Any helpful tricks when doing CAPD?

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Hi.
I’m new to CAPD.

Do you guys have any helpful tricks that makes your life with CAPD easier?

  • Mike
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I don’t think there is such a thing as ‘helpful hints for CAPD’. I have been doing CAPD for nine months and I think the best thing to do is to follow the ‘rules’ very carefully. I have wondered if I have any helpful hints and the only thing I can think of is to allow yourself one day a week where you don’t think ‘protein, protein, protein’. The constant shoving down my throat of protein makes me feel stodgy and flat, so I have one day off every week.

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I do agree with the suggestion suggested above. That there is no such thing as ‘helpful hints for CAPD’. It’s all upto us how we treat it.