On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:43:46 -0500, "Jean B." > wrote:

> sf wrote:
> > On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:50:14 -0500, "Jean B." > wrote:
> >
> >> sf wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:06:38 -0500, "Jean B." > wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Nancy Young wrote:
> >>>>> On 2/14/2012 11:21 PM, Jean B. wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Also, I take a BP med. I also test. Early in the game, I established
> >>>>>> that salt did not affect my BP. I wonder how many people it DOES affect?
> >>>>>> I wonder how many people are told to lower the sodium in their diets for
> >>>>>> some generic reason, without being tested?
> >>>>> My MIL had very low blood pressure, actually prone to fainting
> >>>>> now and again. Naturally they told her to reduce sodium in her
> >>>>> diet.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I guess they just hate sodium.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> nancy
> >>>> That is VERY odd. A newsgroup friend was fainting, and that was
> >>>> the finding in her case too. This was understandable, because she
> >>>> doesn't LIKE salt.
> >>> And my neighbor had the opposite diagnosis after passing out. She
> >>> needed *more* salt! Her body wasn't metabolizing the salt in her diet
> >>> properly. She was on an IV for two weeks and sodium tablets after
> >>> that. Her body is functioning properly now so she doesn't have to
> >>> take supplements anymore.
> >>>
> >> No, that's the same diagnosis.
> >
> > Sorry, but I don't see how being told to reduce sodium is the same as
> > needing more.
> >
> I didn't say that.

You said it was the same diagnosis, it's not.

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