Today at least I was able to complete my session because my blood pressure did not crash. What happened was that my predialysis weight was big so I wasn't able to add half a kilo to what was supposed to be removed from my body unlike in the past few weeks where I am able to add because my predialysis weight was below 3.5 kilos.
So I went home about .9 kilo heavier than what I am usually targeting. But I may have gotten relatively fat already because if I would target my original dry weight of 36.5 Kg my blood pressure would crash. Today I went home with 37.4 Kilo weight and still my blood pressure went down to 100 Systolic.
So I do think that I may have gained weight already but if I would gain 4 Kg of weight from 37.4 post-dialysis weight I already am not feeling good already. So I am not so sure which is which if I did gained weight or not because I still feel that I am easily filled-up with fluids if I would go home with 37.4 post-dialysis weight as opposed to 36.5 where I feel more "room" for fluids in my body.
Image by Oberholster Venita from Pixabay
So what now? Maybe I will readjust what I weight that I was targeting to achieve now and would just target 37 Kg instead of 36.5 so if my blood pressure will crash again next time then my real weight will be around 37.4 Kg.
My real weight computation is really complicated because of the way that the crookedness of my backbone affected my breathing because it just squeezed my lungs to the point that I have to reduce my body fluid volume so that I can make more room for my lungs to expand when I breathe.
That is why I am easily to get breathless with even a minimal exertion and I did felt that when my backbone is just starting to get crooked many years ago until I am fully breathless already when I would attempt to try to walk and reducing my body's body fluid volume is just one of the way I can reduce my breathlessness.
At least I had found a way to make myself more comfortable with my breathing now unlike other patients who are just reliant on the renal nurse's judgement which is why most patient's cause of mortality is fluids in the lungs.