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littlemissmartypants

(28,434 posts)
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 04:30 PM Apr 2025

Good news!

My labs are in and it turns out, I'm dehydrated. That in itself is an easy fix. Now, I wait for my other results and more doctor visits.

Thanks again for all of the love and concern.

You all mean more to me than I can ever say sufficiently.

RESIST!!
❤️pants

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Good news! (Original Post) littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 OP
Great news! gademocrat7 Apr 2025 #1
Drink to your heart's content, LMSP True Dough Apr 2025 #2
Great news, pants. Keep your fluid intake up and get some rest. I will keep you in my prayers. debm55 Apr 2025 #3
Glad to hear you are doing better, pants! sheshe2 Apr 2025 #4
Thanks for the great news, Pants! SheltieLover Apr 2025 #5
Drink up!! Hope22 Apr 2025 #6
I'm so glad it's an easy fix. HeartsCanHope Apr 2025 #7
Awesome news! summer_in_TX Apr 2025 #8
Woah! My mom didn't drink enough water during a summer month. She started having trouble speaking, and sort of passed.. electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #18
Trauma grabs us in unexpected ways. summer_in_TX Apr 2025 #21
Aww, TY! electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #22
👍💦... MiHale Apr 2025 #9
Happy to hear it! Dorothy V Apr 2025 #10
Slow and steady IbogaProject Apr 2025 #11
Good to hear, pants! 💜 Cha Apr 2025 #12
This may be just me and some people I know soldierant Apr 2025 #13
Awesome 👍 FirstLight Apr 2025 #14
This is indeed good news! MIButterfly Apr 2025 #15
That is good news. Have to keep that water intake up. LoisB Apr 2025 #16
I was dealing with tachycardia rambler_american Apr 2025 #17
Good news, and good luck! Hopefully either something that will resolve itself, or be easily managable (2nd choice). electric_blue68 Apr 2025 #19
Wonderful news!! ailsagirl Apr 2025 #20
Great news but about what were you worried? NNadir Apr 2025 #23
I had a lapse in consciousness with a fall and got hurt. littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 #24
I had something similar a few weeks back, not quite as bad. NNadir Apr 2025 #25

True Dough

(23,651 posts)
2. Drink to your heart's content, LMSP
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 04:33 PM
Apr 2025

Well, maybe mostly non-alcoholic beverages, or you'll wind up on the floor again.

Be well!

HeartsCanHope

(1,120 posts)
7. I'm so glad it's an easy fix.
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 05:56 PM
Apr 2025

I try to shoot for 8-10 8oz glasses of fluids a day. I also have cut my salt intake. I have a tendency to have kidney stones and it makes a real difference to drink fluids at this level. I haven't had a kidney stone in several years, (as she knocks on wood!) Stay hydrated and I hope you are feeling better soon.

summer_in_TX

(3,690 posts)
8. Awesome news!
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 05:58 PM
Apr 2025

So happy to hear it!

Labs are so important to finding the real causes of things. A friend thought she was dying and was preparing to go at age 93. She was both incontinent and incoherent. Her labs showed she had very low potassium. She lived another three happy years.

electric_blue68

(22,337 posts)
18. Woah! My mom didn't drink enough water during a summer month. She started having trouble speaking, and sort of passed..
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 12:11 AM
Apr 2025

out.

I called for an ambulance, but stayed back at home. I'd been through so many emergencies with her (severe asthma when I was 5 1/2 yrs onward, and other occasional events, with one really terrifying one in my ?30s ), as she got better my dad started having problems. This was just the final straw of trauma.
.
I did set out after a crying bout around 1 1/2 hours later. Got chewed out by the doctor for not being there. Anyway they were afraid she'd had a massive stroke, and who knows how much she'd recover.
.
Had to call my sis for her to get a red-eye flight. I fell asleep, and my sister woke me saying she was awake,?and better and something or other like that. I burst into tears. My sis said - you're like, how you be if I told you bad news? Not a nice to say.

Went to meet the doctor who said - we rehydrated her, and she blossomed like a flower. [Wow!]
Hydration, and needed some electrolyte rebalancing, I think.

She lived another 10 - 12 yrs? Cogent, and creative. 🥰

Dorothy V

(358 posts)
10. Happy to hear it!
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:14 PM
Apr 2025

Rehydrating will hopefully help make it easier to deal with any other issues.
Still praying for you!

IbogaProject

(4,634 posts)
11. Slow and steady
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:28 PM
Apr 2025

it might take a few days to fully recover as the initial water will pass through while clearing any backlog of water soluble waste products. The way to re-hydrate and make it stick is to drink 6 or 7 ounces (just under a cup) each hour and right when you finish put a speck of salt on the back of the toungue. That little trick helps the body reset. The current recommendations are around 5 glasses a day. Eight was for soldiers in boot camp and is only needed if you are exerted or sweating a lot.

https://www.hpb.com/your-bodys-many-cries-for-water-a-preventive-and-self-education-manual-for-those-who-prefer-to-adhere-to-the-logic-of-the-natural-and-the-simple-in/P-1231374-USED.html

soldierant

(8,728 posts)
13. This may be just me and some people I know
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:50 PM
Apr 2025

but I believe more fluid gets to where it should be in our body if the water is taken with a smidgen of electrolytes. Just a smidgen. Like "Gatorade" or a similar product diluted with just water in the proportion of one to one, or even a little more water. At that dilution, it doesn't have much flavor, but neither does plain water.

I have various allergies and once got myself released from the hospital with this. I had an allergic fever (I'm pretty sure that was a reaction to the strong chemicals hospitals use to disinfect everything - I wouldn't have it any other way, but I just can't take them), and they kept testing and testing and there was no infection (my white cell count was actually high.) I got my family to smuggle in an electrolyte drink - it was actually by Knudsen but I don't know whether they make it any more - and a couple of hours later I could literally feel the fever break. And it stayed gone. I got out the next day.

(Edited to add this after reading another comment) If you are interested in trying the pinch-of-salt thing, consider the "light" salt which combines sodium and potassium chlorides - the two electrolytes work better together for some.

FirstLight

(15,467 posts)
14. Awesome 👍
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 06:56 PM
Apr 2025

I hope everything feels better soon! We got to take care of our bodies if we're going to fight back LOL

MIButterfly

(815 posts)
15. This is indeed good news!
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:05 PM
Apr 2025

Yahoo!!! I'm so glad to hear it. I've been thinking about you and hoping for an update. Now, go get a glass of water!

rambler_american

(909 posts)
17. I was dealing with tachycardia
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 07:32 PM
Apr 2025

sometimes my heart rate would spike to over 200 during very moderate exertion..
Turns out it was dehydration. Like you said, easy fix.

electric_blue68

(22,337 posts)
19. Good news, and good luck! Hopefully either something that will resolve itself, or be easily managable (2nd choice).
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 12:15 AM
Apr 2025

littlemissmartypants

(28,434 posts)
24. I had a lapse in consciousness with a fall and got hurt.
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 02:30 PM
Apr 2025

I'm still waiting for more test results. I'll share more when I know more. Thanks so much for your concern. ❤️

NNadir

(36,159 posts)
25. I had something similar a few weeks back, not quite as bad.
Thu Apr 10, 2025, 02:36 PM
Apr 2025

I was extremely dizzy and thought I'd fall; I had to hold on to the wall.

In my case I suspect it was hypoglycemia. I'm on ozempic, but was still taking a type 2 diabetic medication. My doctor fitted me with a continuous glucose monitor. I noticed I was near the lower limits.

Hopefully yours is as easily addressed as mine; which involved discontinuing a med.

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