What have you done for your health lately?

That is all I have been doing today...talking with my health insurance advice line coach...getting graph paper, pens, and blood pressure monitor, and food for next week so I can go on an no sugar, no cholestrol, low soldium diet.. Makes me "bitchy"...I mean it...I see so many fat slobs out there and I wonder why me, why do I have health problems, I've been living off soup here lately because I don't HAVE the money for food, given up meat nearly.,.,.,they drink...like wino's and alkies "galore"...party! party! party!...they eat crap four times more the volume then I do.... and why they are NOT having to put up with all this is beyond me. So now I get to follow myself around every day for 3 months...writing...water intake, medications, food I ate, blood pressure readings, excerise daily, telling what I did for the day and how I feel. Makes me "angry" vicious...violent almost. Sue my blood pressure right now if much lower then is yours..doctor says mine is "uncontrolled"...it is 69 points lower then is yours. My PH My balance is to low.....by 2 points....so I get an diabetes test for that one. My trigycerides are 616..high...shold be 125...they never have been able to deal with my HDLl/LDL levels.  They didnt' take my LDL because my HDL leval was so badly off...it's to low. Glucose reading was real high also. I got screamed at.."orders" galore...and you can dam well bet they will find an way for me to pay top dollar for all the hell they put me through. I am not just "Happy" tonight at all. I spent all morning long talking to the advice nurse...I'll see what she sends out to me. She said she'd be calling me back in an week or so and see if I received what was sent... and try to answers any questions I have then also. I also have to find an new primary doctor the last ditto caused me problems by diagnosis an artery closign problem and "old age"...arthurtis. My hands are black and blue and my arm is black and blue form an simple "blood test"..I have this cyst on my finger..some kind of neuological problem...he thinks could be diabetes...and I told him it's from the shingles and showed him my latest small "break-outs"... But I get tested anyway. The low PH may be from to much asprin daily also. Anyway it all starts next week. I went out opf my grocery budget to buy my food and what I got for me is generally what both of us have, plus an little for the pantry for later on....as I often find myself feeding my kids/grandkids or my sister at sometime during the year...when I'm " gone"...guess they get to go without. That is my opinion these days..."drop dead" if there isn't money in it for us to know you. I am " exahusted" from running around today..I'm going for now.

Ruth...nurse said today all kinds of people she knows are diabetics and never hardly touch sweets...she says its the carbohydrates that turn to sugar that got them where they are. Pasta, potatoes, white flour/bread, fast food, to much rice product, to much meat....and most often to much of the wrong fats. You cook with olive oil and nothing but, spray it on yoru toast for butter and throw the container out the door...you use stevia for sweetener and nothing else...you throw out the salt shaker...the soda pops...booze of any kind. You don't smoke, you eat veggies over fresh fruit even and fish for your main meat, if any, chicken second....anfd then your suppose to smile and be "happy"....I cold spit on the ground about now in retribution!  

Ladies I wouldn't swop places with you for anything anyone could offer me.  I genuinely don't worry about my health, my colestrol, blood pressure or anything else for that matter.  If I don't know about it I can't worry about it.  I take echinacea everyday as an immune booster and a couple of over the counter pills for aches & pains and for the little aspirin in them and that is it!

It is possible that you could say I actually ignore my health, but I am not constantly worrying about it and (touch wood) I am really fairly healthy.  And now I hope I won't have to eat my words, LOL.

Since taking the echinacea (about two years now) I haven't had a bad dose of colds or flu at all.  Could be luck but I'm not going to stop taking them! lol.

I generally only have one meal a day - obviously the medical  profession wouldn't like that - but I am really uncomfortable if I eat more than this.

I applaud you, Krissy!

We know now that those same chemicals in plastics harm our bodies as well as the environment.  

I was thinking the same thing yesterday.

When my Doctor suggested yet another medication for my cholesterol, I couldn't help but wonder how my parent and grandparents, aunts and uncles ever lived to be so old. They didn't know what their blood pressure was, or there cholesterol or BMI, bone density and all the other things that we run to the Doctors for. 

My cholesterol is obviously a genetic thing, as I eat a pretty decent diet, so I'm thinking I will just let nature take its course.

Not saying I want to die young, I definitely DON'T. But you can worry yourself into an early grave, I swear you can.  

It's good to be pro-active, but not obsessive.  

I am feeling better today...I had to replace an BP monitor and get the other type though. I got my graph set up to do daily also on that part..I'm half in and half out this weekend....kind of adding an ferw things to eat I know I won't get for an bit, once I start.  Yesterday was also an big nasty geomagnetic storm and they send me through the roof most the time...I have yet to know if it was earth bound or not. If it is... we may rock and roll somewhere on planet earth.

Sunday is the Scout Memorial Day singing that my grandson was

practing for the other day and then next week they practice holding the flags for the Jr. Rose Parade. I called my sister in-law today to find they are back in Springfield, Mo. this week...I didn't get the chance to ask her if one of them had their houses damage...she just said she went back to get her things from the summer before she married my brother.

About 12 days ago I went to the Ermergecy clinic near my house and they made it an point to take note I had my blood pressure down 40 points sinc ethe last time I had seen them...she showed me it was 140 over something....and when I went to the doctor's office he said it was 158...and when I bought this new monitor I took it and it read 138....whom do I beleive as to the truth being told?  I like my cardologist but he's also an pill pusher...something my health insurance won't let him get away with...as I've told them repeadedly...I can not afford all the prescriptions he hands out.. The three I ususally get are $900..I have to pay 30 per cent out of my pocket on it. Not to mention various little side line prescriptions like diretics also that I only take once in an while.I had gotten off of two of them...from other doctors/dentist last year. He just absouletly INSISTS I have to have them. there are other things out on the market that do as well an jobfor an third the expense you know. Healthnet is an very good insurance to have...they stick by their guns as to their customers. My idea of good health is curing the problem..not an constant " treament" therapy. I see nothing wrong iwth the lab tests because they give me an idea of how things are going...but I don't like when they don't send me the papers before they send him the papaers...that does not help me catch an possible "mistake" of some kind. I explained that to the nurse the other day...if I were to call to find out why they were not sent...and they couldn't find them because there was an problem...all they would have to do is ask the doctorand being they sent him one...he'd send an copy to them... to send to me...and it could be incorrect. This is one of the small reasons why hospitals today are making big mistakes. This is why my dad died...one hosptial di done thing and hospice did another thing...and one wasn't keeping track of the other...they gave him incompatilbe prescriptions....he died when the meds were in his blood stream enough to "re-act" to each other....home Friday...dead Sunday morning...I asked my step-mother how he died..she gave me two different stories and then finally said...he got up to go to the bathroom and keeled over in the bathroom....an person with lingering problems doesn't die that suddenly. I question my brother in-law's dismiss also but in both cases...I could do nothing about it...takes thier wives to know what tod do and when. When I saw his medications they had gven me I went home an looked them up...sure enough..."incompatible" with each other. Doctors should not feel offended by being careful.... others checking on thier medications.For one they encourage an doctor for each thing needing done or taken care of any more. I didn' tthink I was off my diet as badly this last winter...I had no oven to cook with....we had no "holdiays" here and there were not big "left-overs" to dip into later on....couldn't make any gifts like cookies either...so there wasn't any cheating on eating them perhaps either. I could hardly get out of bed in December and by January when I broke out in "Shingles" I was just exasperated in painand could care less if I ate....that went into January before I could really get up and on my feet more or less also. I still think I'm suffering an bit from Neuralgia from it even yet and I told him so..he says...well, you are going to need an diabetes test...your blood sugar real high...and I'm thinking..from what?..... You got to  eat it first. Ithink I will slowly though start keeping an eye on him and his tests...I will give him an benefit of the doubt...as I ususally go on an summer diet anway every year...just to try to keep the weight controlled though I do need to lose more. But they say "yo-yo" dieting is notgood either. David offered to lipo-suction off 30 poounds overnight for me, but I can't afford it. He said he could maybe get it on an medical necessity so it would be paid for ...but even then..they charge "top dollar" and its out of sight for me. He is correct though in that once the fat cells are gone...there' s no fat that CAN be stored.For now,,I suffer through.... and see how far I can get on my own. 

That's a sad story about your dad, Shirley. I worry about my mil, she's on so many different pills, and a couple of different doctors. 

I hope you get your blood pressure down. 158 is rather high. I would trust the medical BP numbers over anything you have in the home. At work, we've found the wrist cuffs to be highly inaccurate.  

The body converts allot of foods into sugar, so you don't have to be eating sugary foods as such to have high blood sugars. Definitely something to keep your eye on, as diabetes is a devestating disease, and not something you want, especially if you already have other medical issues.

Good luck with insurances. What a mess! 

I've dropped another 4 lbs. - 25 more to go by the end of the year.

I read that brisk walking actually burns more fat than strenuous exercise.  Once you walk at a normal pace for 10 minutes, you use up all the readily available energy in your bloodstream, and so your metabolism kicks into fat burning mode if you pick up the pace and keep your heart rate up for 30-60 minutes.  So I asked my dog Denzil to take me on longer and faster walks, and it seems to be working!

Great going, Ruth. 

I might have lost 2 lbs, but not much more.