Along with having post-polio symptoms, I also have hypertension and high cholesterol, and until a few years ago, before the Medical Profession decided that the total number for cholesterol should be below 200, I was not concerned about my high cholesterol, because my good cholesterol (HDL) was extremely high, and I was told by my docto…[more]

I contracted poliomyletis back in 1954 when I was just about two years old. Although the doctors told my parents I would probably not survive, I did, and after a short period of paralysis, recoverd completely, except for the pain and swelling in my knees, which have occurred on and off my whole life.The past 8 - 9 years however, I have been experiencin…[more]