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Low sodium levels taking AD's

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Limensoda · 24/07/2019 12:02

Hi,
Since I've been on antidepressants my blood sodium level is too low. The lower limit is 35 and mine was 26. If it goes below 20 it's dangerous apparently. Of course, because I have health anxiety this is really worrying me.
Has anybody else had low sodium or any other bad blood test results?

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thesnapandfartisinfallible · 24/07/2019 17:56

Not that I know of but I find this post interesting as I have some intense cravings for salt since being on them. I don't usually eat nuts at all but have been munching bags of salted peanuts and ready salted crisps like crazy.

Limensoda · 24/07/2019 18:49

@thesnapandfartisinfallible

That's odd, I don't crave salt but everything tastes too salty.

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thesnapandfartisinfallible · 24/07/2019 21:48

That's odd too, you'd think if you were deficient in something, you'd crave it. Mind you I crave milk when I'm low in magnesium for some reason. Only time I drink it, I usually can't stand the taste. Took me forever to make the connection.

But yeah, salt, ever since I started taking them but some ADs I didn't crave it on. Paroxetine was the worst, I was buying chips from mcdonalds and dumping 3 packets of salt on them.

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