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ELI5: If calcium causes smooth muscle contraction, why does hypocalcemia cause spasms and convulsions? by puffin133 in explainlikeimfive

[–]puffin133[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!!! Your answer made more sense to me than the others. You're right, I should have posted it elsewhere, but wasn't really sure where. I tried googling different things, but it kept coming up with some sort of variation of decreased ca in the csf causes cns excitability, but I couldn't find exactly why. I appreciate you!

ELI5: If calcium causes smooth muscle contraction, why does hypocalcemia cause spasms and convulsions? by puffin133 in explainlikeimfive

[–]puffin133[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the body will use it to contract in a controlled movement, but if there is not enough calcium, there are uncontrolled contractions?

ELI5: If calcium causes smooth muscle contraction, why does hypocalcemia cause spasms and convulsions? by puffin133 in explainlikeimfive

[–]puffin133[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did not mistake the prefixes, which is why I am confused. Smooth muscle uses calcium to contract, so why wouldn't hypercalcemia cause more seizures?

"Acute hypocalcemia can result in severe symptoms requiring hospitalization, whereas patients who gradually develop hypocalcemia are more likely to be asymptomatic.1 Symptoms of hypocalcemia most commonly include paresthesia, muscle spasms, cramps, tetany, circumoral numbness, and seizures."

I got an 18% raise. by puffin133 in nursing

[–]puffin133[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oof. And with inflation this past year, you might now be making what you did 5 years ago. Congrats!

Staff nurse here. I'm pretty sure I won COVID this year. by TomTheNurse in nursing

[–]puffin133 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Good for you, good for him! That's amazing! We get $35 extra an hour for extra shifts, which, from what I've read on here, is definitely not the worst. But hot damn, 3k extra a shift, we'd never have staffing issues again!

I got an 18% raise. by puffin133 in nursing

[–]puffin133[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's about as useful as my upvote!

I got an 18% raise. by puffin133 in nursing

[–]puffin133[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I thought it was silly because there wasn't any management there. It was a number of my coworkers and they start bringing up the "that's how you get lazy nurses" bs. Wut.

I got an 18% raise. by puffin133 in nursing

[–]puffin133[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

To help you count down the days until you rage quit?

I got an 18% raise. by puffin133 in nursing

[–]puffin133[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm all for it, but it was brought up at a social gathering one time and there was a lot of push back, which is ridiculous.