BUSTI
08-12-2004, 03:13 PM
For years now I have been suffering from kidney desease. Several months ago I was diagnosed with end stage kidney desease. My doctors are doing alot of last ditch effort ct imaging to see if I have a blockage to my kidneys and if I did then they would do angioplasty to releieve it.............however in the past the ct imaging scans including MRI's haven't shown anything and it is doubtful they will now. I am on a transplant list now but it takes years to get one even if you get one, so in the mean time my dr.s have recommended dialysis.
My question is this....do any of you have experience with relatives on dialysis? I am electing to go on Pertoneal Dialysis(DP) instead of hemo-dialysis because of the convienence of being able to do it at home with my own machine and with the aide of my wife. With hemo dialysis you have to go to a clinic 3 days a week 6 hours per day to totally draw your blood out into a machine and have it filtered and then reinserted into your body. Usually visiting the clinic every other day. With PD I would still have cathators inserted into my body and daily would have to go on the machine but I could do it in the prvacy of my home at night. Even though this treatment is still required daily I could take the machine to my river house when on vacation and such and otherwise live a routine life at work and at play.
Does anybody know any thing about Pertoneal Dialysis? Or have any experience with this form of dialysis? Your input would be appreciated as my doctors want me to make a decision soon as to the type of cathators to surgically implant: either the two tubes in my wrist and viens for hemodialysis or one tube in my belly for pertoneal dialysis.
Please pm me as my kidney function is down to 15 percent and in the next two weeks my wife and I have decide which type to go with.
Thanks Richard
My question is this....do any of you have experience with relatives on dialysis? I am electing to go on Pertoneal Dialysis(DP) instead of hemo-dialysis because of the convienence of being able to do it at home with my own machine and with the aide of my wife. With hemo dialysis you have to go to a clinic 3 days a week 6 hours per day to totally draw your blood out into a machine and have it filtered and then reinserted into your body. Usually visiting the clinic every other day. With PD I would still have cathators inserted into my body and daily would have to go on the machine but I could do it in the prvacy of my home at night. Even though this treatment is still required daily I could take the machine to my river house when on vacation and such and otherwise live a routine life at work and at play.
Does anybody know any thing about Pertoneal Dialysis? Or have any experience with this form of dialysis? Your input would be appreciated as my doctors want me to make a decision soon as to the type of cathators to surgically implant: either the two tubes in my wrist and viens for hemodialysis or one tube in my belly for pertoneal dialysis.
Please pm me as my kidney function is down to 15 percent and in the next two weeks my wife and I have decide which type to go with.
Thanks Richard