Why does a person feel so tired and worn out after they received a dialysis treatment?

Answer:
The blood is drained from the body and this includes blood vessels supplying blood to the muscles. When the blood is removed from the muscles, they don't recieve oxygen and therefore have to use anaerobic methods to contract by making ATP. Lactic acid is a by product of this anaerobic metabolism and when lactic acid is present in the muscles, they become sore and your brain precieves this as being "tired". As blood is restored to the muscles, higher concentrations of oxygen provide the means for the mitochondria of muscle cells to produce higher amounts of ATP through the krebs cycle. Which eventually allows the removal of the lactic acid(which is the actual pain/tiredness).

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Having been hooked up to a machine for several hours, sat doing nothing and having all your blood withdrawn and then returned, what do you expect?

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In medicine, dialysis is a type of renal replacement therapy which is used to provide an artificial replacement for lost kidney function due to renal failure. It is a life support treatment and does not treat any kidney diseases. Dialysis may be used for very sick patients who have suddenly lost their kidney function (acute renal failure) or for quite stable patients who have permanently lost their kidney function (end stage renal failure). When healthy, the kidneys remove waste products (for example potassium, acid and urea) from the blood and also remove excess fluid in the form of urine. Dialysis treatments have to duplicate both of these functions as dialysis (waste removal) and ultrafiltration (fluid removal).You may have some discomfort when the needles are put into your fistula or graft, but most patients have no other problems. The dialysis treatment itself is painless. However, some patients may have a drop in their blood pressure. If this happens, you may feel sick to your stomach, feel tired, vomit, have a headache or cramps. With frequent treatments, those problems usually go away.

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I have been doing dialysis for 3 years so far. This is my third time on dialysis. I have had 2 failed transplants.Dialysis is a life-sustaining therapy and without it I would be dead within a week. Dialysis replaces my kidneys (I have none). It removes all the poisons or waste products that build up in my body (potassium, sodium, phosphorus, etc) as well as excess fluid.Many people think that because we just sit there and have our blood cleaned we have no business being tired afterwards. Well think of it this way, during the time we are sitting there ALL of our blood is being removed, cleaned and returned. During that time, we are also having excess fluid removed that we accumulated on our days off. As a result, our blood pressures drop and they can drop excessively. When that happens we can suffer painful muscle spasms, vomiting, headaches, burning in the pits of our stomachs or we could lose consciousness.Also, a lot of dialysis patients are anemic or severely anemicSo, if you combine all those factors, it's no wonder we are tired and worn out after a treatment.Alicia - These symptoms don't always go away with frequent treatments. I do dialysis 3 times a week and every treatment brings another side effect. The most common being a drop in blood pressure.

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because your body has gone Thur a long and intense treatment. i would feel like sleeping all day after my treatments. just think that you just had all your blood taken out and cleaned and put back into you it is rough on you physical and mentally

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