Carlene
09-16-2005, 09:05 PM
This is what I posted in my journal:
I got my blood test results back. The Naturopath called and was all in a tizzy. "I need to see you, things need to be worked on." I told her I was not going to change anything I was currently doing until I lost all this weight. Then we would do more blood work and go from there. She agreed to fax me the results, but thought I should still be seen. Ahh, the supplement pushers of the world. I may have two problems I need to work on, my liver which is getting worse and I have too high a prolactin output.
I'm going to try and post 3 sets of results. My SAD results, my 3 months Vegan results and my 3.5 months Raw results. Along with the reference range of only those I have had or still have problems with. The * means it's within range. I don't have all the results from my Vegan test, I thought I did but can't find anything but the summary of out of range page.
Test......................Ref Range.................SAD..........Vegan........Ra w
TSH (Thyroid)...........45-4.5.................... 6.7H......... --- ........ .16L
Prolactin..................3.3-26.7..................32.0H......... ---.........43.3H
Glucose...................65-99......................100H...........102H....... ..91*
Urea Nitrogen (protien).. 8-25....................18*............ --- ........ 7L
Uric Acid.................2.2-6.5.....................7.2H............8.1H...... .9.0H
Cholesterol..............<200........................264H...........210H.... ...201H
Triglycerides............<150........................203H...........270H.... ...164H
LDL Chol Calc.........>130........................184H..........134H..... ...131H
VLDL Chol..............0-29.........................34H...........45H...... .....27*
Chol/HDL Ratio..........<4.5........................5.7H...........6.8H.... .....4.7H
ALT (Liver)...............2-4.6.......................48H............74H...... ....77H
AST(Liver)...............10-41.......................18*.............---..........74H
Iron........................35-175.....................75*.............---...........95*
TIBC (Iron)..............250-400...................343*............---..........246L
Hemoglobin A1c ..........<6.0.....................5.8*............6.3H...... ..6.0H
(Diabetes)
I don't know what she was so upset about. Things look like they are getting better to me. I would expect the lower protien, but hey, 1 point below what they think is normal can't be bad. The increase in Uric acid is understandable because I'm losing weight so fast. The cholesterol was disappointing. I was sure that was going to come back in the low hundreds. But I'm only 2 points over acceptable.
My liver is obviously going to need a lot more work. I could be over taxing it with the cleansing out of all this fat. It hasn't bothered me all month, so these results were surprising.
Anyway, I thought I would post these. True facts, nothing to go "Wow, raw is amazing," but let me add...my father died from diabetes. He gave up living 15 years before that. I'm real happy that I'm headed backward on that path. Even though the naturopath circled my triglyceride numbers many times, she must be nuts they have gone down considerably. She wrote next to that number "too many fruits and starch." So maybe I should go back to a SAD diet and jack them up by 30 points. Beside they are only 15 points over and I've just begun healing.
It will be interesting to see these results again in January or February when I am done losing weight and am a healthy raw.
I got my blood test results back. The Naturopath called and was all in a tizzy. "I need to see you, things need to be worked on." I told her I was not going to change anything I was currently doing until I lost all this weight. Then we would do more blood work and go from there. She agreed to fax me the results, but thought I should still be seen. Ahh, the supplement pushers of the world. I may have two problems I need to work on, my liver which is getting worse and I have too high a prolactin output.
I'm going to try and post 3 sets of results. My SAD results, my 3 months Vegan results and my 3.5 months Raw results. Along with the reference range of only those I have had or still have problems with. The * means it's within range. I don't have all the results from my Vegan test, I thought I did but can't find anything but the summary of out of range page.
Test......................Ref Range.................SAD..........Vegan........Ra w
TSH (Thyroid)...........45-4.5.................... 6.7H......... --- ........ .16L
Prolactin..................3.3-26.7..................32.0H......... ---.........43.3H
Glucose...................65-99......................100H...........102H....... ..91*
Urea Nitrogen (protien).. 8-25....................18*............ --- ........ 7L
Uric Acid.................2.2-6.5.....................7.2H............8.1H...... .9.0H
Cholesterol..............<200........................264H...........210H.... ...201H
Triglycerides............<150........................203H...........270H.... ...164H
LDL Chol Calc.........>130........................184H..........134H..... ...131H
VLDL Chol..............0-29.........................34H...........45H...... .....27*
Chol/HDL Ratio..........<4.5........................5.7H...........6.8H.... .....4.7H
ALT (Liver)...............2-4.6.......................48H............74H...... ....77H
AST(Liver)...............10-41.......................18*.............---..........74H
Iron........................35-175.....................75*.............---...........95*
TIBC (Iron)..............250-400...................343*............---..........246L
Hemoglobin A1c ..........<6.0.....................5.8*............6.3H...... ..6.0H
(Diabetes)
I don't know what she was so upset about. Things look like they are getting better to me. I would expect the lower protien, but hey, 1 point below what they think is normal can't be bad. The increase in Uric acid is understandable because I'm losing weight so fast. The cholesterol was disappointing. I was sure that was going to come back in the low hundreds. But I'm only 2 points over acceptable.
My liver is obviously going to need a lot more work. I could be over taxing it with the cleansing out of all this fat. It hasn't bothered me all month, so these results were surprising.
Anyway, I thought I would post these. True facts, nothing to go "Wow, raw is amazing," but let me add...my father died from diabetes. He gave up living 15 years before that. I'm real happy that I'm headed backward on that path. Even though the naturopath circled my triglyceride numbers many times, she must be nuts they have gone down considerably. She wrote next to that number "too many fruits and starch." So maybe I should go back to a SAD diet and jack them up by 30 points. Beside they are only 15 points over and I've just begun healing.
It will be interesting to see these results again in January or February when I am done losing weight and am a healthy raw.