When Your Sodium is Low

[jamesforgington]

I love how accurate the “lemme go talk to the kidney doctors” *12 hours later* is

[meliorlife]

"Now that will be $600, 000 because we exhausted every option but the one you offered first"

[ilikechococookies]

The most painful part of this is the twelve hour break between every patient update 😭👍

[nickbyrwa]

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.

[TheGankednoob]

He got a separate bill for each time the doctor ran the test.

[sandybeaches]

my cardiologist literally gave me a bag of chips and watched my tachycardia calm down.

[mx_ae]

"Are they salt pills?"
"Na"

[anarchicbean]

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

[ashleytyraisaacs]

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.

[SuperLadyDanger]

That doctor just wanted to keep the chips for himself!

[masheemashedpotatoes]

Accurate, except in real life it’d be a different doctor every 12 hours.

[briansmith]

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.

[r.g.s.]

"Isnt that salt?"
"Yes, but also they cost 500$ each"

[EvansFamilyLegoProject]

Accurate! My final prescription was "drink Powerade daily". I no longer have seizures from low sodium.

[browneyestar]

You forgot the last part where the patient receives a bill for $12, 000.

[poorlittlebiker]

“It’s more complicated than that”
Translation: “we have not quite squeezed every penny your insurance is willing to give us just yet”

[rosesweetcharlotte]

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

[SprkWafflez]

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.

[whiterabbit]

"Sir, your sodium is too low."
"I'll get on Twitter right away."

[parishapeach]

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.