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PING....Damsel in dis Dress
Damsel,
Please proceed with caution before changing any of your meds or supplements. Bugs Bunny may mean well, but s/he is not your doctor. They do not have your medical records in front of them and they do not really know enough about you or the specifics of your condition to prescribe treatment and drug dosing. Yes s/he wrote long posts which appear brilliant and illuminating. I'd strongly suggest you use the information as a guide in doing your own research into the things mentioned. Many supplements will interfere with the drugs you take and may cause more harm than good. If you take some of this you may have to balance it with two of those and the result may mean changing your med doses accordingly. Next. Where the hell are the references to all the stuff Bugs had to say? And finally. The fact that Bugs did not understand the difference between grams of weight and grams of protein in a weighed portion of protein gives me pause in regards to their understanding of what they seem to be parroting from other sources. But hey, what do I know? Lee Rodgers Lowcarb Retreat http://www.lowcarb.org |
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PING....Damsel in dis Dress
Lee Rodgers wrote:
Please proceed with caution before changing any of your meds or supplements. Bugs Bunny may mean well, but s/he is not your doctor. They do not have your medical records in front of them and they do not really know enough about you or the specifics of your condition to prescribe treatment and drug dosing. I strongly agree with Lee's warnings; I just posted to that thread about this. Bugs knows some stuff, but it may be that he knows enough to be dangerous as opposed to knowing enough to be helpful. Especially for someone with such a complex medical history and on so many different medications. -- As you accelerate your food, it takes exponentially more and more energy to increase its velocity, until you hit a limit at C. This energy has to come from somewhere; in this case, from the food's nutritional value. Thus, the faster the food is, the worse it gets. -- Mark Hughes, comprehending the taste of fast food |
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Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
Thank you, Lee. I'm so confused and frightened. I'm very frustrated that my blood sugars, while lowered from earlier in this process, are still unacceptably high by my standards. By my doctor's standards, they're magnificent! :-( I believe that I need a medication change, but she doesn't agree. I hate to be literally controlled by someone else because we have different goals. Especially when I believe that my goals are more beneficial than hers are. Bernstein thinks we should have completly normal bg readings... aiming at 85 all the time. The folks over on asd seem to think good readings are 100-110 fbg, 140 1-hour postprandial and 120 at 2-hours. I've adopted these goals myself. Maybe I'll move to Bernstein's goal at a later time, but rather than drive myself nuts, I just want to aim at reasonable goals. My fbg is still way out-of-wack, got to work on that. A friend of mine used to work in public health on indian reservations and they considered bg consistently under 200 to be good control. Even Bernstein says for folks who've been running high a long time, they start with an initial goal of 160 or 180 and move the target down gradually to prevent the person feeling hypoglycemic due to having adjusted to really high blood glucose levels. So theres a wide variety of goals for bg. If you and your doctor disagree about your goals, that's where you need to start discussing and negotiating. Figure out what you your goals should be to start. Get to that level, get it controlled, and then you can worry about improvement later. It's just like losing weight, you can have mini-goals before the ideal goal. The main bit is to not give up - this is your quality of life you're fighting for here. I'm also frustrated about not being able to lose weight. That will come with the bg control. And it will improve the bg control too. You will get there. I will get there too. -- As you accelerate your food, it takes exponentially more and more energy to increase its velocity, until you hit a limit at C. This energy has to come from somewhere; in this case, from the food's nutritional value. Thus, the faster the food is, the worse it gets. -- Mark Hughes, comprehending the taste of fast food |
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Jackie Patti wrote:
Lee Rodgers wrote: Please proceed with caution before changing any of your meds or supplements. Bugs Bunny may mean well, but s/he is not your doctor. They do not have your medical records in front of them and they do not really know enough about you or the specifics of your condition to prescribe treatment and drug dosing. I strongly agree with Lee's warnings; I just posted to that thread about this. Bugs knows some stuff, but it may be that he knows enough to be dangerous as opposed to knowing enough to be helpful. I'd like to know from which quack^H^H^H^H^Halt med practioner the megadosing vitamin advice was paraphrased. I seem to recall reading a recent study abstract showing that megadosing antioxidant supplements increased the risks for everything that eating more antioxidant-containing veggies decreased risks for, but I'm having trouble locating the cite. -- jamie ) "There's a seeker born every minute." |
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