hi everyone
I’m just going through my last lot of blood results..
ESR 1mm/hr
Neutrophils 8.10 (2.1 - 7.4)
Lymphocyte count 0.98 (1 - 3.6)
Sodium 128 (should be 135+).
Are these anything to be concerned about? My GP wasn’t worried - but just said he’ll recheck the sodium in December 🤔
(Apparently I carry an MGUS protein - which needs to be checked annually, the same as my high serum ferritin level). I am a carrier for haemochromotosis.
I can always rely on you wise ones.
I don’t think my doctor would be worried at those results, although sodium is a bit low, have a few pizzas!!
Ha, I don’t like pizza, piglette🤣
I must admit, neither do I but I am told everyone else does. What about Smoked, cured, salted or canned meat, fish or poultry including bacon, cold cuts, ham, frankfurters, sausage, sardines, caviar and anchovies?
I do sound miss goody two shoes, and I’m certainly never that, but we never eat anything processed in the frankfurters/tinned meat line etc, although we have lots of tinned tuna, sardines and eat a fair bit of smoked mackerel.
I guess if we took notice of every single article about what’s good and bad for you then we’d never eat anything would we. Ha
Is that a blanket "don't like pizza" or is it "don't like USA/UK pizza"?
pizzas are a complete no-no as I dislike cheese, whether USA or Uk. Wish I did like them tbh….
Ah - then visit me! There is a traditional pizza in Italy made without cheese and our pizzeria in the village will add anything you like to it - what my daughter has when she's here, she's vegan. Sometimes she takes her vegan stuff to add to it.
I don’t like origano!
All very civilised here - if you don't want something added - it isn't. And Miludi knows what he is putting in his pizzas!
I don't like the pizza base either and I am not very fond of cooked tomatoes! I like anchovies though.
I don't like UK pizza bases - with a few exceptions in real Italian-run places. Far too thick. But they do other stuff too. And the wine is good 
Nothing to be worried about except MAYBE the sodium level though having symptoms of low sodium is more meaningful.
I know people who be over the moon with an ESR of 1. Neutrophils go up when you are on pred.
0.98 is near enough 1. - but together with the low sodium, are you on a very low dose of pred?
oops! 4.5 mg
If you click the little arrow at the end of your post where it says More, you will find an edit option.
And you can get a little more salt by sprinking some on a salad or, really, almost anything edible. 
I totally get what you’re saying, HeronNS, but I guess I’ve always kept salt and salty things to an absolute minimum, thinking that salt has a tendency to increase your blood pressure. You can’t win, can you🙄
I've written elsewhere in the forum about my experience with an apparent salt deficiency, so won't repeat whole story here, but I was like you, keeping my salt intake to a minimum. When I started pred one thing I did was eliminate a lot of prepared foods, like pizza, and after a couple of years I guess this led to my not taking in enough salt to maintain health. I used an online tool to count my salt intake, overestimating when in doubt, and was only getting about 900 mg daily. Morning headaches, which I think was the last and most debilitating of my salt deficiency symptoms, certainly the most obvious, disappeared when I started to salt my food. They actually return if I don't, as I've recently discovered. As I may be developing a heart issue (investigations proceeding very slowly so they can't be too serious or I'd be dead by now) I thought I'd cut the salt somewhat, but.... guess what? Morning headaches! And elevated blood pressure! So there has to be a happy medium somewhere. Salt is necessary for life.
thanks for all that, HeronNS. Very interesting reading.
Funnily enough i sometimes wake up with a slight headache. Right: where’s the salt!🤣
😂😂
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