Recall that this past Thursday I met with my Dialysis Team. As a result of my latest PET indicating that my Transport flipped from High to Low, my prescription was altered. Part of this change was to leave one liter of fluid in my stomach after my daily treatment where it would be removed first upon hooking up for treatment in the evening.
After unhooking every morning, I now have three data points on my weight. My weight had run consistently at 146.8 or 147.8 for weeks and months. The last three readings are 150.0, 152.2, and 155.8. According to a Perplexity search, PD fluid typically weighs about 1 Kilogram per liter depending on the solution. So retaining a liter of fluid should raise my weight by about 2.2 pounds (one kilo). This would make my current weight to be about 150 lbs max (147.8 + 2.2 = 150). This would infer that my first weight is “in there” while the 152.2 and certainly the 155.8 are out in left field.
BTW, my closing screen on the Liberty Cycler, the machine that conducts the PD treatment, indicates clearly that 1007 mL of fluid constituted the last fill. Associated with the 155.8 weight was a negative microfiltration of 494 indicating that some fluid over the 1007 was left in after treatment but this would not explain the 155.8. Bottom line, I don’t have a clue what is going on. Standby! And I don’t see how I can do a StatDrain either. This morning my wt was 155.2 with positive microfiltration of over 800.
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