Hello Cheryl,
Sorry that I'm late in responding to your question. I'm am a vegetarian and have been for 3 decades so I was familar with tofu. Tofu is surrounded by other soy products on the grocery shelves so it was easy to select dairy substitutes. It's over a year now without diarrhea being a problem. The only time that I have had a problem other than what I mentioned previously was when I had the flu last week. I have wondered if eliminating my diarrhea issue helped the Gleevec to bring me to cytogenic remission last May. This would be difficult to determine as I was upped to 800 mg in Dec of 2003 and that alone may have created the remission in May of 2004. Anyway, it was nice to get rid of it. Jim Dx 12/02 #804 --- In [email protected], "Cheryl-Anne Simoneau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Jim, > I was really intrigued by your comments on digestive > problems. > > "Past side effects that have disappeared were: nausea (pill with meals & > lots of fluids eliminated this), bone pain, joint pain, eye bleeds, > diarrhea, fatigue and weight gain. I had a hard time with diarrhea until > late January of last year when I got the flu and wasn't eating much, and > drinking mostly water and fruit juice. The diarrhea stopped during those few > days. Over the next couple of weeks of experimenting I determined it was > from dairy products (and not lactose). I switched to soy products and the > only few times I've gotten diarrhea since, I've traced back to milk, cheese, > milk chocolate or the like that I accidentally consumed. (no more chocolate, > ice cream & other goodies). Also, my weight dropped from 188 to 170, and > I've had more energy." > > This might be interesting to some of us on this list as diarrhea has been a > complaint for some. I am interested in how you figured out to switch over > to soy products. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Give the gift of life to a sick child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Thanks & Giving.' http://us.click.yahoo.com/3iazvD/6WnJAA/xGEGAA/8zSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> New! Sign up for local CML support group meetings in your local community at http://cml.meetup.com Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com CML (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Support List) --------------------------------- Part Of CMLHope.Com An International Community Of CML Patients For more information: http://cmlhope.com Post Message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To No Mail/Web: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CML Group Web Site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
