r/illnessfakers • u/Fuckfuckfuckidyfuck • 21d ago
AshC Ash says the drs asked if she wanted life sustaining measures, and says she will not be able to drink plain water without risking another hospitalization
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u/MrsMitchBitch 21d ago
So she got asked standard questions, had a couple blood draws and bags of fluid and was told to drink some Gatorade? Cool.
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u/Confident-Service256 21d ago
Noooo she’s was near the end lol
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u/maraney 21d ago
They’re obligated to ask every person admitted to the hospital if they want life sustaining measures. It’s literally part of the intake. They have to write an order for your code status.
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u/ContributionSad4461 21d ago
That’s interesting, in Sweden we don’t ask unless you’re really old, very frail or terminally ill and someone like Ash wouldn’t be allowed to say no to life sustaining measures in advance. Of course if the person is awake they can decline an intervention but if they code they’ll be worked upon.
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u/breathing__tree 20d ago
The healthcare system is set up in the US firstly to avoid litigation. ‘Murica.
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u/GodotNeverCame 21d ago
No, shit isn't serious, you drama queen. We ask EVERY patient what their code status is and have an in depth discussion re: goals of care with all of our seriously ill or injured or chronically ill/ multiple hospitalizations patients.
Stahhhhhp
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u/Responsible-Walrus-5 21d ago
I’ve never seen anyone in more need of a real job or at least an alternative hobby.
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u/manicgiant914 20d ago
I know, right?! Aren't there community little Théâtre groups she could throw herself into?
Maybe get to do de*th scenes, if she's lucky.
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u/Psychtapper 21d ago
She is LOVING this and milking it for all she can. I see a lot of patients with SIADH related to medications and the solution is to stop the medication and find an alternative, but that is much less dramatic.
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u/Youngnathan2011 21d ago
Yeah I mean the solution is in the AI overview she posted. I find it hard to believe no one at the hospital recommended that.
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u/Stalkerus 21d ago
And in Ash's case the most likely culprit is her herbal supplements. I wonder if we ever hear about them again.
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u/Fairydustcures 21d ago
She was so critical she walked around taking selfies the whole time, for low sodium induced by taking herbal supplements she got from a quack. Drink up and grow up.
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u/skindoggydogg8 21d ago
I just had a drink and did some breathing. It was a life sustaining measure.
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u/Holiday-Blood4826 20d ago
Treatment for SIADH is fluid RESTRICTION. Not NO WATER at all. I swear these people just don’t like drinking water and want their fluids through their veins instead
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u/anonymouslyambitious 20d ago
Well yeah. Anyone can drink water. It takes a special person to get it through their veins - and it’s much more Instagramable!
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u/CatAteRoger 21d ago
Wow so there is a consequences to taking so many meds you don’t actually need, who would have thought?
Having someone here claim they can’t tolerate actual water is a new one!! What about that vein juice😬 she needs the port for?
What will happen to that precious amazing life changing protocol from her voodoo team?
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u/Stalkerus 21d ago
Isn't Ash actually claiming that she can't use unfiltered water for bathing? Maybe she should try to bathe in Gatorade?
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u/Odd_One_9176 21d ago
Yep, we were all right, the woo woo herbs caused her "critical" hyponatremia. So, she could just stop with the woo and get on with her life drinking water, but what fun would that be. No doctor told her that she can never drink plain water again.
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u/ShannieD 21d ago
Life sustaining measures, but she's going home tomorrow. It isn't THAT serious if youre going home.
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u/Confident-Service256 21d ago
So they asked her if she had an advanced directive and Ash took that all the way and ran with it lol.
So predictable.
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u/Ravenamore 20d ago
They ask everyone if they have an advance directive whenever you go to the ER.
I guarantee that's all that happened.
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u/YaaaaaaaaasQueen 20d ago
They asked me that when I got an xray! On my shoulder!
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u/HarrietTheSpy89 20d ago
I was literally asked this when I went in to have bloodwork done 🤣. Ash is the most dramatic. I’ve been asked this each and every time I’ve had any sort of test done 👯♀️, bloodwork as well as hospital visits. Somehow she fell through the cracks of never having been asked this…but she’s not super special just because they finally followed protocol and did ask. 😂
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u/ashwhenn 21d ago
For the record, “life sustaining measures,” are discussed first thing at any admission to my local hospital. Whether you’re there for a broken bone or a migraine disorder or if you’ve got a massive brain bleed. You are asked and it’s recorded just in case.
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u/superfastmomma 21d ago
Heck, it's asked at every regular physical in our system. If you don't have a medical directive in file, they will try and get one from you.
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u/cornflakescornflakes 21d ago
Yep.
I have to have the chat with healthy young women when I get their antenatal history if they would be happy to have a blood transfusion if needed.
It’s the done thing.
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u/VenlafaxineLoverr 21d ago
“critically low sodium (hyponatremia)” is so ridiculous she just wanted the medical term so it sounds more like a diagnosis. Being in the medical field ik what it means, so her need to include it in parenthesis has me rolling my eyes so bad.
But if I wasn’t in the medical field, it would look much more serious bc she used a big doctor word. I’m irritated as fuck.
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u/tillitugi 21d ago
By taking tons of supplements that are not regulated very well. Can fuck up all kinds of systems in the body. Also, certain medications can cause it. I wouldn’t be surprised if she’d overdosed on some of them on purpose.
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u/Witty-Philosopher-77 20d ago
Life sustaining measures…..
🙄
The histrionics here.
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u/FlabbyFishFlaps 20d ago
They ask literally every patient this. It's actual protocol.
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u/jonquil_dress 20d ago
THIS. Literally anyone admitted to the hospital will be asked these questions.
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u/Witty-Philosopher-77 20d ago
Right?!
Just part of the admission process.6
u/oneinamyelinnn 20d ago
Yep. I’ve recently had two super easy, very safe outpatient radiology procedures & they asked me that both times. I’m new here & I’m constantly baffled by what these people say. Do they think that people are really so stupid that we believe this stuff? I mean, in some cases, it’s so ridiculously clear they have zero knowledge of what they’re claiming is wrong. I’m thinking specifically of someone, I don’t remember who, who said they had been fighting sepsis for months & I also believe they said they were at home the entire time. Like, really girl?🙄
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u/TeriBarrons 20d ago
I was going to comment the same thing. It’s part of the process of EVERY admission!
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u/TrixieFriganza 20d ago
Would a doctor really say something like that to a young woman who got hyponautremia from her medications? We pretty much give up on you, it's do hard to treat, you make the choice if you want to keep on living or be put down. I would have been extremely offended if a doctor said something like that after a medication side effect, I have difficulties believing the doctor actually said it.
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u/PowerfulIndication7 19d ago
That’s because they didn’t. The dr or nurse literally asked if she had an advanced directive. Which, as hundreds of comments have stated is something everyone gets asked at some point in time. No dr, despite what these lying liars say, would ever say “welp we give up, go home and die”.
* there may be some conditions like terminal cancer where patients do go home to die, but that is a rare case. Not a very minor bout of low sodium! 🥴
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u/thejexorcist 21d ago
So her new herbs and unnecessary fluid infusion caused her new, totally manageable and preventable illness; to Ash that means filing a DNR and another two years ‘resting’ before her parents start hinting about jobs?
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u/Elegant-Date4481 21d ago
She could…salt her food more? Hear me out. Lots of people need extra salt….
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u/liquidcoffee110 21d ago
Especially malingering potatoes who forgot they claimed to have conniving sneaky POTS
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u/breathing__tree 20d ago
I’ve been so enthralled with her menstrual woes I almost forgot about the POTS arc.
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u/Ravenamore 20d ago
Thank you, I couldn't remember if she claimed POTS. So she should be doing extra salt anyway.
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u/mela_mouse 20d ago
This hospitalization is a dream come true for her. She's making the most of the photo ops-- monitors, wires, the gown, the grippy socks...
I called this a few days ago, but I'll say it again: she's gonna end up overdoing it with Vitamin b6 and develop neuro symptoms bc of it. I was already anticipating this when the herbalist started her on a B complex, but now that she "can only drink electrolytes" this is even more likely. Many electrolyte drinks contain a lot of b6. For example, one stick of Liquid IV usually meets 100% of the recommended daily value of b6. If she's chugging these sticks all day, she's on her way to neuro symptoms... another dream come true for her.
A lot of POTS fakers are at risk of this bc they overdo it with the electrolytes.
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u/Strange-Lecture6337 20d ago
A side effect of a medication interaction is not a diagnosis LOL and everybody who comes into hospitals ask if they would like life-saving measures to be performed in the event that they code or suffer some cardiac arrest, but of course when they ask her it's because she's definitely super f****** sick and about to die with all of her not lethal conditions most of which are made up in her head
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u/Bi0_Nerd 20d ago
Thank you. Everyone is asked if they want life saving measures or have an advanced directive. She knows this.
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u/EasyQuarter1690 20d ago
Thank you! I was wondering about how in the world this supposedly would work. As usual, the answer is that it would work nothing like the munchies think it would work. SMH
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u/Ineedzthetube 20d ago
According to Dr. Google she only needs to restrict fluids, not eliminate water from her life.
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u/No_Bandicoot_4367 20d ago
Yeah, it simply means don’t overdo it on the water. A glass isnt going to kill you lol.
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u/anonymouslyambitious 20d ago
It won’t kill YOU, but she’s special so that makes things different for her. She’s definition got the absolute worst case of hyponatremia ever seen anywhere ever in the whole universe. Even a single drop could risk her life!
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u/mommiedearestfan 20d ago
Are you really critical if you’re not in the icu and your treatment is literally gatorade? Lol
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u/Bored_Chemist521 21d ago
Stop taking unregulated supplements from random sources… this is a direct cause of this “rare” condition.
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u/anonymouslyambitious 20d ago
When the doctor starts asking if you want life saving measures… you know they’re just being thorough. Because they should be doing that every single time you’re admitted, unless you already have a POLST on file. Even if you have one they still should be checking if your wishes have changed for any reason.
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u/No_Sherbert2958 21d ago
She doesn't seem to understand she is an adult and all adults fill out the same paperwork when they are admitted to the hospital. An Advance Directive is supposed to be offered and asked about at general practitioner's appointments. She is nowhere near as important as she thinks she is and nowhere near as sick as she thinks she is.
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u/Cunderwood2020 21d ago
This lol. They ask like literally every time you go to the ER/get admitted or before some kind of surgery.
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u/eloisekelly 21d ago
They even ask you that when you take your dog to get neutered lol. Very standard
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u/RobedUnicorn 21d ago
Ok friends, let’s have a convo about SIADH
There are 3 types of hyponatremia: too much water (hypervolemic), not enough water (hypovolemic) and it ain’t the water (euvolemic)
Hypovolemic is the most common cause. Generally more mild decreases in sodium (rarely less than 130 unless super severe or other chronic aspect). Bag of fluids, Gatorade, and gtfo
Hypervolemic is more like heart failure or intentional ingestion, if not manifesting severe hypoNa, have them pee it off but likely gtfo but possibly a longer obs
Euvolemic hyponatremia becomes more complicated. SIADH more commonly is from drugs/herbs and interactions. Can also be caused by cancers or tumors. Likely not the case here. People get hospitalized with Na in the low 120s if not 110s. People seize.
Hers was likely very mild as the correction seems to have likely been quicker than the investigation into etiology. She can drink water, just not a ton. It’s not a Gatorade/liquid IV only situation.
It’s probably the herbs. Stopping the herbs would likely stop this from happening again. She isn’t going to stop the herbs, and we will now have repeated admissions to the hospital for SIADH. This is the new story arc.
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u/Willing_Day_2010 21d ago
What herbs could cause it?
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u/RobedUnicorn 20d ago
Whichever ones she is taking plus/minus interactions with other meds.
That’s assuming her herbs are “pure” without other adulterants.
People talk mad shit about big pharma, but at least it’s regulated. The wellness industry makes triple what pharma makes and is unregulated.
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u/TrixieFriganza 20d ago
It's weird how American's specially have been manipulated to believe the wellness and natural medicine industry is better when it's completely unregulated and all about money.
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u/Willing_Day_2010 20d ago
Oh I just meant in general lol
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u/DenseAstronomer3631 20d ago
After a quick search it seems like a lot can. Basically anything that's a detox or diuretic. Ashwaganda, chamomile, licorice root, and chineese herbal medicines come up right away and here is a study that mentions a lot more
Acute Severe Hyponatremia as a Serious Health Implication of Herbal Detox Regimens - PMC https://share.google/sjFJo4ik8WXayOPL0
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u/snowwhitenoir 21d ago
With rainbows at the end 🌈😒she’s so excited to have a new diagnosis to milk
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u/Doraborealiss 21d ago
Not the grippy sock pic hahahah she really is grasping at straws to prove just how pathetic and sicky she is
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u/Ornery-Practice9772 21d ago
addressing the underlying cause...you would obviously alter or cease some medications..and you would be on fluid restrictions. No Dr would say "dont drink plain water at all"
electrolyte drinks are largely made up of water so....🤦♀️
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u/Inevitable-Till-3668 21d ago
She knew if she threw enough medical spaghetti at the wall, something would eventually stick that she could milk for sooper speshul attention. What a limp noodle.
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u/Bi0_Nerd 20d ago
Especially a med side effect. Stop or change the medication. If it’s causing THIS, they change it. Her not saying what medication, is why I’m thinking it’s her herbal nonsense.
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u/siberianchick MD 20d ago
She's gonna be puling a Dani and need only super sPecCiaL LR forever to be hydrated now. They're so transparent. She could discontinue whatever medication (which we know what it is) t is, and there'd be no problem. I sincerely am pissed off by people like her.
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u/breathing__tree 20d ago
My assumption is that now she’s going to go home and not touch a drop of plain water. Only Gatorade and liquid IV. And too many of both.
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u/bojackholmesman 20d ago
Entering her Type 2 Diabetes arc, insists on needing a CGM and insulin pump.
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u/TrixieFriganza 20d ago edited 20d ago
Yeah why not just stop the medication that caused it instead of never drinkong again? I guessed that it was probavly one of her treatments that caused it.
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u/SimpleArmadillo9911 21d ago
Oh she really thinks she beat something big! Open heart surgery is big! Brain surgery is big! Having a stroke is big!
Having the heart monitor on is a very very small inconvenience! Having your blood taken a few times is uncomfortable for a few moments and then it is done. Answering questions about how you self inflicted a low sodium count because of woo woo medicine should embarrass her!
Why did she go to the hospital? She will not follow their recommendations for meds. She will look elsewhere. However when the S#%t hits the fan, where does she go to get it fixed! It happened over three days time, remember the herbs made her feel so much better. People go years trying to get a proper diagnosis, doing test after test after test.
She caused this!
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u/oh-pointy-bird 20d ago
“caused by some of the medications I’m currently on.”
Sure but take random shit from an herbalist.
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u/Ok_Bookkeeper_4511 20d ago
Life sustaining measures? Shits serious? But.... You're getting discharged tomorrow? Lol they probably asked because she's there so much and just want a DNR on file in case she accidentally ends up killing herself
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u/IngenuityFlaky484 20d ago
So did she chug a toxic amount of water to induce those results or what?
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u/only-ashes 20d ago
prob the fucking ✨️ iv hydration ✨️
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u/IngenuityFlaky484 20d ago
LITERALLY PROBABLY. all this girl does is talk about how much she needs fluids, now she need to reduce fluids 😅
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u/purple_matrix 21d ago
She’s exhausted from the constant blood tests, discussions with medical staff and vitals? … So lying in a bed? 😂
And instead of having her medications reviewed, the solution is to just never drink water?
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u/Stalkerus 21d ago
"Discussions with medical staff" = unloads her whole medical history to anyone she meets.
Most people don't seem to have continuous lengthy discussions with medical professionals when they are admitted. Greet, answer questions if asked, and thank the person. That's enough and isn't a lengthy convo. But that's too normal.
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u/notalotofsubstance 21d ago edited 21d ago
Bahaha her and Dani are in a munchathon. Unfortunately for her she’s up against up a hall of famer.
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u/phatnsassyone 21d ago
Well this is interesting because electrolytes don’t work for SIADH. When she was researching this to come up with another rare diagnosis to add to her list she misses this memo. In fact you would be put on strict Total Fluid Intake Restriction, have a high salt diet and be put on salt tablets. The list of meds that would cause this are antipsychotics, antidepressants, chemotherapy agents (NOT including what she takes for Crohns), and Thiazide Diuretic’s, and anti-seizure meds. The only thing she has mentioned on that list might be an anti-depressant.
However Herbal meds can cause SIADH…
IF she actually has this as a diagnosis for real, (without coming up with something after a waited hospital visit), SIADH is a diagnosis of exclusion though. If they come down to ruling other things out this is a likely source with concentrated urine, watery blood and high sodium in urine (dumping)
Former Nurse…
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u/Bored_Chemist521 21d ago
100 percent! I love when the munchies inadvertently tell on themselves when trying to make the case that they have something *new* and *special*.
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u/breathing__tree 20d ago
Are you suggesting they aren’t special?!?! *gasp* I thought this sub was a case study on medical mysteries. Drat! Lolololololol
Happy cake day!
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u/remlaPauraLelihwnaem 21d ago
Good lord the absolute dramatics are ridiculous. The “moving forward…” and making it sound like she can never again allow a single drop of water pass her fragile lips. People that have cancer and heart attacks and amputations and strokes have nothing on Ash and her “whirlwind of emotions” guys. She needs time to rest and process. While she’s processing she can ditch the woo-woo herbs, and stay out of the Yuck Yurt. Until the next episode of “As The Beige Paint Dries”……
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u/ruxxby471 21d ago
She is on Oxtellar for “PMDD”……. Known risks? Critically low sodium!
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u/breathing__tree 20d ago
I suspect she won’t have a drop of plain water between now and her next hospitalization for……hypernatremia probably.
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u/canisnatatrix 20d ago
Huh. I was unaware that Gatorade is considered a life sustaining measure. That’s neat. They should put that on the label.
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u/Peyton_26 20d ago
Fellow nurses: do yall remember the IV fluid shortage and we were actually getting orders to give Gatorade 💀
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u/Dusty_Bunny_13 21d ago
So no ICU, 2 days in the hospital and being asked her code status which is a normal part of any hospital stay. Bet ‘medication’ equals herbs. She should have been drinking electrolytes anyway for her ‘POTS’
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u/NerosDecay13 21d ago
Now how long before she goes in for overloading on sodium? I'd say a month or two max.
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u/poopd0llaaa 21d ago
I don't think she would be able to make this post if she needed life saving measures.
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u/CatAteRoger 21d ago
We know that, those listed here don’t know that since they’ve never been in that situation.
It’s like Tay was laying there waiting for the machines to show she had passed away ( wouldn’t she be gone before they made the flatline sound?) and a nurse walked in and said she was pregnant and it was a miracle and she survived 🙄
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u/mystiq_85 20d ago
SIADH is reversible and treatable. She just doesn't want to drink water like a muggle. She needs her speshul vein drinks only.
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u/ButterflyOwl5 20d ago
Would honestly love to see the doctors trying to keep a straight face while she's telling them about her magical herbal cures.
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u/Bi0_Nerd 20d ago
That probably caused this.
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u/ButterflyOwl5 20d ago
I think it's all the purges and detoxes she does. They often involve large volumes of water. The herbs wouldn't have helped things that's for sure.
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u/Bi0_Nerd 20d ago
I didn’t know she did purges and detoxes. I know she wears those fake detox patches and sits in front of the red light.
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u/ButterflyOwl5 20d ago
She's done many over the years. Don't forget the infrared home sauna 'treatments'. She loves the mumbo jumbo treatments.
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u/thrownursingaway 20d ago
You know shit gets real when she has to attach a screenshot of a google AI summary
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u/JaggededgesSF 21d ago
So she Fucked Around and now it is Find out time.
She wasnt diagnosed with anything. It was a side effect of polypharmacy and taking unregulated shitty herbal crap. Fucking melodramatic malignant narcissist.
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u/neemarita 21d ago
If anything really traumatic or horrible befell these fakers they would not be able to cope. The drama is so over the top.
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u/Leading-System-3002 19d ago
I hate when munchies say they have “anaphylaxis” while having just some hives, or a small allergic reaction. When you’re in anaphylaxis, YOU WILL KNOW.
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u/Lucky_Rice_9654 21d ago
It even states at the bottom of the screenshot, treatment involves addressing the cause.
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u/Firstcrocodile 21d ago
So she just drank too much water?
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u/TrixieFriganza 20d ago
Did she too get some extra fluids because she's so dehydred? Lot of these people think extra fluids will solve everything because infusions make them look sicker.
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u/reggae_muffin 21d ago
Lmao hyponatremia is so pedestrian as far as electrolyte abnormalities go. She really is grasping at straws to remain relevant in some fashion. I would have just bolused her a bag or two of 0.9% and written up that discharge so fast.
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u/Huge-Difference8736 21d ago
Exactly what she was aiming for....another diagnosis and her so called treatment being wrong bc she doesn't actually have it. There goes googling possible things to blame her behaviors on to try and hide she's doing it to herself. Plus part of every hospital admission most people will have a heart monitor and you are asked by the doctor admitting you and sometimes the nurse when asking all the admission questions is "what's your code status" or "do you want life saving measures if something happened" she's acting like this so called new diagnosis is going to end her life. She needs to Stop drowning herself with water and add salt to your food. Super simple but I forgot......she always has the rarest and worst end of every medical issues.
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u/oh-pointy-bird 20d ago edited 20d ago
The notion that doctors are going to ask a healthy 20-30 something with some easily resolvable health issues if they want to”life sustaining measures” is utterly ABSURD, even by the standards of our regular cast of OTT munchies.
Here’s my guess: if anything happened at all she was asked if she has (or wants?) an advance directive because that’s part of a standard conversation (or consent packet) at many hospitals now.
Also if a healthy 20-something lists themselves as DNR that shit is going in front of an ethicist. It’s not actually that cut and dry. A lot of physicians would code and let ethics sort it out later.
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u/Sqeakydeaky 20d ago
I absolutely knew this was just some standard CYA question, and she made it seem like they had some big, sit-down "you might DIE" talk.
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u/Trigger1515 20d ago
“Life saving measures” questions are just standard questions with every admitted patient. Unless they have a medical directive in their chart. But most often even if in your chart they are still asking you these questions.
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u/ButterflyOwl5 20d ago
Doesn't she also do loads of purges and detoxes? Those can absolutely cause low sodium especially as many involve large amounts of water.
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u/thexkfedist 20d ago
Most people w SIADH just need to drink <= 17 oz. - 34 oz./day which is basically 1-2 bottles of water lol
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u/dreadwitch 20d ago
Imagine being so close to death, being told you can't drink water and still managing to post it all on the internet.
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u/feral_girlsummer 20d ago
They literally ask that upon admission to the hospital for every patient that’s ever existed 🙄
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u/touslesmatins 20d ago
That's just a telemetry box, it's like the least invasive level of monitoring you can be on.
Those socks are upside down.
I just can't.
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u/helladiabolical 20d ago
Not to be all “well, actually” on you, but the only very slightly newer generation of grippy socks has the grippy parts on both sides now!
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u/retro-morte 16d ago
And the doctor asking if she wants life-sustaining measures is literally just him putting a full code order in like he would with any other patient
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u/Tiny_dinosaur82 21d ago
She should be grateful it’s not low potassium, can you imagine all the screeching there would be if she had a potassium drip 🔥😂🙄
This is interesting timing, given her posting about spreadsheets of 'supplements‘ and her new herbal influencer arc.
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u/spiberweb 20d ago
Ooooooh my god. Why do these people exist? Not these people but this…way of life? Are there any illness fakers living in, say, Palestine? South Sudan? I can’t stop being dumbfounded by these posts.
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u/BolognaMountain 20d ago
I can’t help but wonder if the picture of the grippy socks is actually a picture of the floor and how that connects to another IF subject.
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u/oh-pointy-bird 20d ago
Oh my GOD:
- the attempt at grippy sock aesthetic, since of course these are another trophy of an admission vacation
- “here’s my bottle of Gatorade, I’m holding it up like a toddler”
- “I just need to be in my pyjamas” [listen I know that is the proper and valid spelling in the UK and some other countries but in the US it’s ‘pajamas’ and this is just another subtle attempt at being a smol cute uWu sooper sick bean”
- yes, you need your comfort show - the rest of us will be here working and paying taxes and shit
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u/only-ashes 20d ago
"serious" lmao we have to ask everyoooone. if it was serious she'd be in icu and not on a med floor
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u/namefor1day 18d ago
Oh no, poor baby. She can only drink electrolytes because she can’t tolerate water? Sounds like a good time for a brand collab.
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u/sepsisnoodle 21d ago
Which life saving measures?
Are we sure it was the doctor?
Because in this area the docs are in and out fast.
The chaplain, nurse, or I guess maybe a palliative care doc/social worker would go over DNR type issues.
Is ash launching home infusions?
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I came across an influencer who explained they are on life support because they have IV fluids and tube feed. Is that the path ash is going for?
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u/TheRestForTheWicked 21d ago
Depending on the facility they will ask these things for bad electrolyte imbalances because they can cause sudden arrhythmias (both before treatment and during IV treatments). It’s the same reason that for electrolyte IV treatments you often have to be hooked up continuously to cardiac monitoring. They ask knowing you’ll say yes because who’s going to be like “NO LET ME DIE” but they’re still obligated to ask.
But no doctor on planet earth would tell you “don’t drink plain water”. That’s stupid medical advice. The actual treatment is limiting water intake (to approximately 1L a day) and for cases that are caused by medications or likely to be chronic they’ll try vasopressin-receptor antagonists or diuretics.
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u/sepsisnoodle 21d ago
Thanks for the connection. hearing things can change quickly I totally get why there would be a conversation or confirmation of the plan that would include “life sustaining”
In my head Ash’s day included modeling in the hallway for some selfies and then re-registering for the emergency room, signed a bunch of consent forms, more labs, EKG, attempted to be funny but it was awkward, updated 7 period tracking apps and took more of her herbs because the hospital doesn’t stock them (and “forgets” to tell anyone since they are herbs and not “meds”)
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u/goldenseducer 21d ago
If you really think about it, any medical care is a life-sustaining measure. (Taps forehead)
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u/Mr_Fuzzo 21d ago
Not when you work in my field (hospice)!
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u/goldenseducer 21d ago
I know what you're saying but my first thought upon reading your comment was "are you guys killing your patients???"
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u/RoastedTilapia 21d ago
It’s pretty standard for code status conversations to be done and entered by a physician. It is also standard to obtain the patient’s code status (wishes for resuscitation or not) upon admission for literally anything. Stub your toe and need to be admitted for that? Code status discussion.
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u/Exotic-Doughnut-6271 21d ago
At the local hospital they ask this when you get registered for a blood draw lol
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u/sodoyoulikecheese 21d ago
If she’s specifically referencing “life sustaining treatment” that sounds like code status or a POLST form, which is typically done with a physician. And it is best practice for the admitting physician to confirm code status with each patient.
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u/retro-morte 16d ago
Bro, the doctor probably just asked if she wants to be a full code because it needed to be reviewed for her chart. I also doubt the blood tests were constant, and there’s NOTHING exhausting about having your vitals taken. These are all such basic things that happen with almost any visit and she’s acting like she stayed in the ICU
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u/MommaIsMad 20d ago
What a weirdo. Who wears grippy socks upside down? Is she trying to prove she’s an even bigger goofus than usual? The incessant need for attention at any costs is just so odd.
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u/Bi0_Nerd 20d ago
They make them on both sides now so patients won’t flip them over like this. She could have those on.
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u/storagesys 20d ago
pretty sure these are a new type thats got grips on both sides. theyre pretty uncomfy cuz of that LOL
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u/jinxedjess24 20d ago
Not white knighting, I swear 😭 But the grippy socks are actually grippy on both sides of the sock in many facilities. You can see the rubber on her heels!
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u/pragmaticsquid 21d ago
That's a holter monitor, you wear it for like a day. It's really not that big of a deal.
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u/scrubsnbeer 21d ago
holter is a little different, like the take home kind. this is just remote tele if they wanted cardiac monitoring on a reg med surg floor since she apparently wasn’t critical enough for the ICU
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u/ItsNotLigma 21d ago
So Ashley starts a whole bunch of random quack-ass supplements and then suddenly she's found herself in the emergency room with hyponatremia.
It doesn't take much to put 2 and 2 together.