Well, so the day the PD nurse came to visit me at home to guide me through all this stuff the first time. I was all excited and nervous, and he tried to make things easier. By the way, he is a very nice guy, and all the time from the catheter inserting and then twice per week training washing in the hospital he always called me every day and asked how it's going.
Unfortunately, it didn't go well. Standard cycler (APD Machine) cycles are the first Initial drain, then four cycles Fill - Dwell - Drain. It in my case has to take exactly 8 hours with 10 liters of dialysis solution going through. Your time and solution amount can differ, of course.
When we connect all bags, claps and connectors and turn the machine on i felt unbearable pain. It was like someone insert red hot stick and turn it around. We had to stop it and he decided to invite me next day to the hospital to try to find solution to this problem. The machine can be programmed and then your nurse or doctor send it via machine's modem online and program is changing.
If it will be impossible to continue peritoneal dialysis due to pain or other problems, only way would be changing to hemodialysis, that i of course didn't want at all. Next time i'll write about new program and one of problems people meet the most - initial drain pain.
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