Salt intake

Yes! Love salty food and salt everything, from day one of getting my pouch. I am 50 and have had said pouch for over 30 years and have never had high blood pressure

 I avoided it due to swelling and weight gain for years... but I would often get dizzy and had problems with exhaustion so after reading about it here I added some to my diet and boom...started to get my enery back (a bit)...I get sudden cravings for salt and hit the nuts (not good for the diet) or salt my food more but only in my plate to control my intake.

In summer or when in highly heated environments I get dehydrated quickly...so I eat salty nuts and drink bubbly water...

Sharon

Thanks for the replys. Most people think I'm crazy for eating so much salt. I literally pour salt in my hand and then right into my mouth, lol. I've never had an issue with high blood pressure, actually my pb tends to run on the low side. 

I remember when I was going through my surgeries reading that salty snacks were good for keeping your electrolytes up, so it makes perfect sense to me that you'd be craving salt! I've also read that sea salts and Himalayan salts are better than regular table salt, if you want to branch out. I sometimes pop a chunk of Himalayan pink salt into my mouth and suck on it like a candy, which sounds like something you'd like!

My bp is terribly low too...I slip below 60/90 on bad days...high for me is 12/70 so salt is not a problem.

I was using pink Hymalaian rock salt and threw my thryroid out of wack...no iodine in it...I had to go back to good old fashioned table salt to get my thryroid back into shape.

Sharon

My salt consumption is off the charts and horrifies onlookers.  When I had thyroid cancer last year for 24 days I went on a low iodine diet preparatory to taking radioactive iodine.  During this period of time I realized there is a sharp and unpleasant taste difference between non-iodized and iodized salt, the former being just too strong and the latter being more appropriate and capable of being used in greater quantities.

Its all good and prevents depletion of sodium levels. Electroloyte regulation is never perfect once the colon is gone.

Thanks again for the comments. Good to know I'm not alone. J9pouch, I do sea salt the and way!!! My husband tried to get me to get some pink Himalayan salt this weeknd said it would be better for me, I'll have to try it out. 

i'm on the salt wagon also!!  lucky me i don't have high blood pressure, if anything it's too low.  prior to my colon removal i would barely touch salt.  

might this salt phenomenon have anything to do with our small intestines developing a different osmotic process?  extracting fluids is one of the colon's functions and we simply have a different process now.  i also drink more fluids and had terrible SIBO--part of which is caused by osmosis--with the j pouch.  just a thought....  janet