I spend a lot of time in the supermarket squinting at the "sugars" and the "sodium" lines on the labels, and I feel salt is much easier to minimise, not least of all because "low sodium" doesn't mean they've bulked up on something I hate more than salt, where as "low sugar" is often unpalatable for me.
Plus I like dessert, and there's no way to control sugar there unless you do it all yourself, so things like the cafe-bought muffin I'm eating now are like sucrose balls, but damn. It is a tasty ball of sucrose.
As for salting at home, Julia HM sent me bread and a few ounces of fleur de sel when I moved to LA, and I'm still working on that. Many people would probably consider how I cook unpalatable, but my mother controlled the sodium in our house for more than ten years before I started cooking myself (high blood pressure was her field of research once she stopped working on kidney disease--ironically all of them suffer from it, and I have to change my behaviour to stop fainting at the drop of a hat). I don't know if my sister salts at all--I accept there's chemistry that it's needed for, so it's actually more likely to show up in my baked goods than savoury dishes.
I made it through living in Montreal with one or two stolen salt shakers from Peel Pub.
But the minute you eat a commercially prepared meal, whether packaged or restaurant, boom. If I were doing it for health reasons (I've been prescribed salt pills more than once) I would be sorely frustrated.
I likely will head to Dallas for a business thing sometime soon. The Grapevine is on my very short list.
Laura, I can highly recommend Dallas Fish Market. On the higher end of casual, the food and the service were superb. I'm thinking longingly of it right now.
I'm back from the doctor and so frustrated, because the rapid test they do showed no bacteria. (Also not pregnant; despite my IUD, they wanted to test for it anyway. The NP said she had a patient once who got pregnant despite an IUD.) They're culturing the sample to check for bacteria that the rapid test doesn't check for, and they took blood to see if my white blood cells are up.
FWIW, my urologist said the rapid test is crap.
FWIW, my urologist said the rapid test is crap.
Man, I hope so. This -- whatever it is -- HURTS.
Did they at least give you something pending the test results, Teppy? In either case ~ma.
They gave me an Rx for yet another antibiotic in my Year of Antibiotics: Bactrim, for 3 days. They push Cipro*, but because I had such a bad problem with joint pain after taking Levaquin (which is in the same family), I push back and tell them that I'll take it only if they culture my [whatever the problem is] and find out it's susceptible ONLY to Cipro.
*(I understand why they push Cipro; it's broad spectrum and therefore kills a lot of different strains of bacteria. That said, if Cipro is over-used [and I'm fairly certain it is], then resistant strains will develop, and that won't end well.)
Teppy, may you have relief and health soon.
Teppy, some of those are the symptoms I had several years ago before I was major antibiotics and diagonised with painful bladder syndrome.
I really recommend both AZO and Aloe as supplements to help with pain. If your bladder is inflamed or sensitive due to an infection avoiding really acidic things (citrus, vinegars, etc), especially cranberry juice and spicy foods might help.
