About to start PD. 'Pulling Sensation'?
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:34 pm
Hello all
I'm 36 and was diagnosed with CKD in 2015 by accident and while I was in seemingly good health (thank goodness for a routine appointment on a bad shoulder!)
This is the first time I've posted anything and have sort of avoided forums as I'm keeping positive and find reading other experiences that haven't been so great a bit of a downer! However, I'm after some advice.
I had an op before Christmas to have PD catheter fitted. I currently have GFR7% and due to go on the Baxter training in two weeks.
I recovered from the op relatively quickly and have been pain free for about two weeks now. However, whilst checking my tubing etc last week the nurses put 1.5 litres in and then drained it out just to check it was all functioning. I felt quite a painful pulling sensation during the draining which they said wasn't unusual. However, I seem to be left with this 'ghosting' pulling pain since then and haven't had any fluids in or out. It also seems to be pulling on my bladder and I find I'm needing the toilet more often and have bladder pain (it's as if I'm desperate for the loo but having to hold it in-that sort of pain!).
I just wondered if it was usual to get this pain when not actually dialysing and if it will ease up when I start?
Any advice would be very helpful
Thanks
I'm 36 and was diagnosed with CKD in 2015 by accident and while I was in seemingly good health (thank goodness for a routine appointment on a bad shoulder!)
This is the first time I've posted anything and have sort of avoided forums as I'm keeping positive and find reading other experiences that haven't been so great a bit of a downer! However, I'm after some advice.
I had an op before Christmas to have PD catheter fitted. I currently have GFR7% and due to go on the Baxter training in two weeks.
I recovered from the op relatively quickly and have been pain free for about two weeks now. However, whilst checking my tubing etc last week the nurses put 1.5 litres in and then drained it out just to check it was all functioning. I felt quite a painful pulling sensation during the draining which they said wasn't unusual. However, I seem to be left with this 'ghosting' pulling pain since then and haven't had any fluids in or out. It also seems to be pulling on my bladder and I find I'm needing the toilet more often and have bladder pain (it's as if I'm desperate for the loo but having to hold it in-that sort of pain!).
I just wondered if it was usual to get this pain when not actually dialysing and if it will ease up when I start?
Any advice would be very helpful
Thanks