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[Gus]

@Pierre

I think more and longer dialysis is better, but I think there might be some limits we don’t know about. For example, I’m not sure my body could tolerate much more than 2 hours a day at the usual blood pump speeds. Now, on nocturnal, I do 7 hours, but it’s important to note that it runs much slower.

Pierre

But, do you have to eat alot more now? You really have to eat alot more to keep nurtition right…

For example, on short-daily you eat less than Nocturnal right? Remember when you did short-daily? You ate less right? Now that your on Nocturnal you tend to eat more and weigh more no?

[Pierre]

I’m not sure I would say I eat more on nocturnal. There’s only so much I can eat in a day. but I do try to go heavy on the phosphorus (in the sense that I don’t hesitate one bit to eat lots of high phosphorus foods). I don’t think I could eat much more than I do. My albumin is already higher than it was on thrice-weekly hemo, and it’s well within the normal range. I do eat more than when I was on conventional hemo, though.
Pierre