Re: Anti Inflammatory Diet and Diabetes


Quentin Grady wrote:
G'day G'day Gys,

You are an absolute gem. I spent the night before last sleeping in
the accident and emergency department thanks to an allergic reaction
to Synflex (naproxen) I came up with red measles like spots that
covered my body. At first I thought I had be bitten by a mosquito. We
get a few mosquitoes but they are relatively rare here. Within
minutes I was covered in rash. My wife had the presence of mind to get
me to take a fast acting Razene (cetirizine hydrochloride)
antihistamine tablet and we took off to an out patients. The doctor
did a quick inspection and ordered an ambulance to take me to the
local base hospital.

It is a bit of a long story as to how I came to be in this situation.
I had, had aching rib pain. The pain wasn't the lightening bolt pain
associated with the fractured vertebrae, rather an awful ache
aggravated by movement. My GP was away and the substitute was at a
loss to its cause. He fell back on the standard GP's routine of
testing by pharmacology ... try a drug and if that didn't show an
improvement in a couple of days then it wasn't whatever that drug
acted on. Inflammation was a passivity so he prescribed the naproxen
since it wasn't of the same family as the diclofenac that I had been
shown to be allergic to. Well that reconnoiter by fire approach ended
promptly when two hours after the first tablet my skin erupted.

My stay in hospital was pleasant enough. I slept in a lazyboy
recliner chair. They don't give a fraction of the lateral stability of
the Taylor recliner made locally yet I slept well. This time the ecg
was taken with me in the recliner. I can be done without any problems.
That was reassuring since the worse pain was in the bones called the
sternum over the heart and referred pain was a possibility. The long
and short of it was I had IV hydrocortisone, some morphine, the
obligatory diabetic toast with margarine (I could have had muesli.
Diabetic to them means without butter. The margarine is
polyunsaturated ie inflammation inducing.) I rigorously stick to a
strategy of not speaking out. The response one gets to challenging
people about diet is irrational and when one places oneself in a
dependent situation one needs rational behaviour from all concerned.

OK, so why are you a gem, Gys. Well I am more and more struck with
the personal reality that I can't depend on synthetic
anti-inflammatory compounds. That means I need high quality
information on how to reduce inflammation naturally. BTW, some of you
will have noticed that the substitute GP never tested for
inflammation, silent or otherwise. It was pure speculation that
inflammation might have been the cause.

As for the actual cause. I suspect that the young intern's diagnosis
in the A and E is spot on ... my bones are distorting under the strain
of the swelling bone marrow thanks to the multiple myeloma. The old
foe has returned. The battle field for the new foe is to be examined
today by the a surgeon. It all happens and with a bit of luck we'll
keep on keeping on.

Best wishes and thanks.

BTW. I don't entirely agree with their choice of anti-inflammatory
diet. The red meat, white meat division is a bit suspect. Ostrich for
instance is red meat but range fed so likely to be non-inflammatory.

Just wanted to say I was sorry to hear you had yet one more hurdle to
jump over and hope that you recover from it quickly.

Best,
Kurt

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