Dwayne,
Well this is excellent news! It sounds like things
are going better. Of course, the temperature being a
bit lower certainly helps. If all of this worked,
then I think you should continue to follow the
formula. I doubt that the potassium made any
difference. Likely keeping hydrated did make a
difference. Also, the fact that you had to go to the
bathroom a lot is good too. It means that your body
is well-hydrated. Perhaps your first dizzying ride
was a little more intense than what you were used
to. If you weren't used to riding this hard, the
body can sometimes go into a sort of shock when it's
put under heavy physical activity. Keep us updated.
- Muskie
Dwayne wrote:
> Badger_South <
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>>On 10 Jul 2004 07:43:20 GMT, Ben A Gozar
>><
[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Below is the way I meant my note to be read. It was an
>>>estimation of course, but we men aren't exactly known to
>>>be running to the doctor at the rate of women. The sad
>>>news is once we pass forty things go wrong and we men
>>>tend to die off rather suddenly. Two of my friends went
>>>in for a check up only for the doctors to have bp
>>>readings on both of them of almost
>>>visited my doctor for completely different problems I
>>>could no longer ignore and I found out I am not 16 any
>>>more. In the United States at least, I think the Doctor
>>>may be closer to correct, than farther from it.
>>>
>>>At any rate I do not have an informed opinion on whether
>>>it is a true statement or not, I was just passing on what
>>>was told to me.
>>>
>>>
>>>>When I read it, I gave it a totally different
>>>>interpretation than either of the above: For every man
>>>>that he sees in the office, he estimates there are 15
>>>>others with serious health problems who are not coming
>>>>in, and could be at serious risk.
>>
>>And I'm saying that if you are active, have no obvious
>>risk, such as smoking, overweight, alcoholic, and soforth
>>that there's no reason to be this paranoid. Of course if
>>you walk down the street you'll see lots of examples of
>>couch potatoes walking out of bars, chain smoking. I'd say
>>90% of these guys are at significant risk. But without
>>doing a physical, guess what? I'd be pulling that
>>estimation out of my ass.
>>
>>Certain risk factors might be predictable based on your
>>genetics - many black men have high blood pressure, and
>>for them, over 40, go get that checked. Otherwise, to
>>quote that kind of figure to any particular patient is a
>>scare tactic, and meaningless. You pretty much know your
>>risk factors,
>>b/c you know how you're abusing your body. But among a sub
>> group, such as bikers who have been doing it for 10
>> years and are lean and fit and active and don't overdo
>> their vices, would that be the case? My dad is 81,
>> active all his life, and has smoked a pack of unfiltered
>> cigs a day since he was 25, and still going strong - go
>> figure. In my case, go look at my pic at 50 and tell me
>> what kind of risk factors I have.
>>
>>
http://www.pbase.com/image/18847396/medium
>>
>>So, IMO, for your doc to say that is meaningless,
>>irresponsible (for making you paranoid, if it did) and he
>>could have said 9 out of 10 or 1 out of 100 and both been
>>right, depending on demographic.
>>
>>I'll tell you what's dangerous, though. Go into any
>>hospital to have a minor procedure and your chances of
>>never coming out again are quite high, due to nosocomial
>>infection (hospital antibiotic resistant bugs), surgical
>>mistakes, and other misadventures. So I could say doctors
>>- stay the freak away from them, b/c you could be
>>misdiagnosed or they could just have seen a patient with
>>resistant strep and forgot to wash his hands. Did your doc
>>wash his hands before he left your exam room? He didn't?
>>OMG! ;-)
>>
>>Go check out some sites that talk about 'what they don't
>>tell you about medical exams'. Do you know that the
>>devices they use for endoscopy and rectal exams can not be
>>properly sterilized? THat's right, the chances are good
>>that the last patient they scoped has left a little bit of
>>blood or body fluid inside the device and now it's inside
>>you. There's no known way to sterilize against prion
>>infections (mad cow), so if you have an operation, you
>>might be innoculated with CJD and not know it. What if
>>you're having an appendectomy and they nick an artery and
>>you have to get blood? Or the anesthesiologist gives you
>>the wrong gas (happened to my dad and they tried to cover
>>it up - he actually went into cardiac arrest b/c they gave
>>him 5 times the dose needed by mistake when he had a
>>kidney stone removed). See, it works both ways. ;-p
>>
>>OK, sorry for the rant....
>>
>>-B
>
>
> Ok here's what happened this morning. I got up at 7:20 and
> showered and got dressed and the entire time I was
> drinking bottles of filtered water, about 3 bottles full,
> plus. Then I ate a peanut butter granola bar and a small
> amount of peanut butter for sustained energy. I checked my
> BP and it was 129/92. I checked my blood sugar count with
> my wife's kit and it was 102, before I ate anything
> (fasting). She told me that was a fairly good reading,
> diabetes would be 130 - 200+, while fasting all night.
> then I took one 99 mg potassium tablet and 3 cal/mag/zinc
> = 1000 mg total, tablets. Then, I went riding for about 2
> hours and rode about 22 miles and the temp was about 77
> with about 80 % humid, the temp was normal but the humid.
> was a little less than usual here. Everything went fine. I
> didn't get a bit sick. I even pushed myself to do more and
> had no problems. Even when my buddies wanted to turn back
> before it got too hot, I wanted to go further but we
> turned back, probably a good idea anyway, I thought. I
> rode all the way back with no problems. then as soon as I
> got in the door at home, I check my BP and it was 116/69.
> My heart rate was 98 BPM. I felt perfectly fine and still
> full of energy. What gives? Was it the potassium? WAs it
> the 3 bottles full of water before I rode? Oh one more
> thing, during the ride I suddenly had to "go". My bladder
> was full. So I stopped and did my business and went on.
> Then when I got home I had to go again. That doesn't
> usually happen.
