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@@jotave49 Oh so you are unemployed or in education? Otherwise we pay a decent amount for "social services" in countries with public healthcare. Notice it's public healthcare, not free healthcare.
@@jotave49 You will pay for it the rest of you life, alot more than it would have cost. Nothing in life is free. You are just misled into thinking it was "free".
If a doctor ever said “I don’t want to bore you” when I am trying to understand what they are trying to do to treat me, that would be an immediate red flag that I am at a very bad doctor.
They can convey what they are doing to treat you without going into extreme medical and biological detail that most patients don’t understand and usually just end up more confused and anxious than before they asked. Or god forbid a doctor having to deal with a “I’m sorry but Gwyneth Paltrow said…” scenario. You as a patient might be in a minority of patients (like me) who is fairly literate in medical terminology and physiology and does like and can understand the extremely elaborate explanations. That is not most people. For a vast majority of people, it’d be much worse to go into more detail rather than keeping it short, concise and simple.
I saw my doctor just the other day and she started explaining some medical concepts to me then stopped and said something like "Wait, I probably should've asked before I started with the nerd talk And I was so happy to ask her to keep going. Yes, I very much would like to know exactly what my condition is and exactly what the cause is and how I can best treat it. Thank you for respecting me enough not to treat me like an idiot.
And none of them will know anything the last one did. So you have to keep track of the labs ordered yourself so you can tell the next one what's already in the lab being processed
In real life you blow up like a balloon retaining water. Per blood it effects your breathing. Your at high risk of heart attack. My mum is in hospital right now with this. Then they do the bare minimum and let the the person die. That’s how the nhs is doing it right now. She’s been there nearly 3 weeks
The best doctors are the ones who recognize that their patients are adult human beings and not toddlers to talk down to. I have low sodium, the rural doctor of the southern town I had just moved too told me to keep chips in my car because it'd be cheaper than anything he'd prescribe.
This is true but on the other hand, a lot of adults (most) are fucking stupid when it comes to modern sciences. They can teach you taxes, mechanics, maybe even anatomy etc. but they don't get a certain portion it seems.
My mom had a recent emerge visit after a bad fall (mobility issues) and turned out she wasn’t always just falling, but fainting from low sodium… they sent here home with “eat more salt” and she has been great ever since. It really is that simple lmao
No it's not. That's why athletes have Gatorade and Pocari sweat instead of just salt water. There are many different salts and minerals lost that need to be replaced.
@@yoongs3878 When it's only sodium that is low and not the other electrolytes, then yes, it really is that simple: consume more sodium. If the other electrolytes, such as magnesium, calcium, and potassium, are low, as well, which was not mentioned in this video, those will need to be replenished, too. If all the electrolytes are low, the patient may be over-hydrated, and restricting water intake may be warranted. It becomes more complicated in that case, and more blood parameters need to be considered, such as hematocrit, but this was not the case in this video (the patient was only low in sodium). If an underlying cause of low electrolytes is determined, such as in athletes who are frequently sweating out electrolytes, then that is also an easy fix: consume more sodium and other electrolytes. Gatorade is not a great choice, by the way, but there are some other options, such as the electrolyte supplement LMNT.
My cardiologist (we worked together and were close friends) used to salt my food before I ate it. People were always shocked and didn’t know what to say.
My grandma had low sodium when she went into the nursing home. This was also around the time she stopped eating McDonald's. We're pretty sure it was the only thing keeping her alive
LOL what was with the older generation and McDs... My mother wanted just a McDonald's burger for her Thanksgiving dinner when she was in the hospital dying from cancer. I get it from my Dad now... How about a McDs burger ! Haaa
I saw a comment once where someone’s grandmother lived 108yrs old & her sister 120yrs old - saying that they ate what they had most of their lives & what they wanted, even if they were told it wasn’t the healthiest choice- that their attitude, activity levels, and faith is what kept them thriving. My mother just passed a few weeks ago from cancer and her last meal request was a hamburger, but didn’t touch her hamburger from the hospital cafeteria- ended eating Funyuns instead.
@@lorireed8046 McD's foods taste indulgent. They're specifically balanced to activate happy hormones for most people, which can cause one to become addicted if one eats them enough (certain ratios of salt, savoriness, fats, carbs, etc in a magical ratio). And if you're suffering, you want any comfort you can get, even if that's comfort food. Plus, lots of cancer treatments can mess up your sense of taste (terrible chemical taste in their mouths, or outright narrowing to even completely losing their sense of taste)... and/or the treatments (or cancer itself) can make you very nauseous & kill your appetite. So sufferers might end up, in the first case, overeating in a desperate attempt to satisfy their cravings but unable to find anything that will, or only wanting to eat the few foods they can still taste... or in the latter or combined case, barely eating at all & wasting away. Only feeling able to stomach very specific foods that are either very bland & gentle, or extremely appetizing, with strong enough of specific flavors to still work decently on their limited taste buds. Related: My dad lost a lot of his sense of taste when he got older, & ended up so desperate & frustrated at not being able to enjoy hardly any foods (which sucked because he suffered so many painful debilitating health conditions, & the comfort of delicious food was one of the few things keeping him going). So he ended up completely changing his meal preferences to extremely savory, salty, & spicy foods, because at least they had SOME semblance of flavor. ((And related to THAT, I'M also suffering multiple agonizing & distressing conditions, & extremely long story short, being at a constant 7-9 on the pain scale since 2001 (age 18-40), it's hard to care about anything anymore. And due to weight problems on top of that, I'm on an extremely restricted diet now, & that deprivation of one of the few things that could sometimes make me forget the pain just for a little while, that could sometimes make it feel ok to be alive... feels like it's killing me more than all the rest of my failing body systems.)) So... I get it. Let people who are suffering enjoy some dang comfort food once in a while, if they can.
I would donate blood on a semi-regular basis for many years, but with the Pandemic I stopped donating for two years. We’ll, my hemoglobin was getting rather high so I asked my doctor what the treatment is. He said “wellll, a bloodletting” ! I told him about my long pause of donating so he said I should do a donation and see him again. Problem solved.
That probably happens because you aren’t supposed to have your blood sucked out of you and placed into other people. It’s unnatural and your body doesn’t like it.
I was told that I "couldn't have dislocated my knee cause I wasn't screaming and crying" then it turns out my knee was dislocated. Interesting medical criteria for that diagnosis.
@@ThePokeMusicLover one time I was in hysterics cause (as it turns out) I had an obstructed kidney stone. I didn’t know that at the time but I couldn’t walk I could hardly breathe cause of the agony. The emergency room I went to declared I was faking it and drug seeking and kicked me out. I had to go to another ER to be taken seriously. The next day I was in surgery. So that doesn’t always work either.
My husband had the same thing! We also have “skratch labs” it’s just a powder form that you can pour in water with way less sugar than powder aid or Gatorade.
@@dwoktheraynejonsohn4849 haha glad you enjoyed it! In that instance the doctor had left the room while the machine was running, and when she got back told me I wasn’t allowed to take it off while it was getting a reading. Refused to believe I hadn’t, until she checked again while sitting there. Poor lady was shocked, and immediately asked me if I get dizzy a lot and wrote a prescription for Iron supplements. So yeah, my blood pressure was somewhere around “there is no arm in this cuff”
@@ryanstarkweather3625Actually they do mean blood pressure. I'm a Phlebotomist and when our patients get blood drawn some end up fainting. It's because our blood pressure drops drastically it is a term called Vasovagal Syncope. It's pretty common during blood draws. It even happens to people that don't really have a fear of needles or blood.
I almost fainted after injections (tbf I had gotten 32 of them 😅) and my neurologist brought me a piece of birthday cake and a cup of coffee from the break room bc that's all they had 😂 So there I was, sitting on the exam table crying and eating someone's cake. The nurses were so confused (I guess bc he brought it himself and didn't tell them). Best doctor ever.
@@Nicolehubbard88or they are hypoglycemic and their blood sugar levels were to low, that's why I carry mini mars bars in my bag , they work the quickest , specially together with some orangejus
@@youtuber7186 If it is just table salt, why does it need any testing? I would assume the answer is "because it's not literally just table salt" but you haven't said that. You've just mocked someone for saying something you disagree with and not elaborated.
Right great video to reinforce the fact that the medical industry is one big scam. Always offering costly band-aid solution instead of teaching preventive medicine and telling patients how to prevent things and change lifestyles.
Another fun fact, Lays have no mineral or nutritional value.. They use table salt and that's basically useless to the body without potassium and magnesium..
A professor of mine once told me "not everything is a pathology." Sometimes the answer is dead simple, and you're just making things way more complicated than they need to be by overthinking things.
Any health care system operated as a business couldn’t go towards easy inexpensive solutions first… that’d be counterproductive for their goal to make money. (I’m talking in general, not necessarily in this present scenario.)
With POTS literally the treatment is to increase sodium intake so if I start feeling faint I will literally just do what I call a shot of straight salt and it helps everytime. I've decided to save myself the ER trip and just inhale pure salt instead of dealing with incompetent medical professionals, which vast majority of my doctors have been for chronic illness at least.
Doctors really do act like detectives sometimes, they see the most simple, straight-forward solution and think “nah, that’s what they want me to think, it’s gotta be more complicated than that”
Hey man when a malpractice lawsuit can come down on your head for it they prefer to work backwards in hopes they address more serious issues first. Which yeah, it definitely over-complicates a whole lotta shiz.
Yeah I saw a couple of these back then I thought the formula was going to be used here again but it was just a doctor trying to keep up with appearances sounding smart and then getting caught
After years of passing out and being dizzy, the dr kept sending me home like I was crazy. My child’s pediatrician noticed I was off and suggested a salty snack when I feel like that. It works! When I have a really bad episode, I’ll sleep with a salt shaker so I can get out of bed. My dr just wants to put me on an antidepressant.
@citrus4971 you’re right, it does… my primary says, let’s not self diagnose and try antidepressant’s first. Also, I’m not pregnant, just to rule out immaculate conception…
hi i literally have the same issue and salt helps me the same way. please see some other doctors for pots. you can try antidepressants but depression doesn’t make you dizzy and salt doesn’t fix depression symptoms. most primary care doctors do not know anything abt pots. you usually need a referral to someone else. unfortunately i haven’t made that step bc im “too young”
@@ticcitoasty that’s good advice. I’d rather not be on antidepressants and you’re right, that’s probably not the problem. Dr’s seem to turn to mental problems if they don’t know what’s going on. I also had been told in my 20’s and 30’s that I was “young and healthy….” Which is kinda true but writing off young women isn’t fair. I’m in my 40’s now and now my primary writes everything off as peri menopause.
YES exactly, all of those were like the most complicated way to least for how to get a patient less salt-this whole video was so confusing to me tho lmao I have a condition that makes it necessary for me to take in more salt and I’ve never a) had anyone tell me to drink LESS water to bring my sodium level UP (you have to drink more water AND salt, your body uses one to hold onto the other by making a saline solution and if you just add more salt or more water alone it won’t mix right, probably also why you feel dehydrated even though you’re drinking that 40 oz water bottle twice a day-), or b) not recommend salt sticks and Liquid IV first, they’re cheaper for everyone lmao, but that’s just my experience ig???? yall be gettin told you shouldn’t take more salt to have more salt?????
@@metalhd7277 I know you said some salt would fix this, but you have no credentials. We needed to ask 30 departments first and run up your tab before we gave you any sodium.
This is why i stick with a doctor when they say stuff like "you may just need to up your intake, try to increase by this much and we'll check back in in a week to see if things have improved." You don't want someone just brushing you off telling you to eat some chips and leaving you but you also don't want someone who refuses the simple options until last either.
This pretty much sums up healthcare for the past three years. I say that as a healthcare worker. Only they all went against what they were taught and actually believed that an experimental jab was safe and effective. I'm seriously sick and tired of trying to win the trust of patients after so many doctors have proven to be complete imbeciles.
Idk about you but if my dr is trusted and he looks at me and goes “just eat more of this and you should be fine. If your symptoms don’t get better, come back.” Imma easily not complain. That’s not brushing me off- that’s trying to see if it’s a real issue or just my poor ability to take care of myself, people might not like to realize that but that’s the truth. Most issues don’t need countless tests and over things. That said I don’t think we are really disagreeing.
@@IhiriTasogare ...and I'm denied basic tests... wohaaa... 'we don't need countless tests', you really think you live in a paradise, right!?, or maybe you're really healthy.. ask me, someone with CFS, severe one..🤨
I had a doctor tell me to eat a bag of potato chips and drink a few glasses of water when I was dizzy as a teen. The best doctor cause she was so right
Increasing sodium is the only thing that helps me and my 2 kids. Tried midodrine for a couple of years with no change. Started drinking drip drop or liquid iv and carrying salt tablets on us and now we manage just fine.
@@swagmassa6702 they report you to collections and it hits your credit report. Yeah you have to pay medical debt or it destroys your credit. My girlfriend is still fighting with the credit bureaus about a collections that is showing up from years ago that was paid.
I had this same issue. I had to go to a neurologist because my family and I were worried about an undiagnosed seizure issue. Spent the night at the ER, spinal taps, EEGs and spent 3 hours in the MRI machine only for them to not find anything, but my neurologist started me on seizure medication that solved the issue, but went to continue to go to the doctor and run tests, still nothing... Found out later that the only reason the seizure medication was helping was because the medication I was on was improving my sodium levels and helping me retain sodium. The entire issue was sodium related and the cure was potato chips! Haven't had any issues since then and living a happy, healthy life 😄
Yep….the chips have potassium & sodium. A family member of mine had seizures in her teens. She wasn’t eating that often which explains the seizures. Come to find out she suffered from low potassium and sodium most of her life and would get auroras and then seizures whenever she was low in both. She could tell when she was low in potassium because her heart rate would go from 68bpm up to 80 bpm and higher. She had to keep track daily to make sure she got close to 4,000mg of potassium and 1,500mg of sodium daily. If she didn’t keep track her levels would get super low and she would have a seizure.
Having to wait 12 hours is so true. The last time I was in the hospital I saw a nurse right as I got in and then had to watch like 4 hallmark Christmas movies before someone else came to take care of me.
I wish I could trust "health care professionals" but so many are caught up in their own "importance " that they are insulted when you ask a question . How come everything I took 20 years ago for the same condition is now considered bad and taken off the market but this shiny new super expensive drug is much better . Some I can understand but all of them ? Will I grow a third eye because I took them for twenty years .Blind faith is difficult and reserved for our Lord everyone else I have questions .
@@ramblingrose6967 Medicine, like many other scientific fields is very dogmatic in the sense that what a journal tells you to do, you do it. Straying from the norm is frowned upon and being seen as unconventional is grounds to lose one's position in the field. It has been this way for centuries. For example, when soap first appeared in wound treatment, it was scoffed at and spoken out against. Despite it's glaring benefit to disinfectant properties and long-term wound management. Today it is standard practice to disinfect and thoroughly clean everything before surgery. Doctors, are after all, Human. No different than you or I and sometimes worse (sometimes better); but the industry as a whole is flawed like any other. Unfortunately.
"Oh, I see you have a heart arrhythmia-- No big deal, but we'd like to admit you until it's resolved. So we're putting you on a strict no sodium diet." "But-- My sodium levels are normal." "It's standard procedure." Two days later, I check out of the hospital with dangerously low levels of sodium, because even though they've been pumping me full of IV fluids, and checking my blood daily, NO ONE NOTICED. Half a bag of potato chips later, I felt much better.
Use accent on your food tastes great and might fix a possible sodium issue. But accent has potassium which might be the real issue but the hospital cannot charge you for it 😂
@@mahoganydoormadmindstories ... and you missed the point too. The human body needs sodium. If my levels are in the "good" range, restricting me from having sodium can actually be harmful to my health. Modern medicine is by rote, rather than by actually paying attention to individual patients.
@@johngelnaw1243 you also need potassium. BTW, I went through a similar issue with low levels but the doctors didn't want to tell me which one was low, sodium or potassium because if one is out of sync then both need to be fixed. Potato chips is the worse way to bring your levels back in order. Just add sea salt and accent with a little baking soda and a smidge of epsom salt to a liter of water and drink it throughout the day. Levels will balance out.
I have had sodium level issues almost 20 years. Quickest way to check is to lick some salt. When your levels are low the salt will actually taste sweeter than it should. Saltine crackers and Gatorade work in a pinch.
That is most certainly not the best way to check your sodium levels. It's the equivalent of checking for a fever by putting your hand against someone's forehead. The better way is a thermometer (or metaphorically here, a blood test).
LITERALLY. I recently went to the ER with asthma symptoms and they kept trying to tell me it was stomach issues. I insisted it was my chest. After being there for 7 hours, bloodwork, x-ray, and ultrasounds they gave me an inhaler and I felt better immediately. Later I was officially diagnosed with asthma
For years i kept saying i still felt like i couldn't breathe even with my asthma medication. Doctors had duagnosed me with PTSD and generalized anxiety disorder but wouldn't try any meds on me. After about 25 years of not breathing well, they put me on Zoloft for other reasons and suddenly I can breathe properly (except on high anxiety days, and even then it's better than pre-Zoloft). Turns out anxiety can really mess up your ability to get a breath.
Several times I went to an ER or urgent care facility with symptoms of GERD-noted in my medical records. Apparently, myocardial infarctions have similar symptoms. So the doctors examine me and order tests necessary to diagnose heart issues before they can treat the heartburn. Once given a dose of heartburn medicine, relief is immediate. However, I am grateful the doctors assure my heart is ok before treating a much less severe condition.
They did this with my grandma's stroke. It was so obviously a stroke that you wouldn't need to have a nursing license or any other kind of medical license to spot that. Yet they're wasted hours spent ruling out UTI and other silly things. by the time they were like oh yeah she's having a stroke, a couple hours had gone by. 🤦♀️ was the same doctor that had diagnosed my mom's melanoma as ring worm.
Exactly. This is in fact what happened to my wife when they said she needed potassium. I suggested getting her that 50/50 (KCl/NaCl) "Lite Salt" you find at the grocery store for a couple of dollars, but the doctor said No, that that would be bad somehow. Eventualy they gave her potassium pills, consisting of potassium chloride (the same KCl that's in Lite Salt). The difference of course was that they could charge us thousands of dollars. I hate them..
My favorite doctor visit is when they told me my neck wasn’t broken since I was moving around. Got an X-ray, it was broken. They apologized and felt really bad 😂
I've had the opposite but with my foot, where is was so swollen, discolored, and awkward looking that the doctor immediately said they thought it was broke. I said it wasn't since I could still move it. Three x-ray sessions later, it definitely was not broken. They still put a cast on it because they didn't trust me not to walk on it.
They did the same shit to me years ago and laughed about the injury and said my neck was sprained. A few months later, I went in for a fractured wrist, doc knows I won't come back for another test and checks my neck while I'm there and sees remodeling on two of my vertebrae. He wasn't happy with the previous doctors.
Nurse checked my temp after chatting with me when I cam in. She looked it, then at me, then at it and me again and said. "how am I talking with you, you have 40,6 C 105,1F. Me "I am just happy to be home after 3 flights and 11 hours and after working with this fever for a week." She " please lay down and wait for you lung x-ray."
I don’t know how prevalent of a thought it is for doctors to give lack of explanations, or don’t want to “bore” the patient with info (maybe because doctors are very busy or don’t think a patient can understand the explanation), But the doctors who made the effort for me to understand the “why” of decisions and to help me understand what is happening in a way that made me feel respected have by far been the most efficacious (I’m my experience) and impactful. Feeling like I was “on the team” was so important to me, and I think it’s part of good bedside manner
In my experience, almost no one cares about science. Also, in my experience, if you want a doctor to explain the science, just ask, and it will make their day. I'm in the process of applying for med school, so I have science qualifications needed to do that, and the number of times I have tried to explain something sciencey/medical to someone and they just didn't wanna know. It may well be different if it's coming from a doctor, but I don't know how you could get to being a doctor without having had a lifetime of trying to tell people about science/medical stuff, and them looking at you board, zoned out, and waiting for you to stop and talk about something else, so by the time you get to be a doctor, you've had it so often just assume that's how people will react that way and don't bother explaining the science behind it.
@@gracegaskell8068 There’s a difference between explaining something medical to someone that is not currently involved in that problem, and even if he is, the discussion won’t accompany the cure; and actually being there with the individual that’s gonna make you feel better, the patient is gonna listen and absorb every word even if not fully understood, the mere primitive visualisation of the mechanism of his health is the best placebo. Search new german medicine
@@gracegaskell8068 it doesn't even need to be explaining the "science" behind it, though. Like for GI problems, a doctor once prescribed me Sucralfate and Omeprazole. Ok, cool. But a patient-friendly explanation could be that the omeprazole will help lower stomach acid levels to prevent further irritation to my stomach, and the sucralfate will coat my stomach and help protect it from further damage from acid or other irritants. It doesn't step into the "why this works" but gives just enough info to help the patient understand better than "here, take this and let's see how you feel."
I have POTS and I randomly chug salt from my salt shaker all the time. It helps a bit Also just put salt on any random food you eat, if you're low on sodium salt somehow tastes good with every food
I had a patient who would get psychotic and aggressive when his sodium was low (we WERE in a psychiatric corrections facility). So we would put 3 packets of salt in some Gatorade and encouraged him to drink it. It calmed him right down. Of course they wanted ME to get him to drink it. We had a rapport. He liked me, I think because I knew he didn’t like people standing close to him so I would make the other patients back off from him in pill line. He was real quiet, but he would make eye contact and give me a nod. I mean, I knew he was a convicted murderer, NGBROI , but I figured it didn’t hurt me to give him some common courtesy. He actually stepped between me another violent patient and prevented me from getting hurt. Goes to show some common decency can save your life.
@@_jamm___3321 you could just...you know...look up what the term means, and yeah, if something came out of a fucking factory and wasn't intended to be put in human mouths, it's not necessarily germs I'm worried about. You don't know if the salt was contaminated with heavy metals, or if there's some synthetic binder or sealant involved, or if there's some kind of industrial tooling oil that's gonna give you the shits no matter what your imune system is, or some carcinogenic solvent involved, etc. So it's a bit less of an "eat dirt" situation and more of an "eat paint chips, they probably don't contain lead" situation. I'm really not interested in that stupidity, thank you.
@@dynamicworlds1 mettles are necessary for the body and oil is natural meaning not harmful. oh and what's that getting the shits from oil where the hell dose that logic come in because oil doesn't cause that. the "synthetic" binder is the glass itself because it hardens together. The only harmful thing about this is that you would have to break up the glass witch is sharp. So calm down and act like the adult you are.
Definitely tablets! As a pharmacy technician, I once popped one of these per a pharmacist’s recommendation. I spat it out amd I can confidently say that it was a VERY salty tablet…
just had a low sodium episode last night after a week of eating plants and sweating outside all day. got some taco bell from doordash cuz i was too dizzy to drive and it cured me
One of my meds causes night sweats so I am constantly low on sodium in the mornings. Some mornings I don't want to eat much so I just drink water with a bunch of salt in it lol
Try Indian black salt on your veggies. Available at any Indian grocery store. Smells like farts(but no worse than fish sauce) AND makes veggies extra yummy, more yummy than with just salt.
I walked out while waiting once simply because I had to call public transportation if I didn't want to get stuck. I was unable to drive with a broken fibula. I had gone to the walk in clinic after my morning appointment and 2:30 came I was like so long see you. Had me waiting just to tell me I had a hematoma. It was on the chest so I figured I might want to get the weird lump checked out
I had a low blood sugar in the hospital, I was actually excited thinking I was finally gonna be able to drink a juice or eat a pudding. The gave me a glucose IV drip 😭
Actually drinking sweets would be the first line of treatment if you weren't passed out/not that severe, like sweet tea. The fact that they give you glucose IV meaning its too low and drinking/eating sugar wont help
@@Vyansya it was only 70, I didn’t even know it was low until they took my blood sugar. I think they panicked because of how much insulin I was taking to stay alive.
TRUTH! I was in the hospital for 6 months and i went through that. the first thing they did was put me on a "SALT FREE" Diet! and sent me home with a huge bottle of...SALT TABLITS!
@Daniel Morton perhaps but the fact that doctors never explain what they're doing is infuriating. They get mad at for people for things without asking questions or explaining why. No wonder I never go.
I have a genetic condition where I don't retain the salt that I eat. I can 100% say that the way to up your sodium levels is to eat more damn salt. Just be sure to drink water along with it. In my experience I'll crave salt when I need it, and when I've had enough it becomes overpowering.
I've noticed when I camp in the desert, I feel a lot better if I pack some salty snacks and munch on a little every 1-2 bottles of water. Pickle spears, saltines, Spanish olives... Anything like that to get some electrolytes back in. Otherwise, I start feeling a bit off.
@@ExaltedDuck You should try out Liquid IV electrolyte packets. Small/lightweight, portable, non-perishable and mixes into water. (Cold water is best.) I spent all day outside for two months in our humid southern heat (misery) working on my landscaping. Previously, I couldn’t do anything outside in the summer. I’d drink 1 or 2 a day while also drinking plenty of water, creating shade when I could, taking breaks and eating regularly. I never got sick, like I typically do even just sitting outside. (I’m hot natured, warm when others are cold. I also sweat profusely. From infancy.)
@@ahe79 thanks for the tip. I'm the same way. Don't even need a jacket unless it's less than 40 F and windy. And when it's even just a little humid and hot I don't just sweat, I drench. 😄
Yeah I work in geris and we pretty much go thru this exact drama every time 🙄 (and it really is a drama cos you've got this poor person who doesn't understand why they're not being allowed to drink much and their family getting mad cos they're complaining about being thirsty all the time. Sigh)
@@weetzybat electrolytes effect muscle tissue, and a big muscle that we are concerned about is the heart. (Lytes do a lot more than just that but thats the simple/short answer).
You work on a tele unit? Awesome! I am a retired nurse and it's been a while but we did Chem-12's, on tele, step down and the unit (I think it's just called a CMP now). I do recall that Kayexalate was given if the K+ was too high as lowering it would also help to reestablish Na+ levels. Maybe I'm not recalling it correctly however, doctors really do things like that, yes.
I was told I was a hypochondriac for decades, too many different symptoms that don't go together. Finally, at age 50 I was diagnosed with Graves Disease and a genetic heart valve defect and all my symptoms made sense.
Graves’ disease? That’s curious. I was diagnosed with graves disease after blood test came back showing that everything was normal. Three months later I could hardly walk 3 feet without panting like I’d just ran a marathon. Lost 50 kg in 3 months… not sure how you lived with Graves’ disease most of your life. My doctor classified me a walking heart attack or stroke because I was so hyper metabolic…
Yah, I was considered a hypochondriac for 40yrs. Then my daughter at age 9 was sent to a geneticist due to being extremely hypermobile (something I've struggled with my entire life) and she was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Her Dr looks at my medical history and says "she clearly got this from you!" Now all of my medical anomalies make sense. *and I keep salt pills everywhere because we both have POTS and pass out if we don't salt load.
I have graves too. It’s in remission but when I had my first onset of symptoms the doctors didn’t know what it was cuz my symptoms were the exact opposite of what graves usually presents.
@@jessicasmarker7664 that's really interesting ... it seems to manifest in different ways in different people ... how long have you been in remission? and how did you GET into remission? :)
@@virtuallyme2518 they put me on the normal meds. Can’t remember what it was called it’s been so long. Ive been off the meds for almost 5 years. My journey was a weird one because I was told most people with any thyroid problems can get them corrected in a year or so with medication. My doctor started the first attempt to ween my thyroid off the meds, as they do, and my thyroid relapsed so we upped the dose again. They were concerned that I’d have to remove my thyroid completely. But I just told them as long as there are no risks to staying on the meds then we can do that. Because I’d have to be on meds for the rest of my life anyways if they took out my thyroid. There were risks to the meds but it had to do with white blood cell count, of which I never had a problem with. So eventually, as noted, I was able to ween to be completely off the meds after about 4/5 years.
😂 I was in this exact situation multiple times during a nephrology rotation… it’s amazing how some people’s sodium labs will continue trending the “wrong way” despite a half dozen treatments that would’ve been “foolproof” correction in almost anyone else 🤯
As a medical-based SLP I encourage my patients to research Redmond real salt/ Celtic sea salt. The most nutrient-based/dense supplement that most don’t utilize or heard of. My parents have control high blood pressure any more. I need to catch up with them by the way. 😊
Reminds me of when my blood pressure was super low when I was at school, but they didn't have salt there, only soy sauce. So I drank a bit of it, followed with water. People were horrified that I drank soy sauce like that and looked absolutely puzzled about how would I rather do that than call an ambulance.
I eat seasoning all the time since a kid. Drank half a bottle of worstersire sauce ive the last couple days alone. If it werent so expensive I'd drink bottles of sauces a day still.
I appreciate the fact he points out that medical professional can at times be somewhat condescending. I use to have a friend who was a nurse. She treated everyone else who wasn't in the medical field like an idiot. Problem tho she legit was a moron and I still don't know who tied her shoes for her in the morning.
There are so many nurses this way its sickening. Funny thing is i dropped out of nursing school and still know more than those nurses who act like geniuses. They usually have no knowledge and its like how did you graduate and get licensed? I dropped out and learned more than some it seems lmao.
I walk amd run around a lot in a warehouse for work. I don't like Gatorade and when I'm getting dehydrated and losing too many salts from all the sweating I litterally put like 4 salt packets into a few oz of water. I quickly feel so much better amd over time feel even more so. And when I drink just water I actually feel hydrated again. (For those unaware, why too much salt is dehydrating, salt is an electrolyte and not having enough means your body can't actually hydrate.) People think it's gross, which I guess it is, but it works and again, I don't like Gatorade.
You do know this is a mocked satirical and sarcastic scene sending us a message of what does happen in real life. Doctor and patient seem to be the same person
unfortunately their trust in their doctor lead to potentially more harm than good. medical field is not comparable considering a mistake can lead to death or injury
@@auragonzalez976 laughably, I literally went through similar. During another issue that required hospitalization, my sodium and magnesium were low. The source of low magnesium remains a mystery, as that's become chronic, despite adequate intake and ruling out certain medications, probably absorption related. The low sodium was secondary to low intake, as due to my hypertension, I restrict my sodium intake and only goose it up a bit in summer and I'll be out in the heat. Well, that and all results were going to be haywire, as I was in the middle of a thyroid storm. I've used that and similar gaffes that residents make as opportunities to improve doctor's education, as that's why they're residents and doctor and patient are best suited as a team. Physicians with many years of experience worry when I come in and start asking questions, as if I've not quite got a handle on it, it's gonna be complicated and likely to require consultations with specialists.
Yep, before my mom's cancer killed her, she was VERY low on sodium. We managed to bring it back up safely at home with a pretty consistent routine of gatorade and soup. managed to go from 100 to 125 in a week, doc was impressed. Ultimately didn't help her though. Folks, always get second and third opinions if your oncologist says you or a loved one is "cancer free".
As a dietitian, this is so true! There can be multiple etiologies for low sodium. Most often it's too much salt or too much fluid intake, but sometimes it can also be due to your kidneys not retaining sodium so you lose it in your urine or with diarrhea from poor absorption. Always important for your healthcare team to investigate the root cause before prescribing treatment! :)
As with most problems, you want to avoid going straight to addressing the symptoms and, as you say, instead look for the root cause. Otherwise you're just kicking the can down the road!
As if any medical professional I have ever been to has ever been remotely interested or willing to pursue an actual investigation into a complaint and not just treat the symptom, which is seldom done or with any consistency or accuracy anyway.
I once worked as a pharmacy tech at a nursing home and there were a couple residents on salt pills. They were literally straight up just square chunks of salt.
As a hospital nurse, hyponatremia has always confused me. Some improve with extra salt, others with IV saline, and others with fluid restrictions.. why they respond differently? I wish I knew. I dread trying to explain this phenomenon to patients and their families.
So there are 3 types of hyonatremia. Hypervolemic, isovolemic, and hypovolemic. The first one is due to fluid retention causing Na+ dilution - something that can happen in decompensated heart failure. The first step is usually fluid restriction. On the other end if it’s hypovolemic that person may need fluids or extra salt. The Skit above fails to mention that the patient’s serum osmalarity and urine osmalarity need to be checked in order to differentiate what kind of hyponatremia the patient has - that would save A LOT of time. This really the basics and it can get much more complicated. Hope this helps.
It has to do with their both their fluid status and their serum sodium. So even if their serum sodium is “normal” if they’re hypervolemic then it’ll appear low and vice versa
When I had gastroenteritis they didn't allow me to drink anything until they were done with tests. Took the hospital like 5 days to do all of them and every time I asked if I could drink water they told me no, so by the time they were done with the tests my kidneys were shot because they weren't getting enough liquid and I was significantly worse than when I went to hospital
I give them exactly 24 hours and then I'm out. Even if it means checking myself out . Last time I bothered going to the hospital they put me in an ER (11pm) room, and didn't get to me but, the nurse came in with some stupid drug and I refused it (pain killer drugs and not needed) @ 6am they were getting my paperwork done and told me they were sending me to another hospital when an ambulance was available. Hmm why? No response! I told the nurse I had my car there and could drive I don't need the ambulance. Dr. Was pissy but.. finally okayed me driving myself. Got the sealed paperwork and (stupid me) went to the other hospital where they INSTANTLY put me in a room. By 2 pm the ONLY 2 people I saw were the main doctor (to give me a stop smoking pamphlet and charge me $350 for that honor) and the cleaning lady. Now, I'm at 15 hours, my phone has died and I'm pissy. LOL. 18 hours they said I have a stupid cyst and will need to have surgery so, no eating or drinking for 24 hours from that point. Hmmm for a dang cyst?? Really??? I checked myself out and was fuming. NO surgery and NO "treatments" that hospital bill (between both hospitals) was $18,000 no joke and YES, that denied drug was on there AND the doctors fee that never DID any surgery. I fought that crap for 4 years. In the mean time I had to pay that stupid bill while it was in court. I will NEVER go back. I'll die in the streets first.
That could've killed ANYONE even if they came in healthy, let alone someone with a condition! Gah! 😱 Did you tell them how long you'd been without liquid as time wore on? You gotta speak up repeatedly; much of the staff don't keep thorough enough notes (or read them) between shifts, so the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. If they didn't at least give you I.V.s then that's REALLY messed up!
@@DavidCruickshank lol, that socialized Healthcare would have taken him weeks to even see a doctor, only to do the same shit but charge you via taxes. How's the tax rate in those countries, anyway?
In my experience, doctors are actually always happy when I show interest, and knowledge in scientific procedures. They have so far always taken an extra minute or two if I wanted to know more
@@sydneycharlot8422 hey I am CNA 😃 Imagine trying to feed the patient and instead of eating they want to tell you about hearing another patient singing at night... Or they refuse to eat hospital food and want delivery.
@@PrimordialNyx imagine being stuck in a hospital not being able to sleep and paying thousands possibly. Let me get my delivery (you are the type of person that gives yourself a bad rep)
@@mrliable9703 well when that doctor's orders are for the patient to not eat because some examination that needs to be done, or certain things are forbidden in their diet I believe it's reasonable to not feed them said stuff. Or in the case you have to feed the patients not only one but 20+ sometimes by yourself, and one patient is delaying, it'd be bad if this ended up with our patients losing weight or not being fed properly. So excusing yourself like that I believe it's a kind way to continue your work and tend other people who need your care as well. Also I assume you thought I was American since you mentioned 'paying thousands of dollars', while free healthcare exists.
I completely love you Doc!! Hey your the most honest Dr I have seen that doesnt have a problem laughing at all the things doctors do.😂 love your videos!
My dads sodium levels dropped so low he was hospitalized. So bad infact they put him on a ventilator. Turned out it was all to do with his thyroid. So yeah sometimes its not the obvious solution. Props to docs. Oh and my dads fine now 2 weeks on vent but they got his levels stable and his home now. :)
why wasn’t his low sodium noticed before it got bad enough for ventilation? or is it normal for him to be alone for 48+ hours without talking to anyone?
I'm glad my cardiologist didn't do this! She just straight up told me in like 5 minutes "Yeah you should eat more salt. You want chips? Cool, get some! Also, gatorade."
Sometimes it is as simple as that, other times there are dangerous underlying conditions. A doctor may ignore such cases if they always resorted to the simple solution. But starting with the simple solution and monitoring to see if any issue persists/arises is also a good option
This was me at the hospital a little while ago. The only thing was that I was waiting for around 8 hours to see one doctor, did a test on a treadmill and then some blood tests. Then told me to eat more and left. 😂
@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648Its not all rainbows. I've always been underweight and alot of my health issues regarding my heart issues, blood pressure, reproductive, etc were ignored when I asked for help to gain weight because I knew I was always sick when I dropped weight, I would gain had trouble keeping it on. Like I literally could actually tell you, that I had lost weight when I got sick and step on the scale and you would see that I did indeed drop. Most doctors would just smile and be like "There's nothing wrong with your weight., people would love to be at your weight. YOU'RE HEALTHY" " But I didn't feel healthy. I quite literally took all the weight lost literature and unhealthy dieting fads and flipped it to gain weight. I obsessively counted calories and over ate to keep weight on which didn't work well. And would binge eat when I saw the scale tip down. I ate fatty and high protein foods. I obsessively tried muscle building workouts instead of cardio. Because I didn't want to get violently sick. It took me until I was in my early twenties to hear a college professor suggest that I eat ice cream or yogurt every night or morning, I was desperate so I tried, and it steadied me but I didn't gain, then in my mid twenties the chronically ignored heart problem landed me in surgery. Then it was cardiology who FINALLY helped me get nutritional help to gain and keep weight. Docs ignored my brother's main problems and blamed it on his extra weight and to just lose it. Docs ignored problems because it was "Unlikely you have those problems because its mostly seen in over weight patients". and do nothing. Overall docs need to just stop looking at just weight and look at the whole patient. Cuz like honestly the whole eating disorder but to gain weight isn't event taken seriously by my current doctors. They think I'm making it up.
@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648not really sure what that implies if not the obvious. My advice is to eat more fruits in your diet and veggies. I know, sounds dumb but go watch Fat,Sick&Nearly dead documentary series for explanations. Also eating at specific times of the day really helped me with weight maintenance in addition to moving around more (that 30 mins/day thing is no joke after 3wks, I started dropping 5-10lbs a week and then reached my goal and had to maintain weight for specific health reasons. Drinking more water instead of anything else also by itself was worth 5lbs in a week before I even started my journey. I know it's not much and can literally be called water weight, but when you stop craving sugar and salt something switches inside and at least for me I started feeling better, which became the reason to keep going, not the weight loss. The hard part is not yoyoing after the journey ends.
Haha, I got told to get more sun, I was there for endometriosis pain. Never went back to that office again. I’m naturally pale and it was December in Connecticut.
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The most painful part of this is the twelve hour break between every patient update 😭👍
Your sodium count would not change within minutes. You have to give it time to see what effect each intervention had
Should be more like 24 hours
@@oshkrh I think they're referring to the fact that the patient has to be in the hospital for so long when the cure was simply salt pills.
@@stapedium this
On weekends it's 18
That doctor just wanted to keep the chips for himself!
Nah probably wanted the patient to rack up bills with unnecessary medication lmao
@@megamatthew75 i don’t think you understand the joke of this video
@@megamatthew75 uhm..... r u good with sarcasm ever? Go research about it like its your doctorate
@@jasonsteves734 keep it going
Doctor: Those are my chips, mom said I can have them when I’m done with 3 patients.
"Now that will be $600,000 because we exhausted every option but the one you offered first"
Bro american healthcare is messed up.
I had countless tests and a surgery last year and paid $0 for everything.
@@jotave49 Silly ferriner thinking Americans have healthcare.
@@jotave49 Oh so you are unemployed or in education?
Otherwise we pay a decent amount for "social services" in countries with public healthcare.
Notice it's public healthcare, not free healthcare.
are you living in a country were you have to pay for health care yourself?
@@jotave49 You will pay for it the rest of you life, alot more than it would have cost. Nothing in life is free. You are just misled into thinking it was "free".
If a doctor ever said “I don’t want to bore you” when I am trying to understand what they are trying to do to treat me, that would be an immediate red flag that I am at a very bad doctor.
They can convey what they are doing to treat you without going into extreme medical and biological detail that most patients don’t understand and usually just end up more confused and anxious than before they asked. Or god forbid a doctor having to deal with a “I’m sorry but Gwyneth Paltrow said…” scenario.
You as a patient might be in a minority of patients (like me) who is fairly literate in medical terminology and physiology and does like and can understand the extremely elaborate explanations. That is not most people. For a vast majority of people, it’d be much worse to go into more detail rather than keeping it short, concise and simple.
If they can't explain it simply, they don't really understand it.
I just thought that was for the benifit of the viewer who intended to watch a short.
If you can’t explain it to a 5 year old you don’t really know what you’re doing
I saw my doctor just the other day and she started explaining some medical concepts to me then stopped and said something like "Wait, I probably should've asked before I started with the nerd talk
And I was so happy to ask her to keep going. Yes, I very much would like to know exactly what my condition is and exactly what the cause is and how I can best treat it. Thank you for respecting me enough not to treat me like an idiot.
I love how accurate the “lemme go talk to the kidney doctors” *12 hours later* is
In reality it's just a skype/MS teams call with someone google searching.
This is 80% of the visits at a doctor office appointment.. Just saying, lol.
I mean specialist vs a generalist.
Yep. 😂
Every cut is 12 hrs later
@@Nighterlevit's actually called being indoctrinated.
Accurate, except in real life it’d be a different doctor every 12 hours.
...and they would work harder to find an out-of-network consult than on your differential.
And you'd be hit with a $12,000 bill.
Ding ding ding!
And none of them will know anything the last one did. So you have to keep track of the labs ordered yourself so you can tell the next one what's already in the lab being processed
In real life you blow up like a balloon retaining water. Per blood it effects your breathing. Your at high risk of heart attack.
My mum is in hospital right now with this.
Then they do the bare minimum and let the the person die. That’s how the nhs is doing it right now. She’s been there nearly 3 weeks
The best doctors are the ones who recognize that their patients are adult human beings and not toddlers to talk down to. I have low sodium, the rural doctor of the southern town I had just moved too told me to keep chips in my car because it'd be cheaper than anything he'd prescribe.
@@vaakdemandante8772 why except peanuts?
Tell that to my psych nurse today
This is true but on the other hand, a lot of adults (most) are fucking stupid when it comes to modern sciences. They can teach you taxes, mechanics, maybe even anatomy etc. but they don't get a certain portion it seems.
@@vaakdemandante8772 nuts are also a common allergen and have just as many health risks. let people do what's best for them.
@@yippeeflowers what kind of health risk do nuts have? Beyond allergies, thats only a problem for a very small number of people
My mom had a recent emerge visit after a bad fall (mobility issues) and turned out she wasn’t always just falling, but fainting from low sodium… they sent here home with “eat more salt” and she has been great ever since. It really is that simple lmao
I was expecting him to explain the biology I don't believe it's this simple
"it really is that simple" *sometimes
No it's not. That's why athletes have Gatorade and Pocari sweat instead of just salt water. There are many different salts and minerals lost that need to be replaced.
Google: hyponatremia algorithm
@@yoongs3878 When it's only sodium that is low and not the other electrolytes, then yes, it really is that simple: consume more sodium. If the other electrolytes, such as magnesium, calcium, and potassium, are low, as well, which was not mentioned in this video, those will need to be replenished, too. If all the electrolytes are low, the patient may be over-hydrated, and restricting water intake may be warranted. It becomes more complicated in that case, and more blood parameters need to be considered, such as hematocrit, but this was not the case in this video (the patient was only low in sodium).
If an underlying cause of low electrolytes is determined, such as in athletes who are frequently sweating out electrolytes, then that is also an easy fix: consume more sodium and other electrolytes. Gatorade is not a great choice, by the way, but there are some other options, such as the electrolyte supplement LMNT.
my cardiologist literally gave me a bag of chips and watched my tachycardia calm down.
I give my mom popcorn when her BP drops really low. That and lemonade. It starts to work within 1/2 an hour. Two hours later, it's back to normal.
My cardiologist (we worked together and were close friends) used to salt my food before I ate it.
People were always shocked and didn’t know what to say.
My step grandmother was "prescribed" a snack sized bag of potato chips per day
$450 mini bag of chips
My doctor told me to go to McDonald’s when the tachy-partya gets wack
My grandma had low sodium when she went into the nursing home. This was also around the time she stopped eating McDonald's. We're pretty sure it was the only thing keeping her alive
God damn. I haven't had McDonald's in months. I should get checked.
LOL what was with the older generation and McDs... My mother wanted just a McDonald's burger for her Thanksgiving dinner when she was in the hospital dying from cancer. I get it from my Dad now... How about a McDs burger ! Haaa
@@lorireed8046 I think they just like it because it's simple and a basic cheeseburger or hamburger is pretty small.
I saw a comment once where someone’s grandmother lived 108yrs old & her sister 120yrs old - saying that they ate what they had most of their lives & what they wanted, even if they were told it wasn’t the healthiest choice- that their attitude, activity levels, and faith is what kept them thriving.
My mother just passed a few weeks ago from cancer and her last meal request was a hamburger, but didn’t touch her hamburger from the hospital cafeteria- ended eating Funyuns instead.
@@lorireed8046 McD's foods taste indulgent. They're specifically balanced to activate happy hormones for most people, which can cause one to become addicted if one eats them enough (certain ratios of salt, savoriness, fats, carbs, etc in a magical ratio). And if you're suffering, you want any comfort you can get, even if that's comfort food.
Plus, lots of cancer treatments can mess up your sense of taste (terrible chemical taste in their mouths, or outright narrowing to even completely losing their sense of taste)... and/or the treatments (or cancer itself) can make you very nauseous & kill your appetite. So sufferers might end up, in the first case, overeating in a desperate attempt to satisfy their cravings but unable to find anything that will, or only wanting to eat the few foods they can still taste... or in the latter or combined case, barely eating at all & wasting away. Only feeling able to stomach very specific foods that are either very bland & gentle, or extremely appetizing, with strong enough of specific flavors to still work decently on their limited taste buds.
Related: My dad lost a lot of his sense of taste when he got older, & ended up so desperate & frustrated at not being able to enjoy hardly any foods (which sucked because he suffered so many painful debilitating health conditions, & the comfort of delicious food was one of the few things keeping him going). So he ended up completely changing his meal preferences to extremely savory, salty, & spicy foods, because at least they had SOME semblance of flavor.
((And related to THAT, I'M also suffering multiple agonizing & distressing conditions, & extremely long story short, being at a constant 7-9 on the pain scale since 2001 (age 18-40), it's hard to care about anything anymore. And due to weight problems on top of that, I'm on an extremely restricted diet now, & that deprivation of one of the few things that could sometimes make me forget the pain just for a little while, that could sometimes make it feel ok to be alive... feels like it's killing me more than all the rest of my failing body systems.))
So... I get it.
Let people who are suffering enjoy some dang comfort food once in a while, if they can.
You forgot the last part where the patient receives a bill for $12,000.
yes.
Only in the US
well i live in canada so its more like wait a year to see a specialist each goddamn time
120,000*
@@NedTheFrogYah this one knows how to account for inflation ;)
I would donate blood on a semi-regular basis for many years, but with the Pandemic I stopped donating for two years. We’ll, my hemoglobin was getting rather high so I asked my doctor what the treatment is. He said “wellll, a bloodletting” ! I told him about my long pause of donating so he said I should do a donation and see him again. Problem solved.
High hemoglobin levels is a problem? It doesn't just even put at a certain point? What!?
Hemochromatosis?
That probably happens because you aren’t supposed to have your blood sucked out of you and placed into other people. It’s unnatural and your body doesn’t like it.
Wow, you're so lucky 😅. I am anemic
You should've gone with the bloodletting: skull:
I was told that I "couldn't have dislocated my knee cause I wasn't screaming and crying" then it turns out my knee was dislocated. Interesting medical criteria for that diagnosis.
I guess they wanted to see hysterics?
@@ThePokeMusicLover one time I was in hysterics cause (as it turns out) I had an obstructed kidney stone. I didn’t know that at the time but I couldn’t walk I could hardly breathe cause of the agony. The emergency room I went to declared I was faking it and drug seeking and kicked me out. I had to go to another ER to be taken seriously. The next day I was in surgery. So that doesn’t always work either.
That's the exact same thing my football coach told me in 9th grade when I dislocated my shoulder🤣
@@Sp0rkWafflezsounds like some good ol misogyny....
How?@@vastowen4562
Accurate! My final prescription was "drink Powerade daily". I no longer have seizures from low sodium.
Haha yeah I got told by my doctor to eat more salt because my blood pressure was so low I was barely registering above “corpse”
My husband had the same thing! We also have “skratch labs” it’s just a powder form that you can pour in water with way less sugar than powder aid or Gatorade.
@@danielled8665 Idk why but that made me laugh out loud 😂
@@dwoktheraynejonsohn4849 haha glad you enjoyed it!
In that instance the doctor had left the room while the machine was running, and when she got back told me I wasn’t allowed to take it off while it was getting a reading. Refused to believe I hadn’t, until she checked again while sitting there.
Poor lady was shocked, and immediately asked me if I get dizzy a lot and wrote a prescription for Iron supplements.
So yeah, my blood pressure was somewhere around “there is no arm in this cuff”
@@danielled8665 Omg more laughter. 😂 I'm glad you're ok though. She was probably so confused
My favorite doctor's visit was after fainting, they just gave me a bunch of snacks and juice to bring my blood pressure back up
I think you mean blood sugar from the sounds of it, but yeah, I had a similar experience on some sand dunes in the middle of summer.
@@ryanstarkweather3625Actually they do mean blood pressure. I'm a Phlebotomist and when our patients get blood drawn some end up fainting. It's because our blood pressure drops drastically it is a term called Vasovagal Syncope. It's pretty common during blood draws. It even happens to people that don't really have a fear of needles or blood.
I almost fainted after injections (tbf I had gotten 32 of them 😅) and my neurologist brought me a piece of birthday cake and a cup of coffee from the break room bc that's all they had 😂 So there I was, sitting on the exam table crying and eating someone's cake. The nurses were so confused (I guess bc he brought it himself and didn't tell them). Best doctor ever.
@@Nicolehubbard88or they are hypoglycemic and their blood sugar levels were to low, that's why I carry mini mars bars in my bag , they work the quickest , specially together with some orangejus
@@maryburger1232 in our clinic our rapid response team brings a snack and a juice 🧃. It really helps them wake up.
“It’s more complicated than that”
Translation: “we have not quite squeezed every penny your insurance is willing to give us just yet”
Exactly!!!!!
Dumb statement. No staff doctor gets more money from insurance. You people are so uneducated.
🎉🎉🎉🎉
He got a separate bill for each time the doctor ran the test.
In addition to the labratories separate bill
yep
Hell yeah, at least 1,000 and 15 buissness days of waiting in-between each test
😂😂😂😂
He must be from toronto
"Isnt that salt?"
"Yes, but also they cost 500$ each"
"yes, FDA forced us to perform testing on them that lasted 5 years and cost $3bn"
@@ekklesiast And you lost me
@@ekklesiast Yes, we shouldn't test drugs to make sure they're safe first and also big pharma is so good for us!
@@youtuber7186 If it is just table salt, why does it need any testing?
I would assume the answer is "because it's not literally just table salt" but you haven't said that. You've just mocked someone for saying something you disagree with and not elaborated.
@@SimonWoodburyForget “so why couldn’t I have just some potato chips?”
“Cuz then you wouldn’t pay us all the money ☹️”
Just let him eat the chips, but wait, we can't bill for a bag of Lay's
Chips are about $3 in the vending machines. Not quite the 3500% mark-up they're used to, but still a profit.
The vendy chips are probably $6 now
Right great video to reinforce the fact that the medical industry is one big scam. Always offering costly band-aid solution instead of teaching preventive medicine and telling patients how to prevent things and change lifestyles.
@@jimmydandy9364 Google: Hyponatremia algorithm to see how complicated treatment of low sodium blood levels can be.
@Jimmy Dandy where do you think the fat acceptance movement came from? They are making insane money off of people slowly killing themselves
Fun fact: Lays potato chips do not contain enough salt to correct a patient’s low sodium, but they can be used to treat hypoxemia.
Seems legit 👍
Sounds like your just not eating enough of them
Another fun fact, Lays have no mineral or nutritional value.. They use table salt and that's basically useless to the body without potassium and magnesium..
A professor of mine once told me "not everything is a pathology." Sometimes the answer is dead simple, and you're just making things way more complicated than they need to be by overthinking things.
Occam's razor
Any health care system operated as a business couldn’t go towards easy inexpensive solutions first… that’d be counterproductive for their goal to make money. (I’m talking in general, not necessarily in this present scenario.)
Horses, not zebras 🤣
Yes depends on what level his sodium is too for sure. Also, am I the only one who hates that lasix is called “water pills”? Hahah
When you hear hoofbeats think horses, not zebras
"Sir, your sodium is too low."
"I'll get on Twitter right away."
He needs salt, not sour and bitter.
He needs salt, not die from frustration 😂
@@kosherre6243 yeah sour and bitter are totally tangible things
damn 💀💀
@@mad8671 yeah and you can extract sodium from a social media platform apparently. What's your point?
"Are they salt pills?"
"Na"
That was clever. I guess that doctor was pretty salty about them finding out, huh?
HAHAHAHAH
Cl ever
😂😂😂😂
@@yeeehawww I see what you did there
With POTS literally the treatment is to increase sodium intake so if I start feeling faint I will literally just do what I call a shot of straight salt and it helps everytime. I've decided to save myself the ER trip and just inhale pure salt instead of dealing with incompetent medical professionals, which vast majority of my doctors have been for chronic illness at least.
You can buy salt tablets at the pharmacy. A lot easier to get down than a shot.
When you said inhale it, I imagined someone doing a line of salt like it was cocaine.
When my sodium drops, I get the urge to eat pickles.
As someone who once worked at a hospital, this is dead ass spot on
@@donnakelley4006That wasn't with the video was about at all get out of here
@@FrancisR420Did we watch the same video?
@@FixxedMiXX We did but the person who mauirandall replied to deleted their post.
@@FrancisR420very likeable. I assume you're successful
Oof that’s sad
Doctors really do act like detectives sometimes, they see the most simple, straight-forward solution and think “nah, that’s what they want me to think, it’s gotta be more complicated than that”
Collective PTSD from the times they perscribed cocaine for everything.
Something about horses not zebra
When you see hoof prints think donkey, not zebra!!!!
Hey man when a malpractice lawsuit can come down on your head for it they prefer to work backwards in hopes they address more serious issues first.
Which yeah, it definitely over-complicates a whole lotta shiz.
Humans, man.
Anyone else was expecting the patient to reveal something that totally ruins all efforts of the doctor to raise the sodium levels back up?
Me
Yes it usually goes like that lol
Yep. That's how I figured. Most doctor stories on reddit are about this.
Another 10% is maggots.
YES
Yeah I saw a couple of these back then I thought the formula was going to be used here again but it was just a doctor trying to keep up with appearances sounding smart and then getting caught
After years of passing out and being dizzy, the dr kept sending me home like I was crazy. My child’s pediatrician noticed I was off and suggested a salty snack when I feel like that. It works! When I have a really bad episode, I’ll sleep with a salt shaker so I can get out of bed. My dr just wants to put me on an antidepressant.
@citrus4971 you’re right, it does… my primary says, let’s not self diagnose and try antidepressant’s first. Also, I’m not pregnant, just to rule out immaculate conception…
hi i literally have the same issue and salt helps me the same way. please see some other doctors for pots. you can try antidepressants but depression doesn’t make you dizzy and salt doesn’t fix depression symptoms. most primary care doctors do not know anything abt pots. you usually need a referral to someone else. unfortunately i haven’t made that step bc im “too young”
@@ticcitoasty that’s good advice. I’d rather not be on antidepressants and you’re right, that’s probably not the problem. Dr’s seem to turn to mental problems if they don’t know what’s going on. I also had been told in my 20’s and 30’s that I was “young and healthy….” Which is kinda true but writing off young women isn’t fair. I’m in my 40’s now and now my primary writes everything off as peri menopause.
I also have POTS and this sounds just like it!
I was ASSAULTED, and the "answer" was anti depressant. Weaned myself off, and fired the doc.
And I can tell you (working in pharmacy), it is literally salt formed into a tablet. No binders or anything - just a gram of salt.
Yes! It was so weird the first time I saw one
Wild, does it even get the protective coating to help it go down or will it dissolve in the mouth?
@@rachael4345 also pharmacist here, nope.
@@panagiotistsampanis1276 wat the hell
@@panagiotistsampanis1276 is it at least cheap?
“bring on the potato chips doc!” just feels so wholesome LMAO
Your 500th like
Yea cuz he isnt salty
IKR 😭😭 I STAN WHOLESOME INTERACTIONS EVEN IF THEY ARE STAGED 🤬
"So I just need salt?"
"It's more complicated than that"
*lists methods of giving him salt*
If only that was the joke
Lists methods of generating revenue
@@timmytid6997 ikr? I wish someone made a comedy sketch about a doctor giving someone salt in different ways
YES exactly, all of those were like the most complicated way to least for how to get a patient less salt-this whole video was so confusing to me tho lmao I have a condition that makes it necessary for me to take in more salt and I’ve never a) had anyone tell me to drink LESS water to bring my sodium level UP (you have to drink more water AND salt, your body uses one to hold onto the other by making a saline solution and if you just add more salt or more water alone it won’t mix right, probably also why you feel dehydrated even though you’re drinking that 40 oz water bottle twice a day-), or b) not recommend salt sticks and Liquid IV first, they’re cheaper for everyone lmao, but that’s just my experience ig???? yall be gettin told you shouldn’t take more salt to have more salt?????
@@stuartmacleod259 this needs more likes
“Let me talk to the kidney doctors”
12 hours later (12 HOURS)
*”I jUsT tAlKeD tO ThE KiDnEy DoCtOrs”*
3rd time he came in the room, I would have been elbow deep in a bag of Lay's. 'Workin' on my sodium, Doc"
For me it's salt and vinegar chips cause the more salt the better......right?
Get me an extra large popcorn from the theater and load that ho with salt
Gatorade for me.
The kid named "Bag of lays"
@@calebcruz2812 kid named finger
This is EXACTLY how hospitals work on a weekend.
I feel you. A lot of them are a bunch of idiots ( not all )
😭
Yes especially emergency rooms bit thats daily for those 😢
It's how they work EVERY DAY
Not just the weekend.
Ah yes. Multiple tests and treatments before just giving him some salt. That's the hospital way 😁.
And then they’ll charge him out of the wazoo
Several thousand bucks well spent
If they make it out with a penny to their name then they have clearly failed
@@metalhd7277 I know you said some salt would fix this, but you have no credentials. We needed to ask 30 departments first and run up your tab before we gave you any sodium.
@@Self37 I don’t think you read what I said lol
The way the patient is so chill makes you wonder how rich he is 😂 that bill is going to raise anyone's pressure
Plot twist, he's Canadian
48 hrs just to tell him he needs more salt, seems about right
man a bot was above me once after the comment got deleted
HOLY SHIT ANOTHER ONE
After also telling him that he didn't need more salt.
@@KingTravis405 exactly but that’s how they like to waste time in the hospital
48 hours and $480,000
This is why i stick with a doctor when they say stuff like "you may just need to up your intake, try to increase by this much and we'll check back in in a week to see if things have improved." You don't want someone just brushing you off telling you to eat some chips and leaving you but you also don't want someone who refuses the simple options until last either.
This pretty much sums up healthcare for the past three years. I say that as a healthcare worker. Only they all went against what they were taught and actually believed that an experimental jab was safe and effective. I'm seriously sick and tired of trying to win the trust of patients after so many doctors have proven to be complete imbeciles.
Idk about you but if my dr is trusted and he looks at me and goes “just eat more of this and you should be fine. If your symptoms don’t get better, come back.” Imma easily not complain. That’s not brushing me off- that’s trying to see if it’s a real issue or just my poor ability to take care of myself, people might not like to realize that but that’s the truth. Most issues don’t need countless tests and over things.
That said I don’t think we are really disagreeing.
@@IhiriTasogare True!
@@IhiriTasogare Dude wtf that is exactly what they said...
@@IhiriTasogare ...and I'm denied basic tests... wohaaa... 'we don't need countless tests', you really think you live in a paradise, right!?, or maybe you're really healthy.. ask me, someone with CFS, severe one..🤨
Literally my doctor just prescribed me with the “eat salty foods and drink lots of hydrating fluids” when I had low sodium once.
Your doctor is a saint.
I had a doctor tell me to eat a bag of potato chips and drink a few glasses of water when I was dizzy as a teen. The best doctor cause she was so right
Sounds formal
Damn, I like the non hydrating fluids
@@misham6547 like coffee, or like jet fuel??
Perfect example of a Dr trying to increase sodium in POTS patients like me.
Do tell me more 👀
Increasing sodium is the only thing that helps me and my 2 kids. Tried midodrine for a couple of years with no change. Started drinking drip drop or liquid iv and carrying salt tablets on us and now we manage just fine.
There's a person on tiktok whose medical emergency bag consists of just a salty pickle.
“And here’s the $7,000 bill for your salt pills”
i always tell my pt you don't have to pay for the hospital bill. like what are they gonna do
@@swagmassa6702 destroy your credit
@@grantmegan91 does it really? Is there a link that explains this? Also usa based
*laughs in non-American*
@@swagmassa6702 they report you to collections and it hits your credit report. Yeah you have to pay medical debt or it destroys your credit. My girlfriend is still fighting with the credit bureaus about a collections that is showing up from years ago that was paid.
“Hi, I’m your doctor, and I’m here to gaslight you”
An iam from the government
YES! 😐
@@calvinhobbs89this mentality scares me
Learn some history then.
Look up "democide"@@christianmccauley7340
can always count on a weirdo throwing in "government bad" in the comments somehow
I had this same issue. I had to go to a neurologist because my family and I were worried about an undiagnosed seizure issue. Spent the night at the ER, spinal taps, EEGs and spent 3 hours in the MRI machine only for them to not find anything, but my neurologist started me on seizure medication that solved the issue, but went to continue to go to the doctor and run tests, still nothing... Found out later that the only reason the seizure medication was helping was because the medication I was on was improving my sodium levels and helping me retain sodium. The entire issue was sodium related and the cure was potato chips! Haven't had any issues since then and living a happy, healthy life 😄
I hope you weren't in America, that sounds so financially crippling
Yep….the chips have potassium & sodium. A family member of mine had seizures in her teens. She wasn’t eating that often which explains the seizures. Come to find out she suffered from low potassium and sodium most of her life and would get auroras and then seizures whenever she was low in both. She could tell when she was low in potassium because her heart rate would go from 68bpm up to 80 bpm and higher. She had to keep track daily to make sure she got close to 4,000mg of potassium and 1,500mg of sodium daily. If she didn’t keep track her levels would get super low and she would have a seizure.
Unbelievable
Wow!
Were you consuming too much water?
Having to wait 12 hours is so true.
The last time I was in the hospital I saw a nurse right as I got in and then had to watch like 4 hallmark Christmas movies before someone else came to take care of me.
"That'll be 800 dollars. Bye!"
800? No no no ...in Murica It would be around 8k
Maybe for one pill
@@buttturkeyclips4891sue them. They cant make you pay for a service they didnt provide
I paid $800 for just an ambulance ride once.... Yeah 😂😢
You missed a couple zeros
Yeah, unfortunately this kind of thing is very real in hospitals and is why there is growing distrust between patient and Hospital/Practitioner.
Trust the science!
They are not "Doctors".
They are individuals who work in the Healthcare Industry.
Yeah, no joke.
I wish I could trust "health care professionals" but so many are caught up in their own "importance " that they are insulted when you ask a question . How come everything I took 20 years ago for the same condition is now considered bad and taken off the market but this shiny new super expensive drug is much better . Some I can understand but all of them ? Will I grow a third eye because I took them for twenty years .Blind faith is difficult and reserved for our Lord everyone else I have questions .
@@ramblingrose6967 Medicine, like many other scientific fields is very dogmatic in the sense that what a journal tells you to do, you do it. Straying from the norm is frowned upon and being seen as unconventional is grounds to lose one's position in the field. It has been this way for centuries.
For example, when soap first appeared in wound treatment, it was scoffed at and spoken out against. Despite it's glaring benefit to disinfectant properties and long-term wound management.
Today it is standard practice to disinfect and thoroughly clean everything before surgery.
Doctors, are after all, Human. No different than you or I and sometimes worse (sometimes better); but the industry as a whole is flawed like any other. Unfortunately.
internal medicine summarized in 1minute
Heyyyy love your videos!!
Lol yeah after you done spent a band on hospital bills
@@nflyoungboy4570 *laughs in European
@@rory6984 well you guys have to give up like half your paycheck just for taxes so...
@@mattsoutback59 nope..
"Oh, I see you have a heart arrhythmia-- No big deal, but we'd like to admit you until it's resolved. So we're putting you on a strict no sodium diet." "But-- My sodium levels are normal." "It's standard procedure."
Two days later, I check out of the hospital with dangerously low levels of sodium, because even though they've been pumping me full of IV fluids, and checking my blood daily, NO ONE NOTICED.
Half a bag of potato chips later, I felt much better.
Use accent on your food tastes great and might fix a possible sodium issue. But accent has potassium which might be the real issue but the hospital cannot charge you for it 😂
@@mahoganydoormadmindstories ... and you missed the point too. The human body needs sodium. If my levels are in the "good" range, restricting me from having sodium can actually be harmful to my health.
Modern medicine is by rote, rather than by actually paying attention to individual patients.
@@johngelnaw1243 you also need potassium. BTW, I went through a similar issue with low levels but the doctors didn't want to tell me which one was low, sodium or potassium because if one is out of sync then both need to be fixed. Potato chips is the worse way to bring your levels back in order. Just add sea salt and accent with a little baking soda and a smidge of epsom salt to a liter of water and drink it throughout the day. Levels will balance out.
I have had sodium level issues almost 20 years. Quickest way to check is to lick some salt. When your levels are low the salt will actually taste sweeter than it should. Saltine crackers and Gatorade work in a pinch.
That's brilliant
@@CoolOkay_ thats rude :(
That's that...
@@CoolOkay_ how lmao
That is most certainly not the best way to check your sodium levels. It's the equivalent of checking for a fever by putting your hand against someone's forehead. The better way is a thermometer (or metaphorically here, a blood test).
LITERALLY. I recently went to the ER with asthma symptoms and they kept trying to tell me it was stomach issues. I insisted it was my chest. After being there for 7 hours, bloodwork, x-ray, and ultrasounds they gave me an inhaler and I felt better immediately. Later I was officially diagnosed with asthma
For years i kept saying i still felt like i couldn't breathe even with my asthma medication. Doctors had duagnosed me with PTSD and generalized anxiety disorder but wouldn't try any meds on me. After about 25 years of not breathing well, they put me on Zoloft for other reasons and suddenly I can breathe properly (except on high anxiety days, and even then it's better than pre-Zoloft). Turns out anxiety can really mess up your ability to get a breath.
Several times I went to an ER or urgent care facility with symptoms of GERD-noted in my medical records. Apparently, myocardial infarctions have similar symptoms. So the doctors examine me and order tests necessary to diagnose heart issues before they can treat the heartburn. Once given a dose of heartburn medicine, relief is immediate. However, I am grateful the doctors assure my heart is ok before treating a much less severe condition.
Not all doctors are created equal...
@@slowanddeliberate6893 what do they call a doctor who graduated last in their class?
….a doctor
Ha!
They did this with my grandma's stroke. It was so obviously a stroke that you wouldn't need to have a nursing license or any other kind of medical license to spot that. Yet they're wasted hours spent ruling out UTI and other silly things. by the time they were like oh yeah she's having a stroke, a couple hours had gone by. 🤦♀️ was the same doctor that had diagnosed my mom's melanoma as ring worm.
Exactly. This is in fact what happened to my wife when they said she needed potassium. I suggested getting her that 50/50 (KCl/NaCl) "Lite Salt" you find at the grocery store for a couple of dollars, but the doctor said No, that that would be bad somehow. Eventualy they gave her potassium pills, consisting of potassium chloride (the same KCl that's in Lite Salt). The difference of course was that they could charge us thousands of dollars. I hate them..
Yeah man that's their worst weapon" oh don't buy that it's not as good as ours and it's also way cheaper than what we'll charge you for"
That does not cost thousands of dollars.
You are a troll
@@chkndnts You want to see our medical bills? Maybe you've never seen what they actually charge your insurance?
@@chkndntsfound the European😂😂😂😂
@@omnivore2220I was prescribed potassium tablets. It was 50 dollars. Medical bills are medication costs. Sorry bro, you're an ass
So they are salt pills?
"Na,Close tho."
My favorite doctor visit is when they told me my neck wasn’t broken since I was moving around. Got an X-ray, it was broken. They apologized and felt really bad 😂
Whoever did that is actually a moron
I've had the opposite but with my foot, where is was so swollen, discolored, and awkward looking that the doctor immediately said they thought it was broke. I said it wasn't since I could still move it. Three x-ray sessions later, it definitely was not broken. They still put a cast on it because they didn't trust me not to walk on it.
They did the same shit to me years ago and laughed about the injury and said my neck was sprained. A few months later, I went in for a fractured wrist, doc knows I won't come back for another test and checks my neck while I'm there and sees remodeling on two of my vertebrae. He wasn't happy with the previous doctors.
Nurse checked my temp after chatting with me when I cam in. She looked it, then at me, then at it and me again and said. "how am I talking with you, you have 40,6 C 105,1F.
Me "I am just happy to be home after 3 flights and 11 hours and after working with this fever for a week."
She " please lay down and wait for you lung x-ray."
At least they apologized.
I don’t know how prevalent of a thought it is for doctors to give lack of explanations, or don’t want to “bore” the patient with info (maybe because doctors are very busy or don’t think a patient can understand the explanation),
But the doctors who made the effort for me to understand the “why” of decisions and to help me understand what is happening in a way that made me feel respected have by far been the most efficacious (I’m my experience) and impactful. Feeling like I was “on the team” was so important to me, and I think it’s part of good bedside manner
In my experience, almost no one cares about science. Also, in my experience, if you want a doctor to explain the science, just ask, and it will make their day.
I'm in the process of applying for med school, so I have science qualifications needed to do that, and the number of times I have tried to explain something sciencey/medical to someone and they just didn't wanna know.
It may well be different if it's coming from a doctor, but I don't know how you could get to being a doctor without having had a lifetime of trying to tell people about science/medical stuff, and them looking at you board, zoned out, and waiting for you to stop and talk about something else, so by the time you get to be a doctor, you've had it so often just assume that's how people will react that way and don't bother explaining the science behind it.
@@gracegaskell8068 There’s a difference between explaining something medical to someone that is not currently involved in that problem, and even if he is, the discussion won’t accompany the cure; and actually being there with the individual that’s gonna make you feel better, the patient is gonna listen and absorb every word even if not fully understood, the mere primitive visualisation of the mechanism of his health is the best placebo. Search new german medicine
@@gracegaskell8068 it doesn't even need to be explaining the "science" behind it, though. Like for GI problems, a doctor once prescribed me Sucralfate and Omeprazole. Ok, cool. But a patient-friendly explanation could be that the omeprazole will help lower stomach acid levels to prevent further irritation to my stomach, and the sucralfate will coat my stomach and help protect it from further damage from acid or other irritants. It doesn't step into the "why this works" but gives just enough info to help the patient understand better than "here, take this and let's see how you feel."
Same for me, I wanna know.
My dad’s a doctor so I literally need the explanation
my doctor literally just passed me the salt shaker
edit: Himalayan salt is the best it tastes good with every food
Your doctor is actually the rare kind that actually knows the cause and fixes... Lucky you
Must be nice having House as your primary healthcae provider.
That's what happens when your doctor has a decode or two of practice down.
I have POTS and I randomly chug salt from my salt shaker all the time. It helps a bit
Also just put salt on any random food you eat, if you're low on sodium salt somehow tastes good with every food
You can do the salt shaker huh ?
I had a patient who would get psychotic and aggressive when his sodium was low (we WERE in a psychiatric corrections facility). So we would put 3 packets of salt in some Gatorade and encouraged him to drink it. It calmed him right down. Of course they wanted ME to get him to drink it. We had a rapport. He liked me, I think because I knew he didn’t like people standing close to him so I would make the other patients back off from him in pill line. He was real quiet, but he would make eye contact and give me a nod. I mean, I knew he was a convicted murderer, NGBROI , but I figured it didn’t hurt me to give him some common courtesy. He actually stepped between me another violent patient and prevented me from getting hurt. Goes to show some common decency can save your life.
Doctor: "Sir your salt is low."
Me, licking my lamp: "Fine then, I'll do it myself."
Sounds like a better use for what you lamp is made of than what it's currently doing, but I don't know that I'd trust it to be food-grade...
@@dynamicworlds1 the earth itself is food grade. eat more dirt. build your immunity.
Underrated comment
@@_jamm___3321 you could just...you know...look up what the term means, and yeah, if something came out of a fucking factory and wasn't intended to be put in human mouths, it's not necessarily germs I'm worried about.
You don't know if the salt was contaminated with heavy metals, or if there's some synthetic binder or sealant involved, or if there's some kind of industrial tooling oil that's gonna give you the shits no matter what your imune system is, or some carcinogenic solvent involved, etc.
So it's a bit less of an "eat dirt" situation and more of an "eat paint chips, they probably don't contain lead" situation. I'm really not interested in that stupidity, thank you.
@@dynamicworlds1 mettles are necessary for the body and oil is natural meaning not harmful. oh and what's that getting the shits from oil where the hell dose that logic come in because oil doesn't cause that. the "synthetic" binder is the glass itself because it hardens together. The only harmful thing about this is that you would have to break up the glass witch is sharp. So calm down and act like the adult you are.
“No sir they’re not pills. They’re tablets”
I mean, they probably cost as much as an iPad 🤷
You wouldnt want someone thinking they were getting a salt capsule, that would be a horrific misunderstand.
Definitely tablets! As a pharmacy technician, I once popped one of these per a pharmacist’s recommendation. I spat it out amd I can confidently say that it was a VERY salty tablet…
Good thing he clarified they're sodium chloride tablets and not sodium tablets because I prefer to live and wouldn't take the latter.
This is so realistic that it gives me shivers down the spine
just had a low sodium episode last night after a week of eating plants and sweating outside all day. got some taco bell from doordash cuz i was too dizzy to drive and it cured me
One of my meds causes night sweats so I am constantly low on sodium in the mornings. Some mornings I don't want to eat much so I just drink water with a bunch of salt in it lol
Try Indian black salt on your veggies. Available at any Indian grocery store. Smells like farts(but no worse than fish sauce) AND makes veggies extra yummy, more yummy than with just salt.
Don't forget to watch your iodine as well, in most cases we get that through iodised table salt. So if your salt intake is low, that might be low too.
u know you can put salt on plants right?
@@nonwibb i'll put salt on u, snail
Can we talk about how supportive this patient is? I know that I would be pretty pissed at that point, but he goes along with it no problem!
Probably from Minnesota
I walked out while waiting once simply because I had to call public transportation if I didn't want to get stuck. I was unable to drive with a broken fibula. I had gone to the walk in clinic after my morning appointment and 2:30 came I was like so long see you. Had me waiting just to tell me I had a hematoma. It was on the chest so I figured I might want to get the weird lump checked out
Yeah I def would have said “you’re pretty brainwashed for someone who has a degree”
@@Dree03 are you an actual doctor may I ask? If so thanks for serving
@@seanraines5871 no, getting a doctorates in comp sci
I had a low blood sugar in the hospital, I was actually excited thinking I was finally gonna be able to drink a juice or eat a pudding. The gave me a glucose IV drip 😭
That is the saddest thing ever
Actually drinking sweets would be the first line of treatment if you weren't passed out/not that severe, like sweet tea. The fact that they give you glucose IV meaning its too low and drinking/eating sugar wont help
@@Vyansya it was only 70, I didn’t even know it was low until they took my blood sugar. I think they panicked because of how much insulin I was taking to stay alive.
literally will do anything to justify taking your money
😂 omg 🙈 poor boi.
“That’s fine doc, keep me in the hospital another day. I really don’t want to go back to work.“
TRUTH! I was in the hospital for 6 months and i went through that. the first thing they did was put me on a "SALT FREE" Diet! and sent me home with a huge bottle of...SALT TABLITS!
Yeah, everyone is in a low sodium diet at first. Then they never change it. Even when giving salt pills.
Did u have to pay for them
I think thats a way of strictly controlling salt intake. Remove it from other sources and only add it as a fixed quantity.
@Daniel Morton perhaps but the fact that doctors never explain what they're doing is infuriating. They get mad at for people for things without asking questions or explaining why. No wonder I never go.
@@danielmorton1606 So put salt in your water ? Ya know spend 89 cents instead of $55
I have a genetic condition where I don't retain the salt that I eat. I can 100% say that the way to up your sodium levels is to eat more damn salt. Just be sure to drink water along with it.
In my experience I'll crave salt when I need it, and when I've had enough it becomes overpowering.
I've noticed when I camp in the desert, I feel a lot better if I pack some salty snacks and munch on a little every 1-2 bottles of water. Pickle spears, saltines, Spanish olives... Anything like that to get some electrolytes back in. Otherwise, I start feeling a bit off.
@@ExaltedDuck
You should try out Liquid IV electrolyte packets. Small/lightweight, portable, non-perishable and mixes into water. (Cold water is best.) I spent all day outside for two months in our humid southern heat (misery) working on my landscaping. Previously, I couldn’t do anything outside in the summer. I’d drink 1 or 2 a day while also drinking plenty of water, creating shade when I could, taking breaks and eating regularly. I never got sick, like I typically do even just sitting outside. (I’m hot natured, warm when others are cold. I also sweat profusely. From infancy.)
@@ahe79 thanks for the tip. I'm the same way. Don't even need a jacket unless it's less than 40 F and windy. And when it's even just a little humid and hot I don't just sweat, I drench. 😄
My doctor tells me to eat more salt. I have hypotension and my body doesn't hang on to fluids without it.
@@AngelaKSellsHomes yep, osmosis
Let me go talk to the nurse….
“12 hours later”
Sounds about right
i was looking for this
Occam's razor, the best explanation is often the simplest
I'm an RN on a cardiac unit (electrolytes like sodium are monitored very closely), and this is pretty spot on lol
Yeah I work in geris and we pretty much go thru this exact drama every time 🙄 (and it really is a drama cos you've got this poor person who doesn't understand why they're not being allowed to drink much and their family getting mad cos they're complaining about being thirsty all the time. Sigh)
Why do they do this?
Eat your iodine slaves 👨🦲👩🦲👩🦲
@@weetzybat electrolytes effect muscle tissue, and a big muscle that we are concerned about is the heart. (Lytes do a lot more than just that but thats the simple/short answer).
You work on a tele unit? Awesome! I am a retired nurse and it's been a while but we did Chem-12's, on tele, step down and the unit (I think it's just called a CMP now). I do recall that Kayexalate was given if the K+ was too high as lowering it would also help to reestablish Na+ levels. Maybe I'm not recalling it correctly however, doctors really do things like that, yes.
he was so calm yet they kept just draining his wallet
He has insurance. Idk why you people think people pay tens of thousands of dollars in hospital bills every visit.
@@top10cars2the 10 percent they dont cover is gonna be alot
@@Shader1Susually around $500-600
@@BigRheno hmmm, idk bro 600 dollars vs 0 dollars
@@Shader1S America literally covers the healthcare system of other countries by half or more. For example, we cover 50% of Canada’s care through NATO
Just gotta play league of legends and that sodium will go right up
You will find the saltiest individuals
Yup!.
That’s your blood pressure rising lol
@@vilenationgaming so if your blood pressure is to low then play league of legends
Overwatch can be the same. Holy shiiiit it gets real salty
"Your bill is $19,000,000"
I was told I was a hypochondriac for decades, too many different symptoms that don't go together. Finally, at age 50 I was diagnosed with Graves Disease and a genetic heart valve defect and all my symptoms made sense.
Graves’ disease? That’s curious. I was diagnosed with graves disease after blood test came back showing that everything was normal. Three months later I could hardly walk 3 feet without panting like I’d just ran a marathon. Lost 50 kg in 3 months… not sure how you lived with Graves’ disease most of your life. My doctor classified me a walking heart attack or stroke because I was so hyper metabolic…
Yah, I was considered a hypochondriac for 40yrs. Then my daughter at age 9 was sent to a geneticist due to being extremely hypermobile (something I've struggled with my entire life) and she was diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Her Dr looks at my medical history and says "she clearly got this from you!" Now all of my medical anomalies make sense. *and I keep salt pills everywhere because we both have POTS and pass out if we don't salt load.
I have graves too. It’s in remission but when I had my first onset of symptoms the doctors didn’t know what it was cuz my symptoms were the exact opposite of what graves usually presents.
@@jessicasmarker7664 that's really interesting ... it seems to manifest in different ways in different people ... how long have you been in remission? and how did you GET into remission? :)
@@virtuallyme2518 they put me on the normal meds. Can’t remember what it was called it’s been so long. Ive been off the meds for almost 5 years. My journey was a weird one because I was told most people with any thyroid problems can get them corrected in a year or so with medication. My doctor started the first attempt to ween my thyroid off the meds, as they do, and my thyroid relapsed so we upped the dose again. They were concerned that I’d have to remove my thyroid completely. But I just told them as long as there are no risks to staying on the meds then we can do that. Because I’d have to be on meds for the rest of my life anyways if they took out my thyroid. There were risks to the meds but it had to do with white blood cell count, of which I never had a problem with. So eventually, as noted, I was able to ween to be completely off the meds after about 4/5 years.
The accuracy!!!! 🙄 They can't charge you $500 for chips, but they can charge you $500 for lab made salt pills.
but i can always leave early and call bs on the bill
Apparently you haven't seen the prices in the cafeteria lately.
@Squidbush8563 God damn how big a bag you eating that it's costing $500?
@@dakotawelch7378 the little ones. If you don't have insurance, you pay full price
@@halfblood_drag0n Uh... you know you can refuse treatment at anytime, yeah? You're not being held hostage.
😂 I was in this exact situation multiple times during a nephrology rotation… it’s amazing how some people’s sodium labs will continue trending the “wrong way” despite a half dozen treatments that would’ve been “foolproof” correction in almost anyone else 🤯
I always find with hyponatraemia that it takes me 48 hours to work out the cause, by which time it resolves on its own.
As a medical-based SLP I encourage my patients to research Redmond real salt/ Celtic sea salt. The most nutrient-based/dense supplement that most don’t utilize or heard of. My parents have control high blood pressure any more. I need to catch up with them by the way. 😊
Reminds me of when my blood pressure was super low when I was at school, but they didn't have salt there, only soy sauce. So I drank a bit of it, followed with water. People were horrified that I drank soy sauce like that and looked absolutely puzzled about how would I rather do that than call an ambulance.
I eat seasoning all the time since a kid. Drank half a bottle of worstersire sauce ive the last couple days alone. If it werent so expensive I'd drink bottles of sauces a day still.
I would drink soy sauce to avoid going to the hospital also.
I stay drinking soy sauce
Soy sauce all the way.
@@cecelym paging ChubbyEmu
"Sir, your sodium is low"
" alright let me go check my exes IG really quick"
LOOL I left, and had to come back to like this comment 🤣
I appreciate the fact he points out that medical professional can at times be somewhat condescending. I use to have a friend who was a nurse. She treated everyone else who wasn't in the medical field like an idiot. Problem tho she legit was a moron and I still don't know who tied her shoes for her in the morning.
Ah, classic Dunning-Kruger effect
"use to have"
"was a nurse"
"a moron"
Seems like you dropped her for good.
Well done, mate.
That's an underrated burn that I've never heard before hahaha. 'I still don't know who tied her shoes for her in the morning' 😂
There are so many nurses this way its sickening. Funny thing is i dropped out of nursing school and still know more than those nurses who act like geniuses. They usually have no knowledge and its like how did you graduate and get licensed? I dropped out and learned more than some it seems lmao.
Love the room and bed with the wooden headboard.. 🤣🤣🤣... And the oh so smart doctor... 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Nephrology: "Just give him salt goddamnit"
“Look man, the vending machine only has one bag of chips left and I don’t know when they’ll be restocking it so the chips are mine.”
My pediatrician said my red blood cell count and sodium were low when I was 21. He gave me a bag of lays and said I needed more junk food lmao.
Hol' up... You were still seeing a pediatrician at 21 years old?
@@MagnusPeccatori 21 is the cutoff
@@AfroSnackey It's just that I thought pediatricians were for children
Just gonna say that the closest allergy doc in my area is a pediatric allergollogist. The hospital the doc works at is also top tier. 😅
I walk amd run around a lot in a warehouse for work. I don't like Gatorade and when I'm getting dehydrated and losing too many salts from all the sweating I litterally put like 4 salt packets into a few oz of water. I quickly feel so much better amd over time feel even more so. And when I drink just water I actually feel hydrated again. (For those unaware, why too much salt is dehydrating, salt is an electrolyte and not having enough means your body can't actually hydrate.) People think it's gross, which I guess it is, but it works and again, I don't like Gatorade.
The patient is a saint, so much patience and a pleasant attitude
, from the pov of someone who works in customer service
You do know this is a mocked satirical and sarcastic scene sending us a message of what does happen in real life. Doctor and patient seem to be the same person
@@auragonzalez976
::WHOOSH::
unfortunately their trust in their doctor lead to potentially more harm than good. medical field is not comparable considering a mistake can lead to death or injury
The patient is patient
@@auragonzalez976 laughably, I literally went through similar. During another issue that required hospitalization, my sodium and magnesium were low. The source of low magnesium remains a mystery, as that's become chronic, despite adequate intake and ruling out certain medications, probably absorption related.
The low sodium was secondary to low intake, as due to my hypertension, I restrict my sodium intake and only goose it up a bit in summer and I'll be out in the heat.
Well, that and all results were going to be haywire, as I was in the middle of a thyroid storm.
I've used that and similar gaffes that residents make as opportunities to improve doctor's education, as that's why they're residents and doctor and patient are best suited as a team.
Physicians with many years of experience worry when I come in and start asking questions, as if I've not quite got a handle on it, it's gonna be complicated and likely to require consultations with specialists.
Yep, before my mom's cancer killed her, she was VERY low on sodium. We managed to bring it back up safely at home with a pretty consistent routine of gatorade and soup. managed to go from 100 to 125 in a week, doc was impressed.
Ultimately didn't help her though.
Folks, always get second and third opinions if your oncologist says you or a loved one is "cancer free".
As a dietitian, this is so true! There can be multiple etiologies for low sodium. Most often it's too much salt or too much fluid intake, but sometimes it can also be due to your kidneys not retaining sodium so you lose it in your urine or with diarrhea from poor absorption. Always important for your healthcare team to investigate the root cause before prescribing treatment! :)
As with most problems, you want to avoid going straight to addressing the symptoms and, as you say, instead look for the root cause. Otherwise you're just kicking the can down the road!
True
While true, this can be addressed much better. Like, "you may just need to consume more salt, but we need to rule out potential serious causes first."
Thank you, without your comment I didn't understand what was going on at all
As if any medical professional I have ever been to has ever been remotely interested or willing to pursue an actual investigation into a complaint and not just treat the symptom, which is seldom done or with any consistency or accuracy anyway.
Sir your sodium is pretty low"
"Maruchan can help with that"
made me laugh, thanks for that.
This is gold, for those that get it🤣
Cup noodles for the win!! Haha
I think those are the reason my grandpa died
@@jordanrial166 me next please *while eating creamy chicken maruchan*
I once worked as a pharmacy tech at a nursing home and there were a couple residents on salt pills. They were literally straight up just square chunks of salt.
And they cost 22 dollars for 2 😅
"Pharmaceutical grade sodium chloride" 😂
@@ilikefooty5380 more like $15 for a bottle of 60 tablets. I have to take salt pills sometimes if I can't consume enough salty food and drinks.
Yuh yuh. I'm not scheduling another appointment 2 months from now for a test you should have done in the first place. Ty very much.
When the hospital wants to charge you for everything humanly possible before giving you the easiest fix possible.
As a hospital nurse, hyponatremia has always confused me. Some improve with extra salt, others with IV saline, and others with fluid restrictions.. why they respond differently? I wish I knew. I dread trying to explain this phenomenon to patients and their families.
@@3omda29 Not only does that sound kind of condescending but they literally said they‘re a hospital nurse. They went to nursing school.
So there are 3 types of hyonatremia. Hypervolemic, isovolemic, and hypovolemic. The first one is due to fluid retention causing Na+ dilution - something that can happen in decompensated heart failure. The first step is usually fluid restriction. On the other end if it’s hypovolemic that person may need fluids or extra salt. The Skit above fails to mention that the patient’s serum osmalarity and urine osmalarity need to be checked in order to differentiate what kind of hyponatremia the patient has - that would save A LOT of time. This really the basics and it can get much more complicated. Hope this helps.
It has to do with their both their fluid status and their serum sodium. So even if their serum sodium is “normal” if they’re hypervolemic then it’ll appear low and vice versa
@@3omda29 learn to read dipshit
@@TrionAlpha Thank you! That helped a lot.
When I had gastroenteritis they didn't allow me to drink anything until they were done with tests. Took the hospital like 5 days to do all of them and every time I asked if I could drink water they told me no, so by the time they were done with the tests my kidneys were shot because they weren't getting enough liquid and I was significantly worse than when I went to hospital
I give them exactly 24 hours and then I'm out. Even if it means checking myself out . Last time I bothered going to the hospital they put me in an ER (11pm) room, and didn't get to me but, the nurse came in with some stupid drug and I refused it (pain killer drugs and not needed) @ 6am they were getting my paperwork done and told me they were sending me to another hospital when an ambulance was available. Hmm why? No response! I told the nurse I had my car there and could drive I don't need the ambulance. Dr. Was pissy but.. finally okayed me driving myself. Got the sealed paperwork and (stupid me) went to the other hospital where they INSTANTLY put me in a room. By 2 pm the ONLY 2 people I saw were the main doctor (to give me a stop smoking pamphlet and charge me $350 for that honor) and the cleaning lady. Now, I'm at 15 hours, my phone has died and I'm pissy. LOL. 18 hours they said I have a stupid cyst and will need to have surgery so, no eating or drinking for 24 hours from that point. Hmmm for a dang cyst?? Really??? I checked myself out and was fuming. NO surgery and NO "treatments" that hospital bill (between both hospitals) was $18,000 no joke and YES, that denied drug was on there AND the doctors fee that never DID any surgery. I fought that crap for 4 years. In the mean time I had to pay that stupid bill while it was in court. I will NEVER go back. I'll die in the streets first.
@@lorireed8046 and this is why socialised healthcare should be something everybody wants.
That could've killed ANYONE even if they came in healthy, let alone someone with a condition! Gah! 😱
Did you tell them how long you'd been without liquid as time wore on? You gotta speak up repeatedly; much of the staff don't keep thorough enough notes (or read them) between shifts, so the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
If they didn't at least give you I.V.s then that's REALLY messed up!
@@DavidCruickshank You realize we have examples of "social medical services) already in place her in the USA, right?
@@DavidCruickshank lol, that socialized Healthcare would have taken him weeks to even see a doctor, only to do the same shit but charge you via taxes. How's the tax rate in those countries, anyway?
In my experience, doctors are actually always happy when I show interest, and knowledge in scientific procedures. They have so far always taken an extra minute or two if I wanted to know more
Extensive hyponatremia workup ending up with Salt tab prescription always cracked me up too lol
Literally just asked this for my hyponatremic Icu patient last night for almost this exact scenario
“Humans tend to solve simple problems with complicated solution”
-an alien probably
"I'm really busy, I need to go check on some other patients"
This has to be the most common excuse doctors and nurses use to escape lol
don’t forget about CNAs. mainly used by us when a resident will not stop talking about something completely unrelated😂😂
@@sydneycharlot8422 hey I am CNA 😃
Imagine trying to feed the patient and instead of eating they want to tell you about hearing another patient singing at night... Or they refuse to eat hospital food and want delivery.
@@PrimordialNyx imagine being stuck in a hospital not being able to sleep and paying thousands possibly. Let me get my delivery (you are the type of person that gives yourself a bad rep)
@@mrliable9703 well when that doctor's orders are for the patient to not eat because some examination that needs to be done, or certain things are forbidden in their diet I believe it's reasonable to not feed them said stuff. Or in the case you have to feed the patients not only one but 20+ sometimes by yourself, and one patient is delaying, it'd be bad if this ended up with our patients losing weight or not being fed properly.
So excusing yourself like that I believe it's a kind way to continue your work and tend other people who need your care as well.
Also I assume you thought I was American since you mentioned 'paying thousands of dollars', while free healthcare exists.
@@PrimordialNyx news flash I don't I actually give a fuck about you or your opinions. Thanks for the 30 seconds of entertainment
I completely love you Doc!! Hey your the most honest Dr I have seen that doesnt have a problem laughing at all the things doctors do.😂 love your videos!
As a nurse….. this is exactly what happens every time.
My dads sodium levels dropped so low he was hospitalized. So bad infact they put him on a ventilator. Turned out it was all to do with his thyroid. So yeah sometimes its not the obvious solution. Props to docs. Oh and my dads fine now 2 weeks on vent but they got his levels stable and his home now. :)
GodSpeed
Props to GOOD docs*** your dad’s very lucky!
why wasn’t his low sodium noticed before it got bad enough for ventilation? or is it normal for him to be alone for 48+ hours without talking to anyone?
Don’t think it Don’t think it Don’t think it sus
What’s a Thyroid?
I'm glad my cardiologist didn't do this! She just straight up told me in like 5 minutes "Yeah you should eat more salt. You want chips? Cool, get some! Also, gatorade."
Lol same! So glad my doctor didn’t beat around the bush and just said it how it is
Sometimes it is as simple as that, other times there are dangerous underlying conditions. A doctor may ignore such cases if they always resorted to the simple solution. But starting with the simple solution and monitoring to see if any issue persists/arises is also a good option
This was me at the hospital a little while ago. The only thing was that I was waiting for around 8 hours to see one doctor, did a test on a treadmill and then some blood tests. Then told me to eat more and left. 😂
Envy, envy, envy those whose docs tell them to eat more. For most people, including me, it's eating less that's the best thing.
@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648Its not all rainbows. I've always been underweight and alot of my health issues regarding my heart issues, blood pressure, reproductive, etc were ignored when I asked for help to gain weight because I knew I was always sick when I dropped weight, I would gain had trouble keeping it on. Like I literally could actually tell you, that I had lost weight when I got sick and step on the scale and you would see that I did indeed drop. Most doctors would just smile and be like "There's nothing wrong with your weight., people would love to be at your weight. YOU'RE HEALTHY"
" But I didn't feel healthy. I quite literally took all the weight lost literature and unhealthy dieting fads and flipped it to gain weight. I obsessively counted calories and over ate to keep weight on which didn't work well. And would binge eat when I saw the scale tip down. I ate fatty and high protein foods. I obsessively tried muscle building workouts instead of cardio. Because I didn't want to get violently sick. It took me until I was in my early twenties to hear a college professor suggest that I eat ice cream or yogurt every night or morning, I was desperate so I tried, and it steadied me but I didn't gain, then in my mid twenties the chronically ignored heart problem landed me in surgery. Then it was cardiology who FINALLY helped me get nutritional help to gain and keep weight.
Docs ignored my brother's main problems and blamed it on his extra weight and to just lose it.
Docs ignored problems because it was "Unlikely you have those problems because its mostly seen in over weight patients". and do nothing.
Overall docs need to just stop looking at just weight and look at the whole patient. Cuz like honestly the whole eating disorder but to gain weight isn't event taken seriously by my current doctors. They think I'm making it up.
@@SeekingTheLoveThatGodMeans7648not really sure what that implies if not the obvious. My advice is to eat more fruits in your diet and veggies. I know, sounds dumb but go watch Fat,Sick&Nearly dead documentary series for explanations. Also eating at specific times of the day really helped me with weight maintenance in addition to moving around more (that 30 mins/day thing is no joke after 3wks, I started dropping 5-10lbs a week and then reached my goal and had to maintain weight for specific health reasons. Drinking more water instead of anything else also by itself was worth 5lbs in a week before I even started my journey. I know it's not much and can literally be called water weight, but when you stop craving sugar and salt something switches inside and at least for me I started feeling better, which became the reason to keep going, not the weight loss. The hard part is not yoyoing after the journey ends.
Haha, I got told to get more sun, I was there for endometriosis pain. Never went back to that office again. I’m naturally pale and it was December in Connecticut.
That’ll be $600