Hey Veg, thanks for the props! although this stuff is pretty prevalent and well recieved information now, way back then it was practically unheard of....when I told conventional docs about small meals and reactive hypo stuff, they would look at me like I was bananas, well, I am bananas on other issues but that's beside the point...I just was happy to go to forward thinking integrative specialists way back then...
Hey, as far as your hormone issues, this is another topic that has a lot of takes on it, by the medical establishment as well, I read a really good book on this, Uzzi Riess, yo can google it, they have it on Amazon...he's a big believer on natural bio-identical hormones...there are some women here who take them and there are different delivery methods...
I for one would not do the patch, there were some articles on it fairly recently that had me concerned, I'd just punch in the type youre going to get in a yahoo or google search engine and you can read up on it...this hormonal issue is controversial, like hep, (aren't we just so darn lucky???) so it would be really good for you to educate yourself on it.
they have every thing you could ever imagine on menopause, peri-menopause, HRT, PMS and every other darn acronym, symptoms, every kind of hormone, you name it. And they have a huge panel of experts that give chat talks there every week, with all of this info archived. You could just punch in your prescription in their search engine and you could hear a lot, pro and con. We'll be okay Veg....just educate yourself on these issues as much as you can, we need to do this as patients, as the docs all have different take so this, so we have to be able to navigate....
yeah I agree, I have been "goggling" it all day, very controversial, one says it's okay, other says it's not....go figure lol
LOL: I had to reread your comment. The first time I thought you wrote my metaphor was punishable. Thank you though.
On the sugar. I asked my doc a few mos ago and he said, it's fine I checked it. Ya know about 10 years ago when I wasn't drinkin for a few years, hadn't been dx yet, I was drivin a delivery truck and I'd get this passion for gummy bears. Everyday. Knew the little stops around the state on my route that had my favorites. Noticed after I ate a bag(which I always did), I'd get real sleepy. Maybe first time probably I started to experience the fatique from this. I'd get fatiqued w/out the sugar, but that really kicked it in fast. Anyways I got in the habit of eatin them before bed if I couldn't sleep. Still grab some white bread(which I usually never eat) or some gummies or pudding if I wake and can't get back to sleep. Probably why I wake again in a few hrs, bodies lookin for the carbs or sugar. But it does get me sleepy. Must be some correlation huh?
Don
I found out I had this disease in part because of my sugar...I was having dizzy spells, went to a neuro, he did all kinds of MRI's etc, found a Pititutary Microadenoma (small tumor, pretty harmless) put me on meds for years, yada yada, still with the dizzy spells...finally he said, hmmm let me check your sugar, bam it was as low as 34 at one point...soooooo off to an endoctrine doc who orders CT of my pancreas, doesn't see anything...he was an a-hole and I didn't want to keep seeing him (mean to nurses, smelled like cigarettes, dirty, second hand store, burn hole in his suit jacket,yuk)sooooo time passes...I am getting many infections that other people are not...go to my regular doc and mention all this so they do liver enzyme tests which by the way had been off in the past but nothing was ever done...and I tell them do the HCV test...so since the liver controls and regulates sugar levels, if it's not working properly, you will have a dumping of sugar when it should be storing it and voila! low sugar levels. Sometimes my sugar is high, not that high but not in the correct range...Same for cholesterol, low levels show liver problems...
Cin
<i>I have been "goggling" it all day</i>
I've been 'goggling" some today myself, and I think the secretaries are starting to get peeved. Time to switch to some dark glasses, or maybe I should stroll on down to the yoga studio down the street.....
<i>since the liver controls and regulates sugar levels, if it's not working properly, you will have a dumping of sugar when it should be storing it and voila!</i>
I've had mild blood sugar issues for years. Mostly low, so I get nervous, shakey and irritable when I don't eat. Sometimes blood tests would pop-up elevated, then retests would be OK. It seems to correlate to my fitness level, the better shape I'm in, the better I can modulate eating and keep things on an even keel. It's been pretty good for a couple years.
hey buddy, how you be?
how'd the trip go? is dad okay?