Current Events > I'm getting really tired of dealing with Dialysis

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Not so much dialysis itself, but all the people who work there.

My nephrologist has been pushing me to get back into weight lifting for months. Now before I got my fistula, everyone told me that I wouldn't be able to lift much with that arm otherwise I'd hurt it. He has insisted that this is only when you first get it and wouldn't be the case if I started weightlifting.

So today I tell one of the techs that I am getting a membership with a gym and they absolutely flip the fuck out, and there is a damn meeting with everyone that works there telling me how that's such a dumb idea and it's going to destroy my fistula.

I tell them that it was the doctor that works there that has been pushing me to start lifting weights again for 3 months now. Suddenly they all change their tune and are like "oh, it's probably okay then."

So now I'm wondering if this is just a ploy to get me to ruin my fistula in an attempt to get me to move to Peritoneal dialysis since he spent the better part of a year begging me to switch to it.

I don't know, I don't trust any of these god damn people anymore cause they constantly fuck with my meds unnecessarily and give me all sorts of bad information and advice. This shit fucking sucks.
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Why are you on dialysis and what's a fistula
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I was on PD and now on hemo, PD is great why not try it?
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TennTux posted...

Why are you on dialysis and what's a fistula

Kidney failure, it's the vein they enlarge that they stick the needles into.

Kazi1212 posted...

I was on PD and now on hemo, PD is great why not try it?

Due to my muscle mass they say I'd have to be hooked up for like 6 to 12 hours a day.

Also I don't trust my doctor at all after he pushed for me to get my fistula only to delay my dialysis treatment for a whole year. It's a bit of a story I'll maybe tell it when I get to my computer
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Sorry to hear that, I fortunately had good luck with my dialysis clinics and doctors. I hear nasty stories about malpractice, but I guess someone is watching out for me
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I've had a few patients with fistulas and catheters and I thought doing anything with the fistula arm is a no no >_> (ie: lifting them by that arm, taking a BP on that arm, etc.)
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I lift pretty strenuously, havent had issues with my fistula personally
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Kazi1212 posted...

I lift pretty strenuously, havent had issues with my fistula personally

That's the thing, while I haven't been weight lifting I still do a lot of heavy lifting and they've never said a word about my fistula acting up or anything.

I still bring in all the groceries in one trip, I help my friends move all the time. Hell, I just helped my friend move a piano this weekend.

But it's hard for me to trust my doctor because he's steered me wrong in the past. He basically rushed me to get a fistula, acting like I needed to get into dialysis ASAP and then after I got the fistula he said I had a miraculous breakthrough and could postpone dialysis. And then he delayed me starting dialysis for a year. Everyone I talk to says it's a miracle the fistula even survived not being used for a year. That's not even getting into the fact that since he rushed me getting the fistula I basically had to use an out of network surgeon and ended up spending all of my savings on the surgery. And then as soon as I actually start dialysis, he's pushing me to go straight to PD making the fistula seem completely pointless.

Ugh I don't know I should probably look into changing doctors or something but there's not a lot of dialysis centers nearby. The next closest one is like 30 miles away.
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