I lived in Chicago for years but moved away a while ago. I still have my 312 number.

A couple years ago I started getting about 10 calls a day from 312 area codes that immediately hangup when I answer. I tried remaining silent, speaking, anything, doesn't matter.. same result.

I have a Google Pixel and often it will send it straight to voicemail and I always get a 4 second blank voicemail. On occasion the calls will pass the filter and ring, no one or nothing ever says anything though.

I'm guessing these are bots with spoofed ID checking to see what numbers are active. Hell, in the 90s I used to wardial to check for active carriers with my dial up modem.

For now all I can do is mark each call as spam and block and delete the voicemail.

Changing numbers isn't an option so maybe I have to just live with it.

Any ideas Lemmy?

Quit drinking and smoking cold turkey 9 days ago and my BP is about 140s over 80s (was observed to be even higher about 72 hours in).

For reference, I've always had a low sodium, plant-based diet and never really had elevated blood pressure before I quit.

Just curious if this will ever go down on its own, my plan is to wait a couple weeks and see, but curious.

UPDATE: yes, well aware of stopping abruptly. I was more like a 2-5 beer/day person and had frequently stopped for a day or two without issue so wasn't terribly worried, but I did check BP to be sure nothing wrong undetected was going on.

I didn't have any symptoms outside of elevated BP and after checking frequently the last couple days I'm about mid 120s to 130 over 70s consistently.

So, in my own personal experience (and we are all different) it does seem that quitting both abruptly caused a temporary elevation in BP for several days.

I have been hydrating regularly (2 liters minimum of water daily, plus I eat a lot of plants with high water content anyway), yoga, cardio, Peleton. Sleeping better.

I will continue to monitor and contact my Dr if needed. I believe my annual checkup is soon anyway.

Thanks for all the responses.

I was holding RCL long-term during the pandemic and sold off after their last earnings report (at several points higher). Regretting that now as it keeps going up up and up.

Bought CCL for cheap before earnings and it's looking good.

Oil is down, record bookings. Really the only negative is the debt the industry acquired and high interest rates. But they're paying down the debt, profitable again, interest rates will go down.

The whole industry is poised well.