Sounds like it was a pretty good experience. So far so good! Increasing salt seems like an interesting suggestion. Not sure I have heard that before.
22 Oct 20 by member: liv001
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We are down to 1) my low sodium diet and 2) chemo messed up my blood vessels as the possible causes of my symptoms. I think it’s POTS and the oncology nurse agreed that it’s POTs or chemo but said salt was easy enough to check. My issue is that I’m just not used to salting my food now. I love salt so I think I’ll just start putting some on my tongue lol. My sodium levels in labs are 139-140 which is right in the mid range of where it should be. Of course the cardiologist said to cut out processed foods with sodium and add salt to ‘natural’ foods instead. That’ll just lower my sodium lol. 🤷♀️ Doesn’t really matter right now since I can’t lift or garden right now.
22 Oct 20 by member: peeperjj
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22 Oct 20 by member: Rosie We Can Do It
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Ohhh on the lifting. That is a drag. I like salt with my sweets LOL.
22 Oct 20 by member: liv001
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I am glad you had a good visit and are keeping careful watch on things. Strangly, increasing salt is the suggestion my girl just got from her cardiologist. She has dizziness and fainting and low blood pressure. She rarely eats processed food and is in a habit of not adding salt to her food. Here's hoping and praying you continue to be cancer free! ❤️
22 Oct 20 by member: melissatwa
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22 Oct 20 by member: TomLong
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Technically the plastics assistant said I could start at 4 weeks and work up and I’m around 5 weeks so I could lift but not much point in going and lifting 20# lol.
22 Oct 20 by member: peeperjj
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Thanks Guys. Melissa, that’s similar to my symptoms except I didn’t actually pass out. I’m able to sit down quickly enough that it doesn’t progress to fainting/passing out. That’s one thing they find odd. 🤷♀️
22 Oct 20 by member: peeperjj
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Tequila shots. great way to get your salt and tequila is a plant, so veggie. in all seriousness, your post reminded me that they actually prescribed my grandfather to take salt with all his meals after he began to suffer from low blood pressure issues in his 70's, so maybe that's not so crazy after all? He lived to 83, so something was working.
22 Oct 20 by member: Katsolo
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Hmmm would margaritas work?? My blood pressure is lower generally. Usually runs around 105-115/60-75. Yesterday it was 157/63!! 😳 I’ve never had it that high. Even in my stress test it only got to like 136/80ish.
22 Oct 20 by member: peeperjj
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Not a doctor, but alcohol is a depressant, so probably not unless it causes you to do crazy things like jump out of planes. That’ll get the heart racing, but hard to stop and get BP. 😳
Sounds like things are going generally well for you. Glad you’re keeping up with it all.
22 Oct 20 by member: Katsolo
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Swelling in lower extremities? Compression stockings of some type mild ones about 20mm
22 Oct 20 by member: Kenna Morton
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it's great you got a good team supporting you.
22 Oct 20 by member: bearnoggin
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Kat, that’s why I don’t drink usually. I have an addictive personality and it basically counteracts my antidepressant/anxiety pill. I do have one on occasion though as the dr said like one a week would be fine. I have like 2-3 every few months lol. Alls well on the health front :).
22 Oct 20 by member: peeperjj
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Kenna, no swelling. The cardiologist checks that when I’ve went in. I do have compression socks that hubby bought by accident so I tried those awhile back thinking they might help but no change. Maybe they only work on swelling. 🤷♀️
22 Oct 20 by member: peeperjj
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Oops that was suppose to be 20mmHg for the socks. So is the swelling in your atms. Refresh’s my memory— breast cancer? You said fluid build up. If not legs, in surgical arm?
22 Oct 20 by member: Kenna Morton
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I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer 11/2/2016. My fluid is in the right breast. We switched out a textured implant to a smooth one because of an increased risk of a rare blood cancer. The new smooth implant ended up getting an infection, well that breast not the implant itself. So we removed it. Took the JP drain out when the output was 10ml per day 6 days after surgery. For some reason I’m having fluid build up again in that breast, or lack there of haha. A friend said I’m doing too much but I’m doing very little honestly. On my phone, reading or watching tv like 12 hours a day. I spend around 3 hours a day doing laundry, cooking and picking up my oldest from practice. The rest of time time I’m sleeping or trying to sleep.
23 Oct 20 by member: peeperjj
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23 Oct 20 by member: SB 428
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Peeper— ok, so you have a seroma that has developed. They drain it and it returns. This is actually a not uncommon problem. Fluid build up in the dead space between the flap and chest wall. Limiting movement of the affected shoulder can help. Have the talked about Octeoride injections or compression dressing. Salt intake probably has nothing to do with it.
23 Oct 20 by member: Kenna Morton
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Kenna, the salt intake is for when I was seeing black spots and getting lightheaded at the gym. Everything got pushed back from this spring because of covid so they are doing everything at one now. It gets confusing! Lol. They told me to use compression but that’s a bit hard. The left side needs loose clothing and the right side needs compression. I tried a wide ace bandage but that compressed the left side too much. Now I just wear a sports bra with 2 foam prosthetics on the right side. It’s slowed down the fluid build up. But I have to take it off when the circulation on the left side gets worse. (Thin skin, very little breast tissue so very little blood flow around the left implant) They told me to be active but not to overdo it. I’ve experimented a bit and nothing I’ve done seems to increase the fluid so far. I’m right handed so I cook, clean etc with that side but I’m trying to do any lifting on my left ‘good’ side until I see the dr again next month.
23 Oct 20 by member: peeperjj
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