Doctor Melling thinks my slow weight loss may be due to Lyrica, Abilify, and/or my PCOS.
Wants Dr Langton My endocrinologist to check my thyroid, my hormones levels, etc for PCOS and Cushings. I see Langton next Thursday.
Starting on Tramadol for my Fibromyalgia.
Back on Glucophage. Stopped Glypizide.
Gonna start aquatic therapy for my fibromylagia in Sept at St Lukes Therapy.
Spoke to My Gastric Bypass nurse about my exploratory surgery. Found adhesions in my small bowel and EVERYTHING ELSE WAS NORMAL!
Praise Jesus!
Went to Walmart grocery shopping.
Ate at the Gondolier. Had a childs portion of Ravioli. I only ate 2.5 of them. DUMPED like crazy after wards. UGH!
Sugar is almost back to normal. Thinking the abnormal high glucose levels might have been a stress reaction to the surgery.
Fed-Ex delivered my Cuisinart Frozen Yogurt, Ice Cream, and Sorbet Maker. Gonna make No Sugar added, high protein, low fat ice cream. Been craving ice cream! YUM!
Love and Prayers to my beloved John. Pray he is sleeping well.
Prayers to my Aunt Earlene who is in the hospital with a stroke or Bells Palsy.
Thanks Jesus for everything. I feel much better knowing that all is well with my gastric bypass surgery. I know I will continue to lose weight.
My sugar has been everywhere from 90 to 487 this week. That in itself is draining.
Slept around 6 hours last night. Was up till 6 am though
Having a wonderful time getting closer to my baby LoveJohn. He is the greatest. A few times in the past week he has had on his business attire and looking so debonair and HOT… which he always does but a dress shirt is so lovely on him. Once this week he had on a white linen casual shirt.. unbuttoned a lil.. Thought I was gonna faint with desire!
I am now on Buspar, Lyrica, Cymbalta and Trazodone for my Fibromylagia, Neuropahy, Social Anxiety,Insomnia and Depression. I also take Novolog Insulin through my insulin pump. Plus Atenolol for my heart rate. Synthroid for my Thyroid. Glypizide for my diabetes. Aygestin for my Endometrial Hyperplasia. Hormone. Plus over 10 vitamins daily. Some days the vitamins make me so nauseous… But I need them.
My hair is fill falling out by the handfuls. I swear I am gonna end up bald before it levels out. Good Thing is that my hair is coming back in quickly. My Hypothyroid is the main culprit. That should get better soon as my synthroid dosage was lowered.
Been having weird legs craps. Not normal calf ones.. these are in the side of my leg above my ankle. Ugh.. So painful.
I had gained 5 lbs. I have lost 2.8 of those lbs this week. Watching my carb intake helps tremendously.
Ate 1/4th cup of homemade spaghetti and meat sauce for supper and it made me ill.
My Irritable Bowel probs comes and goes. Had more than a few accidents while I was sleeping this past month. UGH. What a mess. Some days all I have is diarrhea and others constipation. Not pleasant in the least.
Since I have been losing hair and had to Cut it short I ordered a HUMAN HAIR Wig.. Should be here on Monday. Can’t wait to have hair flowing down my back again. Now just hope I can get my hair to match the wig perfectly. I ordered a 3/4 wig which means my front hair will go over the wig and blend. I use to wear wigs all the time about 16 years ago. Love being able to change my style often. I bore easily.
My love and Prayers to Bret, His family, friends, and fans.
Having lots of visitors from Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska…. Makes me wonder if it is Bret’s family since that is where he and his family members reside. Hmmmm…. Curious.
We (Dad, Rosie and I) bought more domain websites this week. My family now owns 48 websites. Now just getting them all up and running. Wish us luck!
Excited about Google RUMORED Tablet which is like the Ipad but better. Can’t wait for more news on it. I want one!
Wondering if I have another UTI. My sugar has been swinging wildly and it is often due to an UTI. Seemsl ike I am urinating too much and too often. I have lab work on my Kidneys on Tuesday so I guess we will find out then.
Will prolly be going grocery shopping tomorrow. Pray that I don’t have a panic attack.. which I often do!
Was gonna go shower but just realized it is 3:45 AM!
I have hair oil on … slept it in last night and looks like I will sleep in it tonight. Using jojoba oil, sweet almond oil with Lemon essential oils for a nice scent. My scalp is so itchy lately. Feels like I have salt grains and sores in it, Sure it is related to my hypothyroid.
The range of sodium content for a sampling of foods available at the supermarket:
Food type
Serving size
Range in milligrams
Breads
1 oz.
95-210
Frozen pizza, plain, cheese
4 oz.
450-1200
Frozen vegetables
cup
2-160
Potato chips
1 oz.
120-180
Pretzels
1 oz.
290-560
Salad dressing, regular fat
2 tbsp.
110-505
Salsa
2 tbsp.
150-240
Soup, tomato, reconstituted
8 oz.
700-1260
Tomato juice
8 oz.
340-1040
Tortilla chips
1 oz.
105-160
How to reduce sodium in your diet:
*Buy fresh, frozen or canned “with no salt added” vegetables.
*Use fresh poultry, fish and lean meat rather than canned or processed foods.
*Use herbs, spices and salt-free seasoning blends in cooking and at the table.
*Cook rice, pasta and hot cereals without salt. Cut back on instant or flavored rice, pasta and cereal mixes, which usually have added salt.
*Choose convenience foods that are lower in salt. Cut back on frozen dinners, pizza, packaged mixes, canned soups or broths and salad dressings, all of which often have a lot of salt.
*Rinse canned foods, such as tuna, to remove some of the salt.
*Whenever possible, choose low- or reduced-sodium products.
AP) — Public health experts urged the Food and Drug Administration Tuesday to force food makers to gradually cut the salt hidden inside their products, something the agency is considering.
Americans eat about 11/2 teaspoons of salt daily, more than double what they need for good health — and high enough to increase risk of high blood pressure and other problems. Most of that sodium comes inside common processed foods — from soups to frozen pizza to sliced cheese.
Tuesday, the prestigious Institute of Medicine said the food industry hasn’t done enough to voluntarily cut back. It urged FDA to set maximum sodium levels for different foods in a stepwise rollback, so people have time to adjust to the change.
The FDA hasn’t decided whether to regulate sodium levels, but “no options are off the table,” said spokeswoman Meghan Scott.
“There is no initiative at the moment,” she said. But, “there is very little debate any longer over the impact sodium has.”
The IOM is an independent agency chartered by Congress to advise the federal government, and is just the latest in a string of health groups to pressure the FDA in recent years to cut the salt.
The American Medical Association has said that if the salt in processed and restaurant food were cut in half over 10 years, that ultimately 150,000 lives a year could be saved.
One in three U.S. adults has high blood pressure, in turn a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. And while being overweight and inactive raises blood pressure, too much salt is a big culprit as well.
Government guidelines set 2,300 milligrams of sodium as the maximum daily intake — the amount above which health problems can appear. But the IOM says people need just 1,500 mg a day, even less if they’re over 50. Yet average consumption is more than 3,400 mg.
Major foods makers have started reducing sodium in recent years, but have argued that they don’t have tasty ways to replace sodium for deep cuts — and they fear consumer backlash as the taste changes.
But specialists say people do gradually get used to the taste of less sodium.
“The best way to accomplish this is to provide companies the level playing field they need so they are able to work across the board to reduce salt in the food supply,” said Dr. Jane E. Henney of the University of Cincinnati, a former FDA commissioner who chaired the IOM report.
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer Lauran Neergaard, Ap Medical Writer 42 mins ago
WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration says it will consider a new call Tuesday to force food makers to gradually cut the salt hidden inside their products — but don’t expect less salty soups, pizzas or pastas any time soon.
Americans eat about 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt daily, more than double what they need for good health and high enough to increase risk of high blood pressure, strokes and other problems. Most of that sodium doesn’t come from the table salt-shaker — it’s hidden inside common processed foods and restaurant meals.
Major foods makers have started reducing sodium in recent years, but have argued that they don’t have tasty ways to replace sodium for deep cuts — and they fear consumer backlash as the taste changes.
On Tuesday, the prestigious Institute of Medicine said the food industry hasn’t done enough to voluntarily cut back. Echoing earlier calls from the American Medical Association and other health groups, the IOM urged the government to set maximum sodium levels for different foods in a stepped rollback — so that eventually, the average consumption would drop by about half a teaspoon.
A gradual reduction would let people adjust to the change in flavor.
“We don’t believe this is a fast project by any means,” said Dr. Jane E. Henney of the University of Cincinnati, a former FDA commissioner who headed the IOM’s study. “We think it’s important and imperative to get started, but we think this will probably take years to accomplish.”
The FDA hasn’t decided whether to regulate sodium levels, but “no options are off the table,” said spokeswoman Meghan Scott.
“A lot would have to be done before any decision is made to regulate sodium levels,” Scott said. But, “there is very little debate any longer over the impact sodium has.”
The IOM is an independent agency chartered by Congress to advise the federal government, and is just the latest in a string of health groups to pressure the FDA in recent years to cut the salt.
The American Medical Association has said that if the salt in processed and restaurant food were cut in half over 10 years, that ultimately 150,000 lives a year could be saved.
One in three U.S. adults has high blood pressure, in turn a leading cause of heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. And while being overweight and inactive raises blood pressure, too much salt is a big culprit as well.
Government guidelines set 2,300 milligrams of sodium as the maximum daily intake — the amount above which health problems can appear. But the IOM says people need just 1,500 mg a day, even less if they’re over 50. Yet average consumption is more than 3,400 mg.
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