Dear Lori,
This Helps A LOT!!!
sigh. "We were educated by ourselves" (old Richie Haven song)
I'm trying hard to be my own best physician.
That D prescription sounded high.
I've got to read more.
Akua
50,000 UI?? I have low D and I take 2,000 UI a day for 2 months and
then am to reduce to 1,0000. I never heard of taking that much and
have no clue what the consequences are.
My cholesterol is low, total of 119. My hdl is in the 80's. I raised
it with fish oil, seemed to help me a ton. I also am lactose
intolerant and I use lactose free skim milk with added calcium. I am
really used to it now and have been drinking that for over 18 years.
Sounds like your sugar is low if you ate an apple and then had a
reading of 93, which is normal if you are fasting and have eaten
nothing. An apple would raise your sugar quite a bit.
Hope this helps.
Lori
From: Akua [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 8:23 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [TMIC] Vitamin D advice sought
I need Vitamin D -- there's no sun
I'm anemic low red blood cell count
my cholestrol is 163 (118-200)
my hdl is 36 (40-69)
my ldl is 113 (88-160)
she , the nurse practitioner , wrote: eat salmon olive oil almonds
and walnuts-- all of which i do!!!
And she suggested red wine to increase my hdl which i have no way
to get since there is no paratransit here, I'm unable to shop for
myself ...
and she said to watch my intake of trans fats.....I'm really PROUD
of these results. though skewed they are a testament to my efforts
to monitor and control my consumption though this is year 5 in the
wheelchair TM smashed me into and proud of myself for INSISTING
that I get a blood then and there. She told me it would be skewed
because I hadn't fasted. I didn't think
that eating an apple and having some plain tea would mess it up and
it doesn't look like it did.
i only use olive oil in cooking and since i'm lactose intolerant
what other fats these used to be
via cheese, whipped cream, ice cream are decades in the past..... my
blood sugar--- whatever that is, is 93 and deemed normal.....
The almond breeze was making me sick. i LOVEd it but now that i've
stopped drinking it
my discomfiture has ceased. thing is there is NOTHING for me to
drink anymore. It's too cold for grape juice and Silk's soy milk
made me sick too. I miss coffee but had to give it up 18 months ago
because it gave me palpitations. I drink hot water flavored with
cinnamon\ and cloves and some hibiscus or honey bush tea (related
to rooiboos), but it's BORING i miss milky substitutes.
I was chewing calcium and D but ran out of it and it took 3 weeks to
get some more.
I also take folic and B 12 and have taken D since i was paralyzed--
but i guess it's not enough.
She's ordered prescription levels of D--- I have to do more
reading---I'm afraid to take prescription doses of anything. Are
there downside to prescription levels of D (50,000)?
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