A little bit of everything is good for you

On friday 4th of June just gone I developed an abscess...Lovely. Skip forward a week and I was in hospital to have it removed. Anyway, i'm fit and well again now but while there I had my blood pressure checked many times and found out mine is a little lower than average at about 110/70 if i remember right. Low blood pressure is generally a good thing, unless of course it's way below the healthy range. But i looked up low blood pressure (symptoms, treatments etc) out of interest and found it is the most likely reason for my palpitations and sometimes dizziness, especially when i stand up from sitting down. It also decreases blood flow to the brain which is why im a bit ditzy sometimes! And then I found...a way doctors apparently recommend to increase blood pressure slightly is to raise dietary salt if not enough is consumed. All this time i thought i was doing good by cutting out salt! i dont eat many processed foods, and the ONLY thing i ever add salt to (but LOTS of) is chips, which i hardly ever eat. so, a little salt is actually good for you! i honestly thought it was something that was okay to cut out entirely, like hydrogenated fats :/ so, from now on, i'll be happy to add a sensible amount of salt to any cooking :) lets see if i actually notice a difference to the way i feel in time.

Oh, also while in hospital, they put me on paracetamol and codeine, the latter of which i found i hate. It worked well as a painkiller but actually made me feel much worse in other ways - really nauseous, dizzy and extremely tired. i slept so much throughout the day on those. and the morphine..i couldnt actually feel a difference...