Guest guest Posted July 16, 2000 Report Share Posted July 16, 2000 Sheri, a reading of over 200 at any time is a diagnosis of diabetes. Is your son on shots? Usually at that age they are. Carbohydrates are plant foods that are made of carbon dioxide and water in the form of glucose molecules. Sugars are a few glucose molecules together, starches are hundreds of molecules in chains that digest quickly to blood sugar. Longer chains are fiber and cellulose, not digestible by humans. For some notions of food content bookmark this site. http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/1617/carbohydrate_chart.html For recipe help bookmark http://www.cyberdiet.com/ http://diabeticgourmet.com/ Myself, I found starches the big problems, like bread, pasta pizza, breakfast cereals. I have to limit rice corn potato. I largely use fruits for my carbohydrates with their vitamins, minerals and fiber. I have a salad for lunch, and a small salad with dinner. Dinner is lean meat, steamed vegetable and half a potato or foil baked yam. I found testing blood sugar an hour after a meal told me how it affected my sugars. My morning fasting sugar told me if I was doing well at control. I expect a reading under 100. We are here to help with your child and husband. Keep writing, Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2003 Report Share Posted June 19, 2003 Louisa We know the diagnosis of Prostate Cancer affects the whole of the family. It seems sometimes that the person with it copes easier than the partner and other members of the family. You all will be on an emotional roller coaster. However we all pray that your dad's pain is diminished by the radiation and he has an easier time and please be aware that we understand the need to talk through emotions and worries It may be worth him talking to his physicians about dual medication - eg daily Casodex 50mg tablets in addition to the monthly injection of Zoledex or Lupron. Jan, who is on this group, nursed her husband through this stage, she may be able to offer some other pointers for you and if you want to get more information about medical options we can point you to busier groups. Otherwise we will offer as much help as possible. As for retirement - this will benefit your dad in taking away the need to be somewhere at a particular time, giving time to stop and rest if needed - but when I was diagnosed and got over my operation I must admit to throwing myself into work and activity to the best of my ability. I am now in the position of being able to stop for a rest if necessary but find it good to fill my time and not sit and worry. Please don't worry if when he feels like it he gets up and does things. My mum still says I do too much! Thanks for writing this intro, please stay in touch. I'm off to London on the train tommorrow as I am participating in a vaccination trial at St 's Hospital. Hambleton Selby Yorkshire England Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2003 Report Share Posted June 19, 2003 Ron My dad started on 3 monthly injections - he now has the lower dose monthly injections and finds the side effects more bearable. -----Original Message-----From: RON KERBLE Sent: 19 June 2003 22:12To: ProstateCancerSupport Subject: Re: introduction Hi, In the United States, they have injections that last 3 and 4 months inplace of 1 month. Zometa is an IV drug used for prostate cancer patients who have it in there bones too. Ratiation treatments also help. Good luck and have fun with dad. Ron: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2003 Report Share Posted June 19, 2003 Yes, I wonder if that is what my dad is on too. He was on tablets before hand, only they weren't fighting the cancer too well, and dad's psa had doubled in 3 months..so we are waiting to see if this is working better. The radiation was for the pain, and apparently he just gets one of those...not sure about definites though. Thanks for your warm welcome. I have a great bunch of friends, but i felt like i was boring them with the same things..i just wanted to talk about dad..and what was happening, but i didnt want to burden them with the same things. So this group is exactly what i have been looking for. We are a pretty open family. And have been upfront with each other about this, which has been really good. Dad (and mum) is really positive. But in saying that, they are also realists. Dad is fighting with all he has, but is also needing to talk about things down the line too, in order to deal with things. Which I am really thankful for. Dad is worried about Mum. Understandably so. He wants the mortgage paid off..etc etc..I guess its a guy thing, but we (mum and I - i am the only daughter) tell dad..to hang with the mortgage, just dont tire yourself out, and hang out with us...hahahah..but..well..he wants mum to be secure ...etc,.... ANyway...thanks again..and i am looking forward to reading more about you all. And thanks so much for your understanding. :-) Louisa >From: " Metcalf" >Reply-To: ProstateCancerSupport >To: >Subject: RE: introduction >Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:05:47 +0100 > >Ron > >My dad started on 3 monthly injections - he now has the lower dose monthly >injections and finds the side effects more bearable. > > > Re: introduction > > > Hi, > In the United States, they have injections that last 3 and 4 months > inplace of 1 month. > > Zometa is an IV drug used for prostate cancer patients who have it in > there bones too. Ratiation treatments also help. > > Good luck and have fun with dad. > Ron > > : Check out the Xtra gaming servers at www.xtramsn.co.nz/gaming ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 30, 2004 Report Share Posted June 30, 2004 I see a doctor in Kingman named Aguilar. She is great! I have seen 2 other neurologists in the last 2 years but they never even suspected MS or even did tests to rule out anything. I don't want to have MS but at least I finally know why I can't remember anything and it is comforting to know I am not losing my mind! I have been having episodes where I get numb and tingly in my left hand/arm and left foot/leg, as well as stammering and stuttering. I also experience short term memory loss and I forget what I am saying in the middle! So to finally know what causes it is a relief. At least now I know what I am dealing with. Not knowing is worse. April Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 26, 2009 Report Share Posted June 26, 2009 Hi, I'm a mother of a young lady about to start college whose life has been very complicated in the last few years because of fibromylagia. She has grown to hate doctors because of their either having attitudes about it not being real, or having nothing to offer her that helps. I've been on another fibro list for probably two years but have gotten weary of the hopelessness there. I actually do autism biomedical research and am always filled with hope that with the proper science, the causes of unusual conditions can be understood. About four and a half years ago, I began looking at research on how a simple toxin called oxalate that impairs the energy cycle of cells is higher in some plant foods compared to others. Usually, it is not absorbed and just leaves in your poop, but it will get through into the blood if you have a leaky gut or intestinal inflammation, especially if you have been taking antibiotics that kill the flora that degrades oxalate. Since I've done autism research since 1995 and have been part of the thinktank put together by the Autism Research Institute, I began, through that institute, a project to see if reducing oxalate in the diet changed things for people with autism since they had terrible GI issues. The diet has been effective beyond my wildest dreams but a lot of what it treats is pain and the parents have made some unusual observations about pain issues changing in their children. I really do think there are some areas of overlap with fibromyalgia for this reason. I've lectured internationally at autism conferences and I actually have for several years had a slide about fibromyalgia because of parallels I see in the area of pain and sleep. Of course, I've seen fibro up close with my daughter, and I know about very obscure issues in neurology and cell chemistry because of my work. In the process of finding out HOW to reduce oxalate in the diet, I learned there was very scattered and inconsistent information about this diet, so when I set up a website to help people with autism, I determined to fund more food testing to widen the choices. I realized my website and support group could help a lot of other conditions whose connection to oxalate is already understood, so I made the list open to everybody who wanted this information for their own health. Over the years, people showed up with fibromyalgia, and those who have spoken up have said that the diet did help them, and sometimes a very great deal. My daughter considers this a diet for autism, so there are huge barriers to her trying it, but I wish there were more people who would look at it to see how helpful it might be, as even she would change her mind if she heard it from you! You will notice that somebody put up a website for the diet and fibromyalgia, but that wasn't me...it was probably a listmate and its pretty wimpy. I can get into why this diet might help fibromyalgia, but I believe the proof is in the pudding. Of course, I cannot quote here what the listmates said about what the diet changed for them because of privacy issues, but if some of you joined my internet list, you could read the archives searching on fibromyalgia, and see what you think. The group is Trying_Low_Oxalates and our website is www.lowoxalate.info. I looked in the archives here and it was obvious no one here has been on the oxalate list or has tried the low oxalate diet. If there is interest I would be happy to tell you the science of why oxalate might be relevant. A lot can be learned by reading the paper I wrote on the leaky gut, which is here: www.lowoxalate.info/papers/mechanisms.html The leaky gut is common to a LOT of chronic conditions. Thanks! I look forward to getting to know what you've learned here really helps fibromyalgia. Our biggest success has been a cpap machine and Xyrem and our biggest disasters come from lost sleep. We also are still investigating vitamin D areas as my whole family was found to be extremely deficient. -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.560 / Virus Database: 270.12.26/2116 - Release Date: 5/15/2009 6:16 AM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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