Hi Southern Bell,
I wish that PLEX work as well for you as they are working for me .
I'm presently on a once-a-month exchange schedule and never had any problem with that treatment. They always used my elbow veins (excellent ones, they say...) and so I was able to avoid the ports...
The exchanges are conducted full speed and for my weight (80 kg), 4 liters of plasma are centrifuged in 80 minutes, preparation, rinsing and vein coagulation take about 5 minutes, so that the whole process is completed in about 1h45.
Be sure to take a good meal before your exchange and report to the personel any strange feeling in your mouth, lips or tong, it is a sign of lack of calcium and they should increase the calcium injection rate. Also, if you abnormaly yawn, it is a sign of lack of glucose.
Good luck to you!
Maurice.