Hated todays D session..

[Xbandito]

Oh what a day, 20mins to go till end of session, alarms galore, arterial pressure warning and another warning alarm but I was not with it, my head was soooo so light headed, it was like I had been smoking something   . Apparently it was my blood was starting to clot whilst in the D machine  . My nurse was looking at me....hopefully to see if I was still with it, I was till I went to put my feet on the floor, wobbly was me. The only thing that has changed, was they upped my pump speed from 250 to 350. Not a happy bunny still, still light headed. Will be questioning this on Tuesday, dont want to go through this again.

[dwcrawford]

OMG, that's scary.  What is the pressure supposed to be?

I'd say it was because you made fun of a donkey, but this isn't funny, is it.  For sure find out what happened.

[looneytunes]

Oh Bandito...it sure sounds scary.   Hubby had some of those light-headed wobbly days on hemo too.  I teased him calling him a "high stepper" when he came off because he would lift his feet higher when he walked.  He said it was because he wasn't real sure how close the ground was.  I hope you get this resolved and it doesn't happen to you again. 

[Xbandito]

Have not got a clue but I will have, standing my ground on Tues, want everything to be as it was, pump at 250 etc, felt ok with that.
To make things worse, just had a rather biggie of a nose bleed, not had one of them since the days of playing rugby

Meeeeee make fun of ass.....naaa you got the wrong one, I'm super squirrel, not CAI Kidney 

[KICKSTART]

Usually these are the symptoms of 'crashing' caused by a drop in BP or taking to much fluid off you .

[Xbandito]

No fluid withdrawn....he was going to but I persuaded him not to, for I was 2kilos under my dry weight.
What can cause a drop in BP ?.....sleeping, fell asleep for an hour but that was the first hour, the other two hours I was wide awake.

[fc2821]

    Too "dry" it seems.  Your body can only give up so much fluid, then it goes "no more". Bp will drop when your fluid level gets too low.  You feel light headed and your stomach has "butterflies".  Sometimes standing up can cause your bp to drop, a lot, happens to me all the time. There are several reasons for that, but most often it is because your hert has to move the blood differntly when your vetical.

     Ask questions, insist on answers.  Raise the blood Pressure issue, and did they notice it falling. If you start to feel "odd" mention to the staff..  Good luck.

[Xbandito]

That could be an answer, for I did lose a lot on monday, with the dreaded  bug and I was 2 kilos under at start of D and 1.3 kilos at end of D, but my D session on Wed was fine but I was only on a pump speed of 250, not 350 like today.
The BP issue seems odd to me, for I was 141/88 at start and I think I was 143/79 at end today, which is high for me and put that with pulse of 113 at end, both are higher than they have been for years, at least 10 years.
I think he noticed something was up, in the way he looked at me at the end but my brain was not functioning, would not send any words down to my mouth 

Time to stamp my foot and have a paddy and insist that they leave things as they were....working