Date:   9/1/2012 3:08:39 PM ( 12 y ago)
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Hi,

I am an experienced short-fast dry faster; I've done many 3- and 4-day dry fasts over the past one and a half years, and two over 4 days, and one of 5 ays' length. It has not in the least bit ameliorated any of my serious (or minor) health (or cosmetic) problems - I am in the late stages of neuroborreliosis, a bacterial systemic infection of the nervous system - but because so many of my worst pains, debilities, and dysfunctions are brought on by ingestion of any kind (even water only), sometimes to dry fast brings me temporary relief of agony, so I am addicted to dry fasting and must flee to it.

Recently, though, I have been stymied again and again at the 2-day mark or even before it, because of my fear when I catch a narrow pulse reading on my blood pressure monitor. Keeping an eye on my blood pressure is one of the ways I psychologically keep a feeling of security about this under-researched, under-documented, under-practised modality of dry fasting!

My normal blood pressure is a systolic (higher number) of 90-100 and a lower number of 60-70; with a difference between the two numbers of about 25, or about 25% of the systolic number. But recently I have been getting a lot of readings where the pulse pressure (the difference between the two numbers) is less than 25% of the higher number - for instance, 90 over 70, 88 over 70. I gather from a little online research that this low difference is of concern and can signify scary-sounding things like shock and heart failure and "cardiac event", so every time I see a reading like that on my monitor, I give it a few hours and if it does not improve (widen), I stop the dry fast. This is seriously shortening my dry fasts!

What do you think? I should add that I do not have shortness of breath or dizziness or poor skin "snapitude" at such times, but I should also note that on days 2 and 3, my urine gets very, very scant. I urinate very frequently (which is how it is nrmally for me), but only a drop at a time. In other fasts, urine output has increased after the third day and I have safely brought fasts to their 4-day or 5-day conclusion. But I believe that other dry fasters urinate at least 16 oz during their fasts (per diem). Is this not so?

Dry fasters, please share the amount of urine you pass on your dry fasts and your heart rate/lood pressure data. By the way, my heart rate (pulse) can sometimes get quite high - high 80s - but not higher than that, on a dry fast. What do you think? Should I risk manfully braving out such a blood pressure reading? Like many dry fasters, I am concerned about heart attack, but also about the ability of the heart to pump blood efficiently to the brain - especially once I have gone to sleep! I don't know whether I really should stop being ervous about these readings and continue on with my fasts, or at least give it 12 hours or so, to see if it "corrects" itself.
 

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