00:00But the troponin levels because Luke's wanting to check the troponin levels
00:04that's apparently the sign of whether you've had a heart attack or not and my
00:07troponin levels really went up high but I think it's because my heart just
00:11got the equivalent of bruised because I was
00:14low on oxygen during the seizure so hopefully my heart muscle's just been a
00:19little bit bruised and not actually died which is what
00:22happens in a heart attack so now today we just have to check
00:27um how the salt levels are going and how the potassium levels are going to see
00:31hopefully if we're keeping them under control
00:35hyponatrium i think that's how you pronounce it i keep getting it wrong
00:39is a life-threatening condition actually so if your salt is too low
00:45which mine was mine was in the clinical range of being too low
00:49so i've been um drinking you know it's not an ad for any one particular
00:54hydrolite brand obviously but i've been sort of swapping and
00:58changing something having a gatorade um and then i've got a powdered formula
01:03as well with no added sugar that's got the potassium the sodium
01:07um the chloride but um i'm still lightheaded i'm still sort of struggling
01:12with quite a bit of lightheadedness and um also headaches and sort of faint
01:19feeling like like even this morning it was a weird feeling i wanted to sort of turn
01:23around and it almost felt like the floor was slipping under me like it was sort
01:27of a bit strange and i've got to be honest it's frightening me
01:31like i'm frightened to be at home alone with spencer at the moment because
01:35you know if i had another seizure and it was just me and spencer at home that's
01:38obviously a really bad situation
01:47oh relax or just keep it oh yeah yeah yeah you tell me what to do
01:52my veins false advertise a little bit though like they look really good
01:56but they slip away so um i've just had a blood test just then and now we're checking the sodium levels
02:02and also potassium levels and um checking liver function and also checking troponin levels
02:19so when um when they brought me into ed and i had a second seizure which is when they then took me
02:44into the resus area all the blood tests and and everything they sort of quickly did on me showed
02:51that my troponin levels had gone really sky high and troponin levels is unfortunately an indicator of
02:58a heart attack which is terrible news but thankfully in my situation it looks like
03:06the troponin levels went up because my heart muscles been bruised and that's probably because
03:10a lack of lack of lack of oxygen so as i was lying there on the floor at home because of course where
03:16by the time luke found me i i was already turning purple so my my breathing was um compromised and as
03:24soon as he turned me on as soon as luke turned me on to the side and cleared my airways then my breathing
03:30started to improve again but it it would appear that i was oxygen deprived for a little while so that's
03:38probably why the troponin levels have gone up and what it does is it sort of um luke described it
03:43really well actually he said that it's like my heart muscles had a really big punch and so part of
03:49the muscle is really bruised as opposed to an actual heart attack where part of the muscle actually dies
03:57so they've done a cardio echogram they've done an initial ct scan so they can't see any huge brain
04:02tumors or anything which is a really big relief so at this point they really are veering towards the fact
04:08that i really was it really was low salt and i didn't realize how important salt was for neural
04:14connections so if you think of neural connections talking to each other through the electrical signals
04:22salt is a is a really key component of that sort of um chemical reaction that's going on so to be low in
04:30that is a is a classic trigger for seizures so anyway today i've had this blood test so we're continuing
04:36along with this i guess um you could i was sort of hoping that a couple of days of just slugging big
04:42bottles of gatorade might just sort of you know fix everything i guess but it turns out that recovery
04:48is a little bit slower than i would have liked okay just hold up please thank you so much that's really
04:53cool look i genuinely didn't feel that blood tests are going to be our best friend just to see what those
04:58levels are doing and really watching my diet um really watching that i'm not drinking too much
05:05water called water intoxication so even if i feel thirsty it may not be it might just be a bit of a
05:11dry mouth and i'm also really looking at the color of my urine like i know that that doesn't sound all
05:17that great but in hospital they restricted me for for um 24 hours on 1.2 liters of water and
05:26anyone that knows me knows i can actually drink 1.2 liters of water in an hour so to have that over
05:3424 hours the urine i was the my urine output it was a color i'd never seen before as in it was dark
05:44so now whenever it's getting too pale and i'm feeling lightheaded i sort of watch i sort of think to
05:50myself oh perhaps i'm sort of lapsing into that drinking too much fluid so i'm diluting whatever salt
05:55is in my body and i'm also eating salted peanuts and um just just trying to have a bit more of a
06:02balanced diet so look i'm you know really passionate about this this is another medical topic that's come
06:08up that we can cover and yes hyponatremia i i really hope i'm pronouncing that right i'm very sorry if i'm
06:16not but basically in lactation or in breastfeeding is a thing that can happen to women so and it's happened
06:24to me so i will continue to keep you updated on on how this goes and hopefully i'll be able to get my
06:30body back in some sort of balance again
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