Re: Bravo, I am alive.


"Ricavito" <newsgroupreader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Apr 22, 2:56 pm, "Ozgirl" <are_we_there_...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I continue with my BP med, even though it is no longer needed for BP,
for
other reasons. That's my only med I want to take at this point in time.
It's
not defiance, I just prefer to keep my body as drug free as possible. I
also
have bad reactions to a lot of meds. I think that if I ever have any
progression I can't reasonably control (i.e. without extreme exercise
programs or nutritional diet) then I will be hoping Byetta has been
approved
here.

I understand completely what you are saying Ozgirl. On doctor's
orders I have been off the ARB and metformin that were prescribed for
me, although I'm still taking Triamterene HCTZ and shooting Byetta. I
feel so remarkably better that I would have to think long and hard
about whether I would take them again, even if the trade off is a
higher potential for a cardiac event. Honestly, my quality of life is
much higher. But unfortunately, so is my BG. I've been waking up
with 160s, even 180s. But that could have something to do with a
persistent UTI that I am now on a 4th antibiotic for. Or maybe the
higher BG is the reason for the UTI.

Now, if I could just eat more like your vegetable rich diet ! :-)

Lol, my diet isn't everyone's cup of tea. I don't think I know anyone else
for example who has a bowl of leftover veggies as a bedtime snack :) This is
the person who until 21 never let anything other than a potato pass their
lips regarding vegetables, lol. A lot of my problems with veggies in the
early years were poverty-ruled. By the time I could actually afford to buy
decent food I really hated it. For many years of my life I had lived on
oatmeal 3 times a day, then once I started school it was oatmeal, jam
sandwich on white bread, coloured cordial to drink and for dinner it was
mostly cheap hamburger made into rissoles with fried chips or mashed potato.
Dessert, if ever, was hot jam tarts with cold milk (what's wrong with that I
say? lol).

When I decided to go to Weight Watchers with a sister in law and a 16 year
old niece at age 21 I found that I had to eat veggies or damn near starve!
That's where my love of vegetables began. My sister and I used to haunt
vegetarian restaurants and drag our meat and potatoes menfolk and kids with
us ;) the Havesome Wholesome restaurant was where I was introduced to raw
grated beetroot, lol.

Hunza pies were on the Sunday lunch menu instead of the traditional Sunday
roast ;) What our loved ones put up with ;) My eldest son, who is now 36,
loves to recall all these "weird" meals mum used to make. Soybean
croquettes..... Cakes with not a "white" ingredient in sight. My kids were
lucky actually, my sister's kids still talk of the wholegrain sandwiches
made of cottage cheese and chopped dates, lol. They couldn't even swap them
with other kids at school.

Those were good days, my youngest kids have no idea that there is a world
outside Mac n Cheese and Quarter Pounders.


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