Yesterday I tried to take 700 mg of Caffeine total and that includes the caffeine from the energy drink that I am drinking at my every session. My blood pressure didn't came down, it went to about 100 Systolic but that is my normal BP on session and doesn't make my nurses now to go and adjust and fiddle around the dialysis machine.
So around half the time that I am hooked-up there is still a worry in my mind that my BP would come down. It actually didn't and went to be 120 Systolic upon the return of my blood.
That is not what I am expecting though because I really for myself wanted to feel the energy-sapping cramps-inducing effects of dialysis but on my dialysis center cramps seldom happen. I am believing that we are not getting the best treatment as we deserve because a good dialysis will make you feel so tired and so hungry.
For my case I still felt the effects of my caffeine, meaning that it wasn't being washed-away almost completely otherwise I will be able to sleep when I get home. It is unfortunate for me to ever take Caffeine because even though I liked it happy effects, that stimulating effect in the brain that makes a good mood out of you I really do not like the intermittent insomnia that it causes me.
Plus I was not removed with the targeted fluids that I told my renal nurses to do. Either they didn't follow what I told them to do or the machine is at fault. Either of the two it is not serving me right. Those are my concerns that really affects my well-being. The dialysis goal is to make the patient feel better in-between dialysis days and apparently in my opinion it just doesn't happen in my expectations.
Anyway at my next treatment session God-wiling I will try to reduce Caffeine intake by 200 mg. I am trying to find out which amount should I take without compromising my long-standing blood pressure issues and my sleep afterwards.
I just do not like being so stimulated still after my session. One factor is that the head nurse is just setting the blood pump again at 200 mL per minute, it should be at least 250 and even at 250 mL per minute that is still slow compared to western standards.
The only thing that makes my dialysis a bit satisfactory for me was my dialyzer type, a high flux dialyzer which has a bigger holes with its membranes. It causes bigger molecule toxins to get taken out, it really washes the blood so well which is why I am not getting that ammonia breath anymore that early.
Anyway that is my plan, my next plan is to make my nurses roll the blood pump faster again but prior to that I must take 700 mg of caffeine again and see how it will go again. Recently I am giving myself an extra allowance of water to drink at treatment time because they are setting that freaki'n "sodium" setting up high so that my BP will get high during treatment, one thing is does is it makes me so thirsty which is why I am drinking that much to quench my thirst.
Dialysis is not just you will sit and let the nurses do their thing otherwise I will end-up basically dying because for certain I will get congested of not getting not cleaned satisfactorily with my blood. There are so many variables and factors to consider.
That is maybe the reason that I am still surviving until now because I am always finding the root cause of the problem and then trying to nip the bud before it causes much worse problems later on.