Symptoms you may experience

Symptoms you may experience:

• Retention of fluid causing breathless and swelling
• Tiredness
• Headaches
• Poor memory and concentration
• Irritability
• Sleep disturbances
• Feeling washed out
• Itchness
• Nausea and loss appetite
• Weight loss
• Altered sexual function

Dialysis is started when you no longer feel well enough to live your usual life, have excess fluid swelling, or if any of your blood results show levels of wastes that are becoming dangerous to your health.