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Warpy

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12. Ha! Given the state of the country right now
Sat May 17, 2014, 07:17 PM
May 2014

quitting booze would quite likely raise your blood pressure. Cutting down would be the way to go.

I wish I knew how I did it, I just know I drove the doc nuts when I'd be back for a lower dose with a record of what my pressures were doing and the fact that nobody could make me take any of it when my pressure was 80s/50s. It just kept dropping and so did my dose of drugs until I was at the lowest dose, ran out of pills, and maintained a fairly normal pressure.

Gatorade would be nice on those backpacking trips, since it replaces potassium as well as sodium. If you're not getting edematous from the sodium, then it's likely fine for backpacking.

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