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Hi Dan, Was just reading up on some of my blood test results, My serum sodium is slightly out.

Anyway, when you get your blood results back, check that one?

If you have high serum sodium, it can cause dizziness on getting up and is called hypernatremia :

This can be from :

Not drinking enough water and therefore - Dehydration
Eating too much salt
Some drugs
Hyperventilation (breathing too fast)
or a loss of body fluids from prolonged vomiting, diarrhea, sweating or high fevers.

You may not have any symptoms, unless your blood sodium levels are significantly elevated, but you could get :

Dizziness when you stand up or change positions (you may be dehydrated).
Severe sweating or fever; vomiting and diarrhea with markedly elevated sodium levels, if your hypernatremia is due to a loss of body fluids.

Advise :


Sodium levels must be corrected carefully. If you have a very high sodium level, your healthcare provider will cautiously correct the levels, to a "safe level."

It is important that you stay well hydrated if blood test results show that you have Hypernatremia. Drink two to three quarts of fluid every 24 hours, unless you are instructed otherwise.

Avoid caffeine and alcohol, as these can cause you to have electrolyte disturbances.

You may not have Sodium out of balance, but it's generally handy info anyway I feel .

Susie

Dan wrote: Day 27.
Went for a blood test today, will get the results next week.

My dizziness got worse, today spent most of the day on the sofa. The room doesn't spin around, but when I start to move, I feel like on the rocking boat.

the same here today and I drink enough so dont know WHATS UP

Thanks LG.
I drink a lot of water on tx.

I'm not sure if serum sodium is part of the ordinary test, but I don't think I'm dehydrated.

I feel buzzing sensations in my legs as well. As some people described in this forum, feels like mobile phone vibrates.

It is possibly due to storm, which comes to UK .

"I'm not sure if serum sodium is part of the ordinary test"

My serum sodium is part of the 'normal' LFT done at my GP surgery. The full bloods weren't that 'full' compared to hospitals ones.

Mine showed that I may have drunk too much water - Results low. Oddly, I was advised to drink alot of water before a blood test to help them get the sample, I downed a few glasses before heading off to the Drs and drank a glass in the surgery !

May be worth checking anyway, if it comes back in your results.

B12 deficiency can also cause many problems - and can show up in Haemoglobin count.

Yep, the weather is coming !

Dan wrote: Thanks LG.
I drink a lot of water on tx.

I'm not sure if serum sodium is part of the ordinary test, but I don't think I'm dehydrated.

I feel buzzing sensations in my legs as well. As some people described in this forum, feels like mobile phone vibrates.

It is possibly due to storm, which comes to UK .

Do you have Blood pressure or are you on those meds ?

Hi Dabara, I thought I may have high BP, oddly, as it has been low if anything over recent years but I took my own BP at the GP office, not sure if I did it right & I had just walked up a hill, but it was high. Ex consultant also noticed a tachycardia, so just trying to check-out this stuff in general.

Now, each time I visit the nurse or GP I am asking them to take it to try to get a general picture. So far, one nice & low and another yesterday, the nurse said it was 'ok' but wouldn't tell me what it was (secretive style nurse!)

Also had an ECG yesterday, Nurse wouldn't tell me results, will need to ring GP.

So happy my GP is being so supportive.

Suggest on every visit you have to any medic, ask them to take yours, doesn't take long and so far, when I've asked, they do it with a smile.

I have the dizziness, but i had it before treatment too. maybe it is related to the liver

Have you checked your VitB12?
Apparently lack of, can cause nervous system disorders, as can the virus.
You know I also have 'buzzing phone syndrome' along with muscle wasting, My recent bloods show a possible lack of VitB12 and / or Folic Acid, I eat tons of leafy green veg, but according to what I have read, they may not be absorbing correctly.

Get those organic greens down you

It may help, you never know and can't do any harm.

Yes, it was 350 the norm 200 to 600

My results changed between (end) Oct and Dec - Along with other results like platelets, serum sodium, VL and Alt

LondonGirl wrote: My recent bloods show a possible lack of VitB12 and / or Folic Acid, I eat tons of leafy green veg, but according to what I have read, they may not be absorbing correctly.

It's hard to get enough B12 from vegetable sources.

yes, true Sonix, but it's also easy to forget to eat enough

I read suppliments aren't much good either if you're seriously defficient & have pernitious anemia (not sure spelling) or the like and will need injections- mine are not so bad, but I definitely feel better for an organic juice at my local juice place, it's pure rocket fuel

Its the Harvoni causing it for me and the Higher than normal BP. I have meds for BP since long but this dizzyness is new with a constant dull heavy heady feeling. Similar to being stoned but not much fun I,d rather be stoned than on Harvoni

Darbara

My BP is fine, although it fluctuate from low norm to high norm.

I had my dizziness before tx as well, but felt much better. At the moment it is very difficult to get out of the house.

Darbara are you on original Harvoni?

Dan you have been almost und at one week. VL 29. If your dizziness gets worse you can interupt at 8 weeks by consulting with your doc. 8 week is still a high cure rate.