Absence Of Salt/Sodium In Urine During Chronic Anxiety Episodes

[DMF]

Don't ask me how I know - but my urine has no saltiness to it during and alittle after these hellish anxiety episodes. It's as if water/fluids are passing right through me bypassing 'necessary' steps - kidneys - liver-spleen...etc leaving what I believe are salts and toxins flowing through my system in places or pathways they otherwise wouldn"t travel when I"m okay
I feel a need to holler and scream for it can feel awefull
Is my fight or flight mechanism >hormones that go with it messed up?
Not happy with what Doc says or pills to treat it.

 

[InterrogaOmnia]

When I used to have panic attacks i would drink salt water. I was always surprised how little i could taste the sodium in a very concentrated solution. Like a tsp of salt in 20oz tasted like plain water. But the more i drank i would gradually start tasting the salt more and more as my adrenaline started coming down. So if you are tasting your urine or something during these episodes consider that.

 

[michael94]

I noticed the same thing, not just low sodium in the urine but also very high ph ( ammonia ? ). Kidney stress is associated with anxiety

 

[DMF]

Yes - and I do feel a certain pressure on both sides where my kidneys are sometimes during these episodes, but not always.
Are the adrenals adversely acting on the kidneys?

 

[michael94]

Yea I think the adrenals kick in when the kidneys are shot and in stress mode

 

[haidut]

Anxiety is tied to elevations of serotonin. The higher serotonin increases sodium loss and decreases the taste for it. People who recover from depression often find they have a newly discovered taste for salty foods. A sodium/magnesium combination has been used clinically in the early 20th century for acute anxiety episodes. The treatment was IV but it was in a hospital and oral one at home may work just as well. I think the ratio in the administered solution was 2:1 in favor of sodium.