What I do is not drink a whole can or bottle of water/soda/whatever at once. I might open it, take a few sips, then put it in the fridge then come back to it later. This can stretch say 350ml over a few hours.I also keep a rough count in my head of how much I have had and try to pace through the day....I also use my scales as almost a religion at times... so I can keep myself on target before the next session, or close to anyway.
Sauna should probably help. You are likely lose good 2 - 3 kilos of body fluid after a good session.
Unfortunately anyhting frozen turns into water weight gain when it hits your system. Jello, ice cubes, freezies, popsicles all turn to water after you eat it. That is why they count toward the water gain and not food prep gain when you calculate how much you have had in fluid. Include water from lettuce, soups and ices in your calculations also. That is why you may be water heavy. You are not calculating everything into the water weigh in.
I have banned all "other" forms of liquid in my diet... like ice cream, custard, soup etc...and yes, I also get the smallest containers of whatever I want to drink... which is economic suicide given how much more expensive/ml they are, but like the others if I had a bigger bottle or can of something it would be too tempting to drink the whole thing.my goal for today is to only drink a 300ml bottle of water while at work....*fingers crossed for me* must... appply.... willpower!
My cab driver suggested I get a 2L bottle of a drink I like and I explained to him how I drink so little that that bottle would be opened so many times it would be FLAT!
As Angie stated, PD is much more forgiving with fluid restrictions, but it became too labor, and time intensive for me. I got to the point that I was spending over half my life, simply staying alive, and went back to hemo.
I was on a cycler and did mine by night also. I was on 8 hours. There was probably 30 minutes setting up, with three bags, there was another 20 minutes unhooking, draining used solution, and putting away trash. There was another manual daytime exchange for another 45 minutes or more. Add for the time for arranging and inventorying your supplies, doing your epo shots, several trips to carry out trash each week, cleaning your access daily, and other misc. duties. They wanted to add another bag to my cycler and another two hours daily. I didn't require that much sleep, I seldom sleep 8 hours. 10 hours on the cycler was too much for me. I also considered, the difficulty in traveling. It's not impossible, I've even made manual exchanges in my truck while driving. It does require a truck to carry all the supplies and machine, if you're going for more than a day or two. I wanted to be able to take weekend motorcycle trips and didn't see anyway way I would ever be able to do this on PD with no days off. There are good sides and bad sides to either choice. On PD, I consistently felt better, & was able to pretty much drink all I wanted. I have more freedom on hemo, and all the work is done for me, but I don't feel as well, and I have a terrible trying to control my fluids. JMO
the doctors told me that the PD had nothing with my IBS, it suddenly disappeared, after changing to hemo, and getting my plumbing out.
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