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Started 6 months ago by needtocleanhouse
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needtocleanhouse
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I'm sure there are lots of health related stuff to declutter. In response to a post on ATAD I've started this thread.

DMO3: Per my post on ATAD to you, here's the new thread. May I suggest joining the uncluttered diet thread and the uncluttering fat threads - to address food plans (which may help with your various health things). Is there a state agency that might be able to help you either get coverage (some states offer state coverage for under or uninsureds who qualify) or provide health care? Perhaps a medical study you could join? Support group that might help? Hospitals have social workers who might know of different avenues of help for you. You could check with them. It sounds like you may be helped by someone who knows the system and can help guide you through it. It sounds like a nightmare.

I went to an interesting deluttering health related stuff presentation last night. I'll post more about it later. Have to go now.

Posted 6 months ago #
DivorcedMotherOf3
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Thanks, NTCO.

Sadly, there's not really any help for the uninsured in my income bracket. I could lie, but won't do that. The medical studies I've seen for migraine involve either Botoxing around the nerves in my face (not doing that) or implanting a device by my brain stem (not doing that either!)

I've searched and searched for some form of health care I can afford, and it all comes back down to I just can't cover $600 a month on prescriptions for two $10 a day pills and no-one else wants to, either.

Diet won't help the migraines, unfortunately, as they are atypical and not caused by anything I eat or don't eat. The ulcer is pretty much sheer damage done from major stress in my life due to abuse when I was still a teen - not really diet related either. It goes away completely when properly medicated, and I've tried dozens of diet options with virtually no variance in symptoms when unmedicated.

But thanks! I know a lot of people with health problems who swear they have cured them by some form of diet, so I won't ever knock it if it works for them!

Although I find I must often resist punching in the face the fifty thousandth person who tells me if I just take some St John's Wort and 'grieve' the web of skin between my finger and thumb by pinching it really, really hard all my health problems will miraculously disappear :) At least they aren't telling me to pray hard enough and it will go away (I think I DID punch the last person who told me I just didn't have enough 'faith' and that my health issues were God's 'punishment'!)

Posted 6 months ago #
Zora
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DMO3: I just lost my Medicaid. My caseworker said that my income was $19.10 a month too high. Of course, I can't afford health insurance. I can only hope that I don't get seriously ill in the next ten months. After that, I'll qualify for Medicare.

What is infuriating is that if the American health system were run like the English system, or the French, or the Canadian ... we could cover EVERYONE for the same amount of money that is now spent on Medicaid and Medicare.

Posted 6 months ago #
DivorcedMotherOf3
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Zora, that's AWFUL. I can't understand how they think this system works.... but don't try and tell the right that! That makes you a nasty hippie looking for a hand out communist! #wouldput*LOL*butnotreallyfunny

Posted 6 months ago #
mili
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Zora, the british NHS is pretty screwy, don't you worry. They had a great thing going there, but thirteen years of labor coming hot on the heels of 15 of Thatcher et al put paid to that nicely.

The Canadian system is supposed to be a lot better run, and I can't speak for the french because it's a while since I did any research on that. But the Brit version sucks - they've plenty of complaints, and all of them justifiable.

Really, the problem is that since the late 70s/early 80s there's been something akin to all-out ideological warfare against public healthcare in the west (the welfare state in general, TBH, but public healthcare is right up there at the forefront). Some people (whose asses I would take great delight in kicking into next week) act like staying alive and moderately healthy is a privilege one must earn, not a right.

And now I'm gonna stop because I feel a big-ass rant building, building...

Shutting up now :-)

Posted 6 months ago #
luxcat
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DOMO3: as a fellow migraine sufferer (among other health issues) my heart goes out to you. I laughed when you said you wanted to smack the last person who told you you needed more faith- I nearly smacked a therapist once who suggested that yoga would fix all my (rather indepth) problems. Needless to say she was promptly fired. Hang in there, life has a way of changing seasons.

PS: don't give up entirely on natural remedies, I'm a firm believer in western medicine but got no relief for some of my more significant health issues until an OTC supplement turned out to actually work.

Posted 6 months ago #
needtocleanhouse
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luxcat: Which one? I must have been an herbalist is a former life or the adoptive mother of Ayla in Clan of the Cave Bear. These things are very interesting to me.

Posted 6 months ago #
luxcat
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NTCH: 5-HTP (the chemical step between tryptophan and serotonin, made from the seeds of an african plant). I have a variety of health issues mostly trackable to low serotonin levels, with the biggest offenders being fibromyalgia and migraines. My pain levels are significantly lower, my energy is much better because my body isn't in such constant pain, and I have had ONE migraine in 4 months after I started taking 100mg a night of 5-HTP. Warning: you can't take this if you are taking any other serotonin affecting drug, or you could have serious/life threatening side fx... talk to your Dr first...

Posted 6 months ago #
MTNgirl
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I recently watched the documentary Forks Over Knives and just read the book. They talk about a whole foods, vegan diet. There is something interesting information there. I am not sure I could go entirely vegan, but we have reduced the amount of red meat we eat and meat overall. Diet may not be a cure-all, but it is worth investigating!

I have read something somewhere about Serotonin levels and the gut and tryptophan and low levels causing multiple problems. The 5-HTP is interesting. I am going to to a little reading! Thanks!

Posted 6 months ago #
needtocleanhouse
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Thanks luxcat! Sounds amazing and sounds like you found something that works wonders for you! Congratulations. Be proactive I always say. Like MTNgirl I'll be doing some reading on it. I know a couple of people with fibromyalgia and I'll pass the information on to them as well as look into it for myself in relation to serotonin (I've wondered if mine are low).

Posted 6 months ago #
Netleigh
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Mili,
Please don't be too judgemental over the British NHS! Do you have personal experience of it not working?

No one goes without medication for chronic conditions, there are arguments over really cutting edge and expensive drugs but there at least is an attempt to provide value for money and a degree of equity in healthcare.
Emergency care is provided to everyone, no need to prove you can pay before the ambulance or hospital will scoop you up.
Routine hospital care may require time on a waiting list, in general you will get treated, just not this week or month if it's not urgent.

It's not perfect but a lot better than the situation in the USA where a huge profit is made by companies and a lot of people have no health care. My biggest worry is that the current government seem to want to put the NHS into the hands of profiteers to the detriment of the common good.

Posted 6 months ago #
needtocleanhouse
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luxcat: I don't know if it's the power of suggestion or immediate relief but on the first day I didn't have sugar cravings. Thanks so much for mentioning it! I'll be passing on the information to others so you may have helped a lot of people.

Posted 6 months ago #
needtocleanhouse
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Related to anticandida dieting

http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/

Posted 6 months ago #
needtocleanhouse
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Anyone heard of LSA Pro?

Posted 6 months ago #
luxcat
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NTCH: hope it's working for you. I started my second month on it and was getting too groggy so I think I need to scale down my dose. from what I've read it's not a supplement to stay on forever, just as long as you need it- maybe I'm coming to that point!

Posted 6 months ago #
needtocleanhouse
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luxcat: Yes, it seemed to work from the get go for moi. So far I am liking it best to take immediately after dinner, 100 mg. But I will experiment with scaling it down to 50 or even 25. I read you can pull the capsule apart and put the powder in water and drink it that way. I'd posted somewhere earlier to thank you for letting us know about it. If it increases serotonin then yes, maybe you are coming to the point where you have enough. Too much and it might be dangerous - for the same reason they say (internet search) not to take it with certain meds or drugs or even an illegal drug like LSD - something about having too much serotonin. It does seem to take away sugar and carb cravings which is why I became interested in it.

Posted 6 months ago #
needtocleanhouse
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PS luxcat: since it works to increase serotonin, the amount to take may depend on how much stress there is at the moment - since you're on vacation (yes?) maybe you need less. I'm reasoning that stress depletes serotonin while relaxation does not or maybe even increases it. Just a theory.

Posted 6 months ago #
needtocleanhouse
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45194347/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/#.TtMh-7JHd5A

Posted 5 months ago #
needtocleanhouse
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I found this to be a very interesting article for cholesterol, arthritis, and cold sores.

http://www.jpost.com/LifeStyle/Article.aspx?id=246981

Posted 5 months ago #

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