Sleeping while dialyzing in-center?

[Alex C.]

How easy is it to do? With an eye mask and earmuffs? Do any of you take the opportunity to  catch up on sleep?

[mamagemini]

Almost every single sitting!

[malaka]

Maybe an hour per session.  I start at 6:00 a.m., so its not too hard to fall back to sleep.  My center is quiet, too.

[jeannea]

Always varied for me. Sometimes right to sleep, sometimes impossible. Ear plugs are totally up to you. Take a blanket. They keep it cool in there for the machines.

[Riki]

yeah, it doesn't take much for me either... the staff at my centre are very gracious as well.. I've asked them before if I was snoring, and they'd say no, but I woke myself up snoring, so I know they're lying...

[CatonTheRoof]

While I was at hemo I used to bring my laptop and some good earphones.   Would cover my eyes, and listen to some nice Chopin or Mozart    It always worked well.  Much better than being wide awake looking at those white-hospital lights

[kit78]

About an hour a day...now that I moved away from the GUM popper....

[Mr Pink]

I'm still pretty new to the dialysis caper, and have really only slept once, but slept like a baby for about three hours. I was pretty tired, to be fair, having not slept too well the night before. Overall, however, my sleeping has improved since I started dialysis, although not so much in the chair except for that one time. Although that said, I'm looking forward to many hours of sleep in the chair.

[jbeany]

The only time I ever managed it was when I went to D straight from a fistulagram and was doped up on Versed.  I never could sleep in-center.  Too much noise and way to uncomfortable in the chair.

[The Lady]

I try to.

It's been harder lately. A loudmouth changed shifts and thinks he's too good for earphones and plays his TV so everyone can hear it. Plus he talks loud everytime a tech or nurse gets near him wanting to chat. Plus, he talks on the phone loud. Who he's talking to at 6AM is beyond me, but I'd like to kill him every time I see him. 

The guy next to me also seems to think if he can't sleep or he's being taken off that he, too, is expected to be the loudest person possible. He also packs his earphones and leaves his TV on while he's holding, guarenteed to keep me awake.

I hate it.

[lmunchkin]

Almost every single sitting!

Same for John.  The minute he hooks up and I shut my trap,lol, he is snoring away.  I imagine it gets pretty boring after so long. Why not sleep!  Make it seem like seconds instead of hours.

lmunchkin

[tiredandthirsty]

i have been trying to catch a nap since the beginning.  still haven't been able to do it.  just too uncomfortable with the chair, needles in arm etc.  i am wide awake the whole time.

[ChrisEtc]

I can never sleep.  Too many loud ass employees.

[WishIKnew]

I was never able to really sleep.  They gave me a benidryl and I was sometimes able to snooze a little but I heard every beep beep beep of every machine and never really slept.  Hope you can!  Take a warm blanket and a favorite pillow!

[lmunchkin]

Sorry,didnt read "In-Center" on your topic.  Yea, it was not easy for him to sleep in center, for same reasons others above have said.

lmunchkin

[AnnieB]

I am thinking about doing in-center nocternal hemo. Is sleeping still a problem?
Anne

[noahvale]

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[sullidog]

I dozed a few times but for reasons mentioned above could not sleep

[Riki]

wow.. you guys must go to crappy centres...  in mine, mind you, it's brand new, each station has it's own lights and light switches.  Most of us like to have the lights off, but the nurses go one step more.  They turn the main hall lights out as well.  The light really bothers my eyes, so I love it.  The only problem I have is when the sun comes up, and it comes blaring through the window.  The blinds don't do much.  There is one nurse who, if she sees me shading my eyes from the sun, will pull the privacy curtain to block it for me.  Everyone seems to stay pretty quiet.  Even the tvs don't get too loud.  The speakers on the channel changer thingie doesn't get that loud, and if you don't have headphones, you need to have this thing sitting next to your head in order to hear.  I sit at a station that doesn't have a tv, but I bring my laptop and watch downloaded movies and tv shows while I'm there.  We have no internet access yet, but I'm not really holding my breath for that.

[Marsh]

I sleep for the entire 3 hours.....they have to wake me up at the end of my session!!

[Lexxtech18]

At my last unit I had no problem sleeping through all 3.5 hours, the place was relatively quiet. But at my new unit they like to play Christmas music all day, including at my 6am on time. So I find it hard to fall asleep. Lol

[dialysis.sucks]

I've just started recently sleeping while on dialysis. Ive always been afraid, with the angle I'm at in the chair, that I'm going to start snoring which I normally dont do, but nevertheless, I constantly wake myself up. Ive found though that a little promethazine or Benedryl helps out in keeping me out. When I'm fluid overloaded I find a little O2 and Benadryl means I sleep 2.5 of the 3 hours and wake up feeling better than I would normally just sitting there. Strangely enough I think the extra O2 helps with less cramping as well (allowing for higher fluid removal)

I also wear polarized sunglasses that kills most of the glare from the lights and noise canceling headphones with my ipod turned up. In fact I (unbeknownst to me, until I was being pulled off) drowned out a patient who was directly behind me last week that didnt get her psych meds that morning at her home and was quite literally screaming, biting and hitting the tech's and nurses. She even destroyed the dash of her transportation vehicle and 911 had to be called. Thank God for a lil "All That Remains"