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Looks like I was right about the orange juice. Fasting blood sugar, 198. That little bit in and my body wants to go back to burning sugars. It is holding on, prepping to make the switch back. It loves sugars. Then again I knew this process was not bullet proof, that there would be mistakes, that a learning curve is involved. No problem, simply disappointing how many steps back that is. Well, back to the salt mines.
One thing I was considering, and have tried, but will be doing regularly, if doing extra testing regarding, is adding whole whipping cream to a darker tea or coffee (if I start coffee back up, which I am considering). I am thinking twice a day pretty much every day. I haven't, specifically, checked blood sugars with that going on. But I have done it on days on which I have hit lows. So if it is hurting, it isn't hurting blood sugar that much. That will keep some fat, right there, to help my body begin more easily seeking it for energy. If I keep the insulin low, the body has to chase something. If I put in just enough fat that it gets the scent? You guessed it. Well... in theory. Does anyone actually know? I mean, really? They might infer from this or that, or it might be highly suggested, but for the individual or anybody? I really don't believe they do know. They see something work, and infer that it is universal and guess why, nothing else.
My body felt like it didn't quite fit my bones a while back. It is starting to feel like that again. It feels like meat is sliding off bone, and things that used to be tight are loose. It is not a comfortable feeling. Though, I think, it is... probably about right. I suspect I will go through this for... six months? a year? Honestly though, I did actually gain most of my weight right at the beginning of my illness. They put me on the wrong meds, on top of my convalescence (which I never recouped out of, even to this day). Those stacked weight on top of my inactivity. So, I did put it all on in a year, maybe six months. It hasn't been years of abuse. Still, it has been on for decades. Though, at my worst, I weighed 350, 70 higher than what I have weighed for the last... fifteen years? Something like that. I have been down to 260, or close to it, several times. Never under it, and I think I got there more from being ill, or a trick the doctor gave me that shouldn't have worked. This time is the first time I, mostly, earned. Started with illness, then I figured out the trick... with a little more information from the web.
Yeah, feels like live meat sliding off living bone, loose areas where something used to be but is gone, and bones that don't have the taught support of skin and muscle they were used to knowing. It'll work itself out. I've truly never felt something quite so terribly odd. Slightly, sometimes more, painful. Not sure if anacin would help. Might take some just to know. Later.
Well, health problems? Heart replacement level bad heart (but it went untreated for 23 years, then was treated (mistreated?) for three to five, now I'm back to untreated for the last year or two... doing fine, within the givens. They can keep the heart transplant surgery... and medicine for what it was worth. The surgery is guaranteed death in three to maybe nine years, the medicine is not much better. I'll beat that. High blood pressure goes with that, though I bet that is coming down. Haven't checked in a bit.
ReplyDeleteAs for the otc's, thanks. I'll look into them. I am considering chromium (or something like it) and cinnamon. Really, it depends on what the product does, or is supposed to do. If it merely covers for a failure, or alters something that maybe it shouldn't, then I won't use it... save perhaps temporarily. If it helps the body heal, and is considered short term, I will more strongly consider it.
Oh, as to western, or eastern, medicines... always depends on who, to some degree. My guess if your tax return would give a normal a nosebleed, you can probably get decent health care (though you probably have to shop around even so). Find a place where the staff is all white, lily white really, and where some question and topics and people simply do not occur. Follow Hillary to her doc, for example.
As to Eastern? Which one. Many of the Easterners view us Westerners as Nimrods. Hmm... wait... some of us are. *grins* Just... not the termilogical sort. Anywhile... I know of this kung-fu of which you speak, and others. As with anything else, caution. I'm not sure how well versed they are these days. When the world goes to hell in a handbasket, it's everywhere.
Thanks for the comment and suggestion. I'll... go looking.