I think that this has been the fifth time that I went from my session and successfully completing it without my blood pressure crashing like Hive tokens. It is because I was not eating while hooked-up for my dialysis.
For so many years I had thought that eating while hooked at dialysis would make my BP to get stable but nothing couldn't be more farther from the truth that it is not so. For so many years I had been made to worry especially during the last couple of hours before the termination time where my blood pressure would go considerably depressed.
So I would really try to eat more and it came to a point that I took large doses of Caffeine just to jack-up my BP and still I would feel uncomfortable because my BP would go down at the discomfort level.
But let it be known now for people with family members or relatives under dialysis, they have to not eat while being dialyzed lest they will get a crashing BP. The best thing to do is to eat before and after dialysis. In that way the BP won't simply crash.
But I am still using Caffeine though and I will try if I can lower the dosage, maybe a capsule of 200 mg may suffice plus my energy drink which contains 100 mg only. I just liked the taste of it which is why I want to drink it while hooked up although I do not like its artificial sweetener ingredient.
Now my plan is that I will just eat an hour before the termination time if my favorite food will be available again after the covid-caused lockdown. It is because so that for a moment I will experience an enjoyment in eating which doesn't happen in-between dialysis days because of my appetite problem.
I glad that it you have found something that works better. It kind of makes sense to me because eating takes a lot of energy to do and I would guess the blood moves more into your organs to support it. I don't know much about it though, I'm just kind of thinking about what might be happening.
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My former nurse told me about it with the same reason you have mentioned, that the blood goes to the digestive tract.
I haven't put much thought about it because for me the added sodium, blood sugars, plus the fluids from the food and drink that I will intake would give added volume to the blood and thus would raise the blood pressure but that wasn't the case as my BP always goes down.
So now I thank God for that discovery which took 18 years for me to experience for myself.
I am just thankful now that from now on I will have no more worry about my BP to ever crashing again @lightsplasher :)
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I found some information on it @cryptopie.
It says, "When a person eats, their body redirects blood to the digestive tract to aid with digestion. This causes a temporary decrease in blood pressure elsewhere in the body.
To compensate, blood vessels outside of the digestive tract constrict, causing the heart to beat faster and more forcefully."
This is why your body has such a hard time during dialysis when you eat.
Don't eat during dialysis.
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