northernstars
11-27-2007, 02:31 PM
I guess I am being a bit of a brat, but oh well! Just a few days after reading and learning about raw foods I had a massive stroke most likely caused by sleep apnea. While in the hospital the doctors started me on a bunch of medicines which I do not want to take but am having a hard time convincing my family that they are not healthy! They have bought into the pharmaceutical philosophy that the drugs are necessary!
I only buy organic fresh foods, drink green smoothies and eat high quality fruits and other vegetables and raw nuts. I also sprout seeds and some nuts. Why would I want to contaminate my body with dreadful chemicals? I also make and drink kombucha tea because that got me off six prescriptions a day several years ago when my body was so acidic from meds then so I knew it would help again. When I got out of the hospital in June I had already started again with asthma. Now the asthma is gone again.
I am hoping that I will be able to toss the two blood pressure meds and the thyroid meds, too. If I can get rid of them, I should be able to toss the Nexium, too! I quit taking lipitor last week after my blood test showed that my cholesterol was at 103. My HDL was only at 38 which was up from the reading a couple months earlier and should be between 40-60 mg/dl . Even my LDL is low at 50 and it should be between 130-160 mg/dl. The triglycerides came in at 79 with the range being between 30-200. Chol/HDL was 2.71 and should have registered 3.43 - 4.97.
To get my message across today, I announced that I should also stop wasting our money on organic foods and just buy the garbage that is there at the store. And why eat the healthful food if I am going to undo the benefit of orgainc and raw by taking meds?
So, now I am going to see another doctor and see whether he will be willing to give me something that is akin to nourishing and helpful. My husband and family won't let me see the homeopath I was seeing before the stroke bacause he didn't prevent the stroke from happening even though he didn't know about the sleep apnea! And, my thyroid numbers were way off and I was being treated for my thyroid! I would still feel better seeing him than these other doctors and taking their meds.
Thanks for listening!
Sharon
I only buy organic fresh foods, drink green smoothies and eat high quality fruits and other vegetables and raw nuts. I also sprout seeds and some nuts. Why would I want to contaminate my body with dreadful chemicals? I also make and drink kombucha tea because that got me off six prescriptions a day several years ago when my body was so acidic from meds then so I knew it would help again. When I got out of the hospital in June I had already started again with asthma. Now the asthma is gone again.
I am hoping that I will be able to toss the two blood pressure meds and the thyroid meds, too. If I can get rid of them, I should be able to toss the Nexium, too! I quit taking lipitor last week after my blood test showed that my cholesterol was at 103. My HDL was only at 38 which was up from the reading a couple months earlier and should be between 40-60 mg/dl . Even my LDL is low at 50 and it should be between 130-160 mg/dl. The triglycerides came in at 79 with the range being between 30-200. Chol/HDL was 2.71 and should have registered 3.43 - 4.97.
To get my message across today, I announced that I should also stop wasting our money on organic foods and just buy the garbage that is there at the store. And why eat the healthful food if I am going to undo the benefit of orgainc and raw by taking meds?
So, now I am going to see another doctor and see whether he will be willing to give me something that is akin to nourishing and helpful. My husband and family won't let me see the homeopath I was seeing before the stroke bacause he didn't prevent the stroke from happening even though he didn't know about the sleep apnea! And, my thyroid numbers were way off and I was being treated for my thyroid! I would still feel better seeing him than these other doctors and taking their meds.
Thanks for listening!
Sharon