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Questions about Eliquis and Meds for Pain Relief
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Nov 28, 2023 | Replies (120)Comment receiving replies
Hi cat mom, If I were you I would find it hard to believe that drinking what sounds like a normal amount of water and cutting back on salt could cause your sodium level to sink so low that you need to be hospitalized. The hospitals would be full of patients with your symptoms. Did you exercise and sweat a lot due to the heat maybe? I would seriously do your homework and see what else it could be. I checked out the side effects of Eliquis and sure enough there is a lot of bleeding, weakness and feeling faint but nothing about low sodium levels.
Check this out: Are you on any of these drugs: https://www.merckmanuals.com/en-ca/home/hormonal-and-metabolic-disorders/electrolyte-balance/hyponatremia-low-level-of-sodium-in-the-blood Why not ask your pharmacist to help you figure this out? They study drug interactions and side effects for 6 years in university.
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I went in to see my pharmacist yesterday but he was real busy and couldn't talk to me. Maybe next time. I don't know how all that happened. I can't explain it. I had been feeling dizzy, confused, disoriented, and feeling awful for days, and increasingly so. I was convinced it was the blood thinners but the ER docs told me it wasn't. That's when they admitted me. They thought something was going on with my heart that didn't show up on the EKG. I also had chest pain BTW. After a heart stress test and an echocardiagram they determined that it was low sodium. Low sodium causes the brain to swell, which produced the symptoms I was having. After about 18 hours on a saline drip, I started to feel better and they released me when my sodium level got up to 132. It's supposed to be at least 136. Now, when I feel those symptoms, I take some Himalayan salt crystals and wait it out. That worked yesterday. Also though, they told me I had an electrolyte imbalance and was supposed to pick up some Gatorade. Maybe it's all this that initially caused my heart to go into afib because I've been told salt is a conductor. Anyway, one step at at time to get this sorted out. I just want to feel good again. I haven't felt right since this started and don't know why. It's all been so much to absorb.