Once the kidneys have failed, the only treatments are dialysis or transplant. And that is all. Your life is just sustained with drugs and drastic treatments. Despite these obstacles, many patients tell us they work hard to maintain a positive outlook and live their lives to the fullest. Donate Now. You can ask for numbing medicine before you get the needle sticks if they bother you. Many people get used to the needles in time.
Painful muscle cramps can happen during hemodialysis, especially if you gain a lot of fluid weight between treatments. Your care team can help stop the cramps when they happen and work with you to keep them from happening again. You can help by following your fluid limits and learning about dialysis. In peritoneal dialysis PD , abdominal pain can be a sign of an infection called peritonitis. Some people who do PD with a cycler machine sometimes have pain at the end of a drain cycle.
Unless you are very sick for reasons other than kidney failure , dialysis should help you feel better. Some people feel better the first week. Others notice a difference after a few months. If your dialysis treatments make you feel ill or tired, tell your care team your symptoms so they can help you feel better.
Dialysis will not make your health worse. Many people need a few weeks to adjust to dialysis. The recovery time is complicated by the reality that many of these patients go to sleep following their evening hemodialysis, at a relatively normal time, making it difficult to assess whether they have actually recovered or not.
These patients may benefit from the approach offered by Sklar et al. The approach of Dubin et al. Hence, the context in which the one question approach is asked may need to be considered prior to evaluating DRT. Given the case study approach using a small sample size for this pilot project, broader investigation is necessary to more accurately determine the effects of the stepped approach in the effort to improve DRT.
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Written informed consent was obtained from the patients. You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar. HK designed the study and contributed to the data collection, data analysis, drafting of the manuscript, and critical revisions.
TT was responsible for the study design, drafting the manuscript, and critical revisions. YK and AT participated in the study design, coordination, and critical revisions. AF and TI participated in its design and coordination. All authors were involved in the critical revision of the manuscript and approved the final version of the manuscript.
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