Post what you're thinking right now.

[odeon]

 :lol:

[Frolic_Fun]

Fine, tell everyone how I'm scum and do some silly smear campaign.

[Blasted]

You must think extremely highly of yourself if you think I can be arsed to, I dunno, PM everyone on here and tell them what a shite you are  I've moved on Shleed but it seems like both you and Pea can't stop whining about what happened    I've lost two friends and moved on.  Plenty more people in London to befriend 

[Parts]

Who cares?

[Frolic_Fun]

Eh? I rarely mentioned a word until now.

If you don't want to, that's fine. I can't be arsed with any more unnecessary drama.

[Blasted]

This is a wicked tune.

[Blasted]

I'm proud of my Polish heritage 

[Pyraxis]

Ari Ne'eman of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network is being profiled in Newsweek and the article has a reference to Katie Miller, Alex Plank's (former? current?) girlfriend. Is there a subgroup of people on the autism spectrum whose perseveration is politics and networking, and how does this relate to all the misdirected advocacy attempts around other spectrum communities?

[Trigger 11]

I'm proud of my Polish heritage 

They make a mean sausage!!!

[Parts]

I'm proud of my Polish heritage 

They make a mean sausage!!!

I want lunch

[odeon]

I'm hungry too.

[DirtDawg]

I'm proud of my Polish heritage 

They make a mean sausage!!!

... but she's not into sausage. She prefers clams, I think.

 :lol:

[DirtDawg]

I'm hungry too.

I am, but I have been scared to eat anything since I went to the doctor last week. I know that my craving of salt has contributed to my hereditary high blood pressure.

I have always been on the high side of borderline "acceptable"  with my blood pressure and except for way too much salt, I eat fairly well. When I went in last week to the doctor and (my regular doc was off, so I saw a new doc, I had not yet met) She was far more concerned with my blood pressure than any back pain or lower extremity numbness I could describe to her.
One of the reasons she made me stay so long was to monitor me and see if the opiate shot to relieve the pain would lower my BP enough to feel safe prescribing additional medications for me to take home. Intense pain is known to raise BP, but still she was worried when after taking my BP twice by the nurse, then once for herself to confirm (212/132) that the reading was correct. She said that normally, she would admit me to the hospital immediately, but she had seen no other symptoms of stress, so she had me do some "light exercise" as part of her diagnosis of my back condition, constantly monitoring my BP and it went down, when "if I was about to blow"  it should have gone up, dangerously.
After about half an hour and an opiate, anti-inflammatory and muscle relaxer shots in my butt and a cortisone shot to the back, my BP was 140/103 - still too high, but hardly "Take Immediate Action"  high.
She wants me to come back in this week and do stress tests.
 
I will. It has been about three years since I went through the entire work up, even though I have to submit to the bloodwork often. I suppose I am overdue.

I have only eaten fresh fruit and nuts since last week and even more water than I normally drink. No salt or saturated fats, until I figure out if this was a passing thing or the wave of my future.
 

[Peter]

I love putting salt on my food.  I prepare most things from basic ingredients, so there usually isn't any salt beyond what I add myself and what occurs naturally in fruit, meat, vegetables etc.  I tried cutting down lately, but after a few days without adding salt to my food, my muscles started to ache, my mucus membranes dried up, giving me that sticky-eyelids sensation, and I felt generally crappy, and I felt much better within about 30 minutes of eating something that I'd added salt to.  Maybe I'd have more success by gradually reducing the amount of salt I add, so that my body has time to adjust to the lower salt intake.

[DirtDawg]

I love putting salt on my food.  I prepare most things from basic ingredients, so there usually isn't any salt beyond what I add myself and what occurs naturally in fruit, meat, vegetables etc.  I tried cutting down lately, but after a few days without adding salt to my food, my muscles started to ache, my mucus membranes dried up, giving me that sticky-eyelids sensation, and I felt generally crappy, and I felt much better within about 30 minutes of eating something that I'd added salt to.  Maybe I'd have more success by gradually reducing the amount of salt I add, so that my body has time to adjust to the lower salt intake.

I've gone coldturkey from salt.
I have dry, sticky eyes most of the time, anyway, but my muscles only seem to ache when I stop exercising for some reason, like when my arm was broken.
I swore to myself that I was not going to stop just because I was wearing a cast and promised to myself that I would keep up the legwork on the bag, but I failed. I have yet to begin again with a good set of routines. I only kept up my brisk walking every morning, at least, I did until last week when my back was flaring up.
I haven't had a bad problem with my back in about five years.

On Thursday, I am going to the heart clinic and they will try to blow my heart up by stressing me on their machines. It has been a while and I know I have gone a little downhill since my l ast stress test, but I think I will be OK. I just need to find out if my extreme blood pressure was an anomaly last week or if I am truly having such scary high pressure during normal activities.
I hope it's not a lie to stop salt abruptly, then take their tests. I just need to know if I am in danger of losing more of my health to age.


Addendum:
My recent googling indicates that substantially reducing the level of salts in the blood takes about two to three weeks, so even though I have gone coldturkey, it won't really affect the tests.