You can contact me off list if you need help with the sodium. We've been
doing it for  almost a year, I haven't kept as low as DH but I feel guilty
if I'm eating something he  can't have. :)
Jo
nj
lyo13@nac.net

Hey again and thanks to all who responded to my plea for help.

This week I have begun stir-frying my vegetables, and am casting an
"eagle-eye" on all labels for sodium content.

I started a "semi-vegetarian" diet a couple years ago to help combat my
rheumatoid arthritis/gout, so for the "meats" I am limiting myself to
chicken and fish (no shellfish), and that very sparingly.

Also a couple of years ago, I began getting these huge blisters on
either my hands or my feet (and once on both) for no apparent reason,
and I was thinking "Bullous Pemphigoid", so I went to see a
dermatologist. The good news was that the blisters were not cancerous,
but a fungus, and it was blamed on the diuretic I was taking along with
my BP meds.

(I had never heard of a diuretic causing a fungus/blisters, have
y'all?)

Long story short, I was instructed to limit my sodium and come off the
diuretic completely.

When I tried that (slowly), I started swelling up and I freaked and
went back on the Triam HTZ and when I went to the doc for a check up
last week, HE got pissed because I had had another flare-up with the
blisters, and thought I was off the diuretic, so I am trying again, and
this time I am REALLY controlling the sodium and so far, so good.

Some of y'all may remember me from this group a few years ago, and
yeah, here I am again, still tryin' to hang in there. :)

So anyway, I got a book called The No Salt Cookbook (couldn't find one
called "Low Sodium Dieting or anything similar) and I am learning the
joys of steaming my veggies and adding rice, and like I said: so far,
so good.

So thanks again for the help and the kind words!

Quasi