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Benefits of a Pretreatment Saline Flush

1.5yrs in to doing HHD and about a month ago I began to feel super drained out, and fatigued with a pounding headache post session that I would always have to lay down and crash afterwards. Mentioned it to my nephrologist and she mentioned 2 options moving forward:

  1. Swapping out the standard cartridge for a hypoallergenic option.
  2. Start doing saline flushes of the filter pretreatment

I tried the 2nd option and I immediately noticed a huge difference. The symptoms mentioned above disappeared! 🤗

I now perform a pretreatment saline flush before each lyfealysis session and now I feel as one should after detoxing the blood for 3hrs.

Anyone else have this experience too?

My question is: why don’t they mention these options during training?? Options are good!

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u/Al-Khemetic — 1 day ago
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Back CVC after complications with the fistula

Back to CVC after complications with fistula.

The fistula has been compromised with stubborn hematomas, lots of pain and swelling and after a few attempts to cannulate - two times resulting in infiltration last week, the vascular surgeon wants me to rest it for 6weeks and to use the CVC access during this time 😮‍💨 This is a 1.5 years in to having it.
Anyone else have or is having a similar experience?

u/Al-Khemetic — 1 day ago