So, I'm sure you know this already, Andi, but bananas.

Salty cooa. Sounds awful at first, but on consideration, sounds better. How is it?

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I was at a celebration for a one year anniversary. The bride married a Dane. They had vodka and aqua vite frozen in blocks of ice. toasting with shots. I forgot that I like aqua vite . ( oddly - the only other person that liked it was female) . I was smart - I walked , and got a ride home with others. nice to live less than a mile from a party.

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Here's the situation - I have a potassium deficiency, no insurance, not a heck of a lot of money, and a prescription potassium chloride tablets that costs $40ish per month to fill. This supplement provides in the neighborhood of 1,500mg of potassium per maximum daily dose. I can blow through upwards of 10,000mg on a hot Arizona day, and somewhere between 5-7,000 on an average Minnesota day.

Hang on here. The RDA for potassium is 3500mg. [link]

Is 10,000mg overkill?

Soya flour and raisins all contain high levels of potassium according to this list (tho it's British and doesn't list serving sizes): [link]

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Libkitty, bananas have about 450ish mg per. It's a helpful chunk, and I do eat them. Planning my diet around maximum potassium intake, including the added No-Salt brings in about 5,000mg. It tends to be higher in carbs than what really works for the rest of me. This is why I was able to convince my doctor to give me as generous a dose of supplement as he did. Back in Az, I'd fill the rest of my need on a hot day with home-made sports drink: Sugar Free Kool-Aid plus enough No-Salt to be unpleasant-tasting. As for the salty cocoa, two packets of SF cocoa, 2 cups hot water, and 1/4 tsp of No-Salt is more or less tolerable, and yields darn near 1,000 mg.

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most women at weddings/parties are looking for miximum cleavage effect.

which has nothing to do with potassium.

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Is 10,000mg overkill?

Not if it's 110 degrees outside when you start your 5 mile bike ride to work. The human body doesn't really start shutting down until it is about 107. If one is properly hydrated and full of the right balance of electrolytes, it is quite possible to ignore the whole shivering, goose-bump-getting thing. Without ending up at the ER.

Before I was diagnosed with the potassium deficiency, I had an unexplainable muscle cramp in one leg. A day and a half after I started chowing down on the KCl, it disappeared. On hot, active days the cramp came back. Bit of reading showed that muscle and joint aches are some of the symptoms of potassium deficiency. For the purposes of measurement, the first month or so, I tracked, by writing down everything I ate and how much of the No-Salt I used in order to keep the cramp at bay. A hot day that I had to ride the bike to work and back required around 10,000mg. A day spent at home, not poking my nose outside the cooled air, took 6,000 to 8,000mg. The figure of 5,000-7,000mg for my current needs is more of an estimate, really.

True, for most people these amounts would cause an overdose, and too much potassium is dangerous to both the neurological and circulatory systems. But with that handy-dandy cramp of mine, I can self-regulate my dosage without lab work.

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humph. husband is sleeping in a hotel room in LA. It is rude of me to wish that he would wake up - see the messages on his phone and call me. But he should do so anyway.

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husband is sleeping in a hotel room in LA. It is rude of me to wish that he would wake up - see the messages on his phone and call me.

Just how loudly are you wishing?

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Belated Happy Birthdays to Perkins, and to B.org!

Ish, Deena. Sympathies to you. BTDT.

beth! Good to see you. I don't often get the chance to post with you.

And now, let's see if I can get to sleep if I go back to bed.

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Pot is such a parent-type thing. So very old skool and shit. This says more about my parents than it does me.

This is so totally my take on it. My parents were big ol' pot-heads, so from when I was very little it was something parents did, not kids. When my friends smoke pot (not that I know anybody who does), it's always a slight shock, and I expect them to shampoo with beer and talk seriously about pyramid power while macrame-ing potslings.

meara, don't feel bad - a friend of mine's wife works at NIMH and never put it together that her workplace and "The Secret of NIMH" were the same.

I thought they changed Frisby to Brisby so as to avoid confusion with the Wham-O Flying Disk.

Mice don't actually bug me, other than the time I was kneeling on the floor and the cat chased one under my crotch. DEAD mice bug me, but that never stopped my sister from making me deal with the mousetraps in her freaking house when I was little.

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Happy Birthday, erika!

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