Sleeping at dialysis?

[kellyt]

Can you have visitors/guests at dialysis?

[goofynina]

I think that depends on your clinics rules and regulations, i have been to 3 clinics and i have been able to have visitors in all 3 but it seems there are some clinics that do not allow visitors at all, so i would think that would be a question that has to be answered by them.  And might i add, having a visitor helps the time pass so much more quickly, so hopefully they will allow you to have them 

[boxman55]

Can you have visitors/guests at dialysis?

Most clinics allow visitors but while you are being hooked up and also while you are coming off the visitors have to exit the area...Boxman

[Ang]

i  wouldn't  dare  try  and  sleep  at  my  center,   i  have  no  confidence  in  the  nurses  to  save  you  if  thinks  go  south  bound.  i'll  wait till  i  get   home  and  go  to  bed,my  center  doesn't  allow  visitors  while  your  coming  on  &  off.

[willieandwinnie]

My husband would never sleep when he was in center. He didn't trust them. When we started home hemo, for the longest time he wouldn't nap but it finally got comfortable enough to take short naps since I was sitting 2 feet away.

willieandwinnie

[RichardMEL]

My unit allows visitors when going on or coming off.. though lots of visitors freak out and can't handle seeing the needles go in etc lol.

[KT0930]

One center I was in allowed short visits of 20 minutes or less, and not while hooking up or disconnecting (I had a permcath at the time); one didn't allow visitors at all, not even my (now ex) husband my first time...wouldn't they prefer family members/caregivers really understand what's going on??

[Bajanne]

We are allowed visitors. However, it not very comfortable since there are only one or two stools in the area with the machines, so very few people actually come and stay with the patients while they are on dialysis.
Did I tell you guys that there is a prisoner on dialysis from this year?  He was extradited from the States.  He comes with two prison guards and two policemen.  He gets visitors all the time.  I get to chat with him sometimes.  He told me that he was in a prison in the US that was a medical facility.
I wondered why he had both prison guards and policemen, but I deduced that it is because he has not yet gone to court, so he is still in police custody.
One problem is that the guards hog the televisions!

[Jannie]

Saturday Ii slept nearly the whole time. Friday night I had stayed up til 2 am, so as soon as I got hooked up I just nodded off. The time went peacefully. Berfore I knew it I was out for the day. And my "weekend" is here. No dialysis Saturday ,Sunday,Monday. I don't need to go back until Tiesday morning.  I love weekends.

[Jannie]

I have to get up so early 4 am for 5:15 start time, I watch TV for awhile. At first I was too nervous to sleep, but now I close my eyes and nod off for an hour or so. It really helps pass the time.

[Ang]

i  refuse  point  blank  to  sleep  while  having  treatment,basically  don't  trust  the  nurses  to  save  me  if  something  bad  was  to  occur,seen  a  few  close  calls,didn't  like  what  i  saw.

[livecam]

Many of my fellow patients could sleep during their runs but for me it was pretty impossible.  I just didn't find being on treatment conducive to resting at all.  While I was there I kept busy reading, with my laptop, and occasionally with stuff from work that I could bring in.  I was worn out alot of the time but not to the point of being sleepy.  Too much was happening in the unit not only with me but with other patients, machine alarms, patient emergencies etc.

[Bajanne]

Actually, I forgot to tell you guys that the nurses don't really like us to sleep the whole time.  One of the nurses wakes you anytime she adds medication etc.  I wish she wouldn't, but she feels she has to.  Another nurse who is no longer in this country used to warn me not to sleep, that I need to be aware of what is going on.  But I can't help.  I love to sleep. To me, an excellent session is when I go straight to sleep when I am hooked up, and wake 10 minutes before I am taken off!

[Aldente]

When I first went on hemodialysis I did sleep.  On two occasions the wrong medications were brought to my station and I never slept again.  Call me a cynic, but I don't want anyone administering anything to me that I am unaware of.

[donnia]

Okay,  I have tried and tried...... I have not been able to fall asleep

[jbeany]

Ah, well, think of all the reading you'll get done!  I averaged about a novel and a half a session when I was in-clinic.

[CW]

This is kind of a  But also a relevant (and scary) post

At dialysis on Tuesday where me and one other patient are the only ones on the shift. The other patient was sleeping his bp dropped and his heart stopped. The nurses all went scrambling and they broke out the talking defibrillator - it was pandemonium! . All I could think was I hope he is alright because I know all of the employees are not the brightest.

So scary story over I sleep all the time it takes awhile but I usually get to sleep about an hour in; but what I hate the most is when I am sleep for 15 minutes and I think I was asleep an hour and a half . I am a terrible drooler and I hope I am not a SLEEPFARTER (that is the technical term I believe )  I will say this to all those who are worried about it - you will never know - who would have the nerve to tell you? I lived with a woman for years and she was a SLEEPFARTER but I could never bring myself to tell her until years after I broke up with her .

CW

[RichardMEL]

OK have had a bloke in my unit... a big boy (over 100kgs) and he sleeps all the time on the machine.. and snores loudly! LOL... but this got kind of serious the other day when he could NOT be woken!!! Normally he wakes up before his time is done and it's all good.. but this time he was in a deep sleep nothing could rouse him... in the end they had to call the med emergency team (aka cast of thousands) to wake him up.. I'm not sure what they did but they eventually woke him up. Pretty scary. Of course this is a guy who chain smokes, overloads on fluid and don't appear to follow any kind of renal diet.. I am not sure if that is related or not but potentially a reminder that bad things can happen if you don't try to do the right thing by yourself.

Of course I try to do that and I crashed today - first time in AGES!! d'oh!! So who knows!

[Mimi]

So scary story over I sleep all the time it takes awhile but I usually get to sleep about an hour in; but what I hate the most is when I am sleep for 15 minutes and I think I was asleep an hour and a half . I am a terrible drooler and I hope I am not a SLEEPFARTER (that is the technical term I believe )  I will say this to all those who are worried about it - you will never know - who would have the nerve to tell you? I lived with a woman for years and she was a SLEEPFARTER but I could never bring myself to tell her until years after I broke up with her .

CW

That's a new one on me.  Never heard of a sleepfarter.

Mimi


EDITED - Quote error corrected - Bajanne, Moderator

[okarol]

  ...Sleepfarter... is that a medical term? 

[donnia]

Okay, I have found the power of Benedryl !!!!  NOw I get Benedryl and sleep 2 1/2 hours out of my treatment!   Treatment is much easier to get through now!

[G]

You mean those soft leather recliners are suppose to keep us awake? Sleeeeep..... goooooood

[flip]

Phenergan works good if you want to sleep. I'm usually too busy hitting on the nurses to want to sleep.

[cambonesegirl]

When I went to dialysis I would sleep the whole treatment because I was there five in the morning. I'm a snorer and a drooler but I don't think the attention was on me, there were louder snores out there, but as for the drooling, I hid under my blanket 

[karen547]

So I get benadryl at dialysis and I cannot fall asleep still! I desperately want to try and sleep there because work tires me out, and well when I go home and try to sleep, I just end up waking up off and on because I have to be up early the next morning early for work! Any good tips or tricks???