My Conclusion For My Successful Dialysis Today
I think that this has been the fifth time that I went from my session and successfully completing it without my blood pressure crashing like Hive tokens. It is because I was not eating while hooked-up for my dialysis.
For so many years I had thought that eating while hooked at dialysis would make my BP to get stable but nothing couldn't be more farther from the truth that it is not so. For so many years I had been made to worry especially during the last couple of hours before the termination time where my blood pressure would go considerably depressed.
So I would really try to eat more and it came to a point that I took large doses of Caffeine just to jack-up my BP and still I would feel uncomfortable because my BP would go down at the discomfort level.
But let it be known now for people with family members or relatives under dialysis, they have to not eat while being dialyzed lest they will get a crashing BP. The best thing to do is to eat before and after dialysis. In that way the BP won't simply crash.
But I am still using Caffeine though and I will try if I can lower the dosage, maybe a capsule of 200 mg may suffice plus my energy drink which contains 100 mg only. I just liked the taste of it which is why I want to drink it while hooked up although I do not like its artificial sweetener ingredient.
Now my plan is that I will just eat an hour before the termination time if my favorite food will be available again after the covid-caused lockdown. It is because so that for a moment at least I will experience an enjoyment in eating which doesn't happen in-between dialysis days because of my appetite problem. Thanks be to God.
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It's amazing how much we continue to learn and grow. Your comment about "BP crashing like Hive tokens" made me laugh. There are quite a few foods which raise blood pressure - might be worth a quick search engine to see if anything there is an option for an end-after dialysis snack. Garbanzo beans (chick peas) are one - yummy boiled and then roasted in the oven with sea salt for an easy snack. I often have low blood pressure and changing what I eat has helped.
There are reasons that I really want to eat at dialysis @artemislives
One is that my appetite returns while I am hooked up and it is really enjoyable to eat. Outside dialysis my appetite crashes again because of my Parathyroid medicine that I am taking everyday.
Plus I thought that it supports my BP because of the blood sugar, fluids, and sodium from the food and drinks that I intake adds volume to the blood and thus the raising of the BP but it was not the case, the opposite happens and my BP crashes.
Now at least I am more confident in my future sessions and my worries of if I would finish my dialysis or not is no longer in my thoughts. So I thank God for that even thought it took years for me to realize that BP crash issues.
Learning every day is good. 🙂
Thank you for supplying this good info on BP crashing with eating. You never know what family member could all the sudden need dialysis or even myself.
Thanks my friend !!