Comment on Entering hyperspace
unknown@piefed.social 11 hours agoWhat was the sweat test like? Did they just end up being like, "Yep, you're all hot and sweaty now. Looks like you weren't lying about that." and that was it?
My heat regulation is completely borked and I pour with sweat if I am moving around for long enough to warm up, it's awful. I'm on 5 to 10 litres of water a day, depending on if I'm able to get up and do stuff that day or not, I think I'd die of dehydration if I was only on 3.
Guessing all the electrolytes you're taking help with retaining the water though? I should look into that, there's only so much salty popcorn I can eat.
It does help me keep volume, definitely. I found ones called “vitassium”. They have 500mg of sodium, 100mg of potassium per pill. That seems to work ok with 3L, so it should help reduce your intake.
It’s kind of weird to think about though. All my life I had to listen to my family having too high blood pressure so I got used to not eating salt.
Well that backfired.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The sweat test was awful. You basically wear your underwear, lie down in what amounts to a glass oven, then they spread sand all over your and you sit still for an hour and bake. Then they take a picture at the end.
And purple means sweat, yellow means no sweat. It shows what sweat glands activated by the autonomic nervous system. Then you have to shower it off and it takes forever.
They were very professional about it though, it was a nurse, a doc, and technician. I guess they were doing multiple tests at the same time, but I never saw other people doing it. Which was a relief I didn’t really want to see other purple people
unknown@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Ugh, I would have been a miserable puddle of sensory overload. Kinda glad the nhs doesn't have the budget for that kind of thing now.
As far as I know I'm the only one without high blood pressure in my family too, it's weird how stress can break us so differently despite the shared genes.
Thank you for the Vitassium link!
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I was in a miserable puddle of sensory overload. 15 years after the test I started learning that yeah I’m probably ASD, and there’s a strange correlation with ASD and POTS. Neuron magic.
And no problem with that yeah.