230]

Okay , so it's the long weekend , or the week , you just had a couple of glasses of water. You don't have a scale , and if you do , you still don't trust that the dialysis unit has your correct dry  weight  . What are the signs for you that you have too much water? Mine are my hands become a bit stiff . What are some other signs you get when you got too much of that water on board!   Seeing as I can't rely on edema since I don't get it in my legs or arms . In my face sometimes, and blood pressure is always low even when too much water is on board!

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The old rule of thumb is one quart plus your urine output for the day. I don't worry too much about it because pulling a couple of kilos doesn't really affect me.

[RichardMEL]

When you become seriously fluid overloaded the usual signs apart from bloating in the usual places (arms, legs etc.. and in my case the tummy) is shortness of breath and a feeling of weight in the chest and potentially pain in that area (as the fluid settles around the heart/lungs). There may be other symptoms but those are the main ones I think.

Even if you don't trust the unit to get your IDW correct I find it useful to use my own scales as a guide to how much I have gained. So I get home from dialysis and take my weight then - I can then see over the time till the next treatment roughly how much weight(fluid) I have gained - even if my own scales are off, they should be consistently off enough to give a reasonable reading of the weight *change* so I can keep it to a 2kg (or so) change between treatments (and yes, the weekends ARE the hardest - by far!!)

[Wallyz]

Any hting more than 2 kilos /day is too much for me.  I feel it in my feet, stomach, and nose.

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Any hting more than 2 kilos /day is too much for me.  I feel it in my feet, stomach, and nose.

how does your nose feel
I think a sure sign of too much fluid is your pants are hard to pull up