Doctor says I've beaten the record
marie26
15 years ago
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raw food diet - think I've found the secret to weight loss!
Comments (21)lydia -- the 100+ food Elisa test sounds very interesting. I may give that a try, eventually. I'm convinced that I have quite a few food allergies. I used to throw up when I was given white milk as a child. Never drank any once my mother figured out the cause. Except in elementary school when I was forced by a teacher and I threw up. Funny how I was able to drink chocolate milk, though. I read later (as an adult) that in fact the chocolate in chocolate milk reduces the allergic reaction. Anyway, regarding food allergies, I know I'm sensitive to wheat though I'm not a celiac. I am also sensitive to dairy. (Ask me why I can't give up my goatsmilk yoghurt, this is the last frontier for me, hope to give it up eventually.) I subscribed to the test at http://www.enterolab.com/ which is where I got the results about wheat and dairly. The test was expensive. I think over $300.00. Glad I did it though. Sounds like the Elisa test may give you the same results plus some. This food allergy thing is tricky, I think. One of our dogs now it seems has food allergies. I asked the vet to test and she said that testing for food allergies is not very reliable (for dogs). I wonder if this is true for humans? A food elimination diet was the only thing she could recommend plus eating only a particular type of dog food that was "engineered to have a small enough molecule size so it doesn't trigger the allergic reactions" (her words). I was amazed and am wondering if raw food has "smaller molecules" than cooked food, HA, HA. Perhaps moite's methods that she got from her doctor about measuring her pulse rate may be the best way. I'm going the simple route with this raw food diet (for now) because it meets many other needs also. I had a great day yesterday. I went the whole day without the "wave of tiredness" that comes over me every day after lunch. I hope it wasn't an anomaly. Bad news is that with the raw food diet, there is a "detox phase" initially where some claim that you are ridding your system of toxins. The detox phase can produce acne which is what I just got yesterday. I haven't had a pimple on my face for many years but I have two now. Oh well. If my energy level stays good, I'll have to add that as one more reason why I'm glad I found this diet. I was craving cooked food day before yesterday but managed to get by without it. Hopefully those days will get less in number. This was kind of like craving a cigarette after quitting, as I remember it many years ago. Keep us posted about your food allergies. I'm becoming more and more convinced that for some of us, they are literally killing us or are reducing our quality of life (for some of us) to a very very large extent producing chronic problems and diseases that mainstream medicine doesn't have a clue. In my case, I definitely feel like I've become a guinea pig for trying out different "cures". I'm hoping that raw food will by my answer. I realize that because there is no definite proof, I could be wrong on this but as my DH says, it's gotta be better than being so overweight and hungry all the time. We were killing ourselves eating cooked food so how could this be any worse....See Moreallergies, sinuses, doctors
Comments (40)For sinus sufferers, there was a bit on NPR about lactobacillus sakei and sinus infections...seems to be a strong connection to the good bacteria fighting off the sinus infections. Only thing is, it hasn't been studied yet in humans, but thought I'd mention that there has been some early signs of success with it. Also GF suffers with allergies and she has found that taking OTC antihistamine before or as her allergies begin really helps to control the situation as it keeps it from getting worse and setting up vicious cycles of misery. Though I have no first hand experience, I hope this helps.... what causes sinus infections Acutally this whole human biome business is just beginning to get hot and scientists are just beginning to understand that we shouldn't think of the body as a pristene place with viral and bacterial invaders that need to be wiped out....rather we need to think of the body as a garden where we want to grow the good bacteria so it can keep the bad stuff in check....fascinating stuff. Here is a link that might be useful: What works for chronic sinusitis...See MoreBoutique doctor
Comments (40)EMRs - Electronic Medical Records. With the exception of many of the younger physicians I have yet to met a physician who honestly likes it. My DH now comes home after a long day at work and spends an additional 2 hours reading all the EMR's that are in his inbox. The cost to his practice to implement this system was over $250,000. Training was not only expensive but time consuming. The software is proprietary and when DH began his office conversion there was only one software program available to medical oncologists. Needless to say this was very expensive. Plus the cost of new hardware for the oncology nurses, techs and physicians. What really bothers him is that it interferes with his patient time. He allots 50 minutes for a new cancer patient. Now he spends the first 15 to 20 minutes asking the questions listed in his software program and typing in the answer. The program won't let him skip a question. Most of his patients dislike it too because they feel the doctor is too busy looking at his laptop rather than looking at them. It's not a good way to begin such an important relationship. In time it should improve. It will facilitate the transfer of important data - but as practices convert it's quite painful. My best friend's DH is simply going to retire when the conversion becomes mandatory. He's a solo family practitioner in a fairly poor urban neighborhood and he doesn't have the extra money nor the desire to switch to EMRs....See MoreDoes your doctor's office....
Comments (25)maifleur01s - none of those apply. I guess then in July of 2017 the office shouldn't have called me at 6.20 am to tell me to go directly to ER to have potassium IVd into me because my test showed it was down to 2.5. I know the numbers it should be within, all they have to tell me is the # rather than keep it from me. I've had docs before who'd call me and tell me. They know how to tell if it is me and who else they can tell (in case I've passed out). I can't even get them to MAIL the results to me. nor am I driving in the heat of the AZ summer (a/c is out in car) if I don't know that my potassium is where it should be. That could be too dangerous. And he had the test results back from the week before when I was in there. when I went to their portal even after they told me the results were there, they weren't. And they said they couldn't help me with that because they knew nothing about how it works....See Moremarie26
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