[jyl]

Interesting, a really wide range of reactions.

Mine

- chronic reaction is blood pressure, so I have been on BP meds for decades. BP started going up when I was a lawyer, despite being in great physical shape, <30 y.o, cut out salt (at the time). I took a year off working in late '90s, in 2 months I had lost 20 lbs and resting pulse had dropped 20 pts. Back to work, BP and pulse back up (absent the medication).

- acute reaction, in the last year or so, has been this ankle pain that my doc thinks is some sort of gout, anyway it responds to colchicine. Before that, there wasn't any consistent physical reaction. Normally on first glance you'd think I had no work stress, it is pretty suppressed, part of my job is to eliminate emotions and be dispassionate/calculating

I haven't started the kitchen. Don't expect that to be stressful, I DIY'd a kitchen before and while it was a PITA, there wasn't anything more stressful about it than fixing a car or painting a bedroom. Wife and I have very compatible tastes and anyway we agree the kitchen is my call. Some dispute over whether I can install a vintage ceiling-mount arm-mounted surgical lamp but that's just fluff.