What to Expect Once Dialysis Is Stopped

Dialysis is lifesaving when one suffers from Renal Failure or ESRD (End-stage Renal Disease). However, receive or not is all one’s own call. If somebody refuses or decides to withdraw dialysis, then what to expect once dialysis is stopped?

Without dialysis death will occur shortly after you get ESRD or withdraw from the treatment. This is mostly because toxins build up in the blood causing uremia. A series of physical and emotional changes occur as uremia develops. This is your own way to prepare. In most cases of Renal Failure, patients passed away all peaceful and pain-free, which is a great relief for their families.

Understanding the certain symptoms and changes around the corner helps patients’ friends, family and patients themselves to deal with the situation better. A series of physical and emotional changes can be:

▪ Loss of appetite

Same things happen as one’s illness condition progresses to CRF or CKD stage 4 (same thing with different names). Maybe you have already lived with it or maybe it’s new to you. Anyway, it probably will happen once your dialysis is withdrawn.

▪ Visions of people who no longer or don’t exist at all

This is probably caused by the buildup of toxins or metabolic products in your body affecting your nervous system, and then the vision appears.

▪ Don’t remember people you are familiar with, such as friends, families and even yourself.

It develops as a result of toxins affecting nervous system. As you read such a message, you may feel like heartbreaking or something. I know this is hard for you, but we suppose to support and respect his or her decision, don’t we?

▪ Changes in breathing and skin.

Changes in breathing signals decreased circulation in the internal organs, other reason may explain this change is the accumulated toxins affect other organs, for instance, heart and lung leading to the failure of other organs.

They may experience itching skin, desquamation and color changes. All those changes result from toxins accumulating in the body.