Should I Be Going For Kidney Dialysis Soon?

First of all this should have been discussed with your nephrologist. Your potassium level is to high this can cause you to have chest pains and as serum K builds in the body you can eventually have heart damage. Second, you can have a temporary catheter inserted and do a could rounds of hemodialysis while a peritoneal dialysis catheter is inserted and heals. You need fluid to be removed if you are retaining fluid or feeling short of breath. Dialysis brings life to people, it is a lifestyle modification not a curse. You can do home dialysis for 2 hours every night, while your watching a tv show you can undergo HD at your house. Peritoneal dialysis will take just as much time hooking up the dialysate bath and draining the fluid. Catheters get infected so you need to be diligent about cleanliness and sterility. Sounds like you need HD to pull the serum K, nitrates, BUN and waste products off that your kidneys can no longer filter out. Those molecules are to large for your kidneys to filter and therefore you need an artificial filter to remove the waste products. Go to Davita.com there is a lot of information for you to help you with your dialysis decisions and which route will be appropriate for you to take initially. Don;t look at hemodialysis as a burden, inconvience or hassle, as I said before it brings life to those who otherwise would die from the waste product buildup.