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CTyankee

(63,903 posts) Mon Mar 6, 2017, 11:20 AM Mar 2017

I'm salting my food again.

My low sodium condition is now so bad that I'm buying salted food and salting things I haven't done in many years (since I was diagnosed with hypertension long ago). This is ridiculous. I spent 3 days in the hospital a couple of weeks ago getting saline intravenously. It didn't work on my test number.

Calling my doctor now. I don't know what he's going to tell me next. I don't have an appt. with an endocrinologist until March 21st.

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I'm salting my food again. (Original Post) CTyankee Mar 2017 OP

Reading what Mayo has on low sodium cleared up why you might see an endo. TexasProgresive Mar 2017 #1

I persisted in trying to get an earlier appt. and they had a cancellation! CTyankee Mar 2017 #4

I hope you get to the bottom of it. TexasProgresive Mar 2017 #5

and he'll know how to treat it... CTyankee Mar 2017 #6

My immediate thought is Addisons. Yes get thee to an endocrinologist hlthe2b Mar 2017 #2

Thanks. It's very unpleasant, unfortunately. CTyankee Mar 2017 #3

TexasProgresive

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1. Reading what Mayo has on low sodium cleared up why you might see an endo.

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Mon Mar 6, 2017, 11:28 AM

Mar 2017

I hope you find the root cause and return to glowing health. My mother had low sodium cause here problems. She suffered from congestive heart failure and was on an extremely low sodium diet. Here's the link to Mayo:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/basics/causes/con-20031445