I'm sorry you were in hospital recently with the low blood sodium. My levels also corrected too quickly when I was hospitalised and I was given desmopressin too to reverse that situation.I was also in the hospital for hyponatremia recently but mine had to do with my teeth causing me to be unable to keep food and my diy electrolytes down for two days.
I'd been in the ER before though for the same thing two other times.
This time, I figured since the situation was worsening and I'd had this before that I needed to go to the ER fast. By the time I got there it was down to 120. I was thinking they would just give me saline IV for a couple hours and send me home but they said when it's that low they can't go quickly or it can cause problems with the brain somehow.
Still they started me out with the saline anyway but it worked too fast. 120 jumped to 129.
They decide to give me a Desmopressin injection which also dropped it back down. Yikes. I wish they would have foregone the Desmopressin. They had switched me to D5W (dextrose solution that is sodium free). I wish they had stuck with that because the Desmopressin even made it difficult to urinate when I came back home in spite of them also putting me on Lasix for the two days in between. That Desmopressin, at least as an injection, is a scary medicine.
A salt pill was the thing that finally got me to where they could release me. It was a lovely salt pill too and even gave me a tiny bump in energy. Hurray.
So now I have a huge bottle of them...300 tablets (minus a few)...sitting on my countertop. I know they don't have the glucose but they're oh so easy to take and won't bathe my teeth with sugar right now since I still need to get the teeth fixed.
Also I wanted to mention like you indicated how paradoxical the thirst thing is. Our bodies are crying out for sodium but for some reason send a signal for more water instead which just makes the situation worse.
The first time I ended up in the ER was for that. I was so thirsty that I drank 3 (12 ounce) glasses of water all in a row after not eating much salt for a few days.
(I also got the worst case of hiccups I ever had too. Since then, I figured out that hiccups are very often related to too much or too little sodium--some kind of electrolyte shift anyways.)
Sadly, there was a women who died recently for water intoxication and as I was reading the article I was mentally saying to doctors involved, "Why didn't you question the paradoxically cravings? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/...-lethal-mistake-death-35-year-old-mother.html
Hopefully with your book, more doctors will start to.
what medicine do you take?I do alot chinese traditional medicine
what medicine do you take?
why do you ice your throat when you have a cold? isn’t it better to apply heat instead?
Are you in UK may I ask? And where is your herbalist? I reckon I must have seen 4 or 5 herbalists over the years without any real success.oh, I take a complicated customized mix of herbs prepared by an expert. There are around 37 in my basic formula. Another four I take for digestion.
cold feels good, heat does not. I apply heat alot to my neck, and to muscles etc, but don't drink hot drinks much.
I don't really drink the cold beverage, I sip on it. As cold in the stomach interferes with digestion.
jsyk cold lowers local immunity so you’re probably making yourself worse by drinking cold beverages. you might be better off using local anesthetic sprays or lozenges instead of icecold feels good, heat does not. I apply heat alot to my neck, and to muscles etc, but don't drink hot drinks much.
I don't really drink the cold beverage, I sip on it.
Are you in UK may I ask? And where is your herbalist?
There was a study (mentioned in chapter two in my book) which suggested hypovolemia as one of big reasons for 35% drop in vo2 max in ME. It was by Farquhar (blood volume and it’s relation to peak O2 consumption and physical activity in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome). I’m sure there are loads of reasons for VO2 max drop but heart not having enough blood to work with has to be one of them.I wonder if hypovolemia levels have ever been tested in ME/CFS patients after an exercise challenge. In other words, could it be one of the reasons for the common delay of Post-Exertional Malaise after exercise.
Well, mention the RAA axis suppression in ME as a possible cause of the solute loss. It is probably worth going through their standard diagnostic procedures to make sure nothing else is causing the salt loss but if, at the end of it all, the best they can think of is psychogenic polydipsia, I'd put my foot down if I were you and give them a copy of my book!I'm taking salt pills but still cannot keep my sodium levels up. Latest test still showing low even though I took a salt pill even a couple hours before that test.
I think my doctor will send me to a nephrologist now. I'm concerned they may say I have Polydipsia but my urine ph shows that I'm losing the salt because it was at the highest point of the ph range. Not high enough to red flag but still very high.
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Yes, a lot have diabetes insipidus they need daily Vasopressin, others I think could be Nutcracker Syndrome they need the proper gold standard tests done like orthostatic proteinuria urine test called (ACR)Albumin Creatinine Ratio urine tests one in 8 hours supine, then the other during the day.Drinking 8 till 20 liters water a day can be deadly. It is very dangerous. It also lower you natrium levels and can causes a heart rhythm disorder. Drinking al lot can also be caused by diabetes isipidus.
If you had a blocked Artery or Vein of course one would have low blood volume. Ron Davis test they are trying to develop is based on blood going through veins issues it does not have to be thick or clotted blood its likely narrowing of the veins.