Digest Number 65
This is a reply to the message telling us that fluoride can slow down your
thyroid. So can HRT….the estrogen part anyway. So can Vitamin C in large
doses. I forgot that last week and put myself through a real spin.
Pam, I am an O too, 55 years old, overweight. I just started the diet 2 1/2
weeks ago. I’m at the point where if/when I slip, I REALLY feel it. Forgot
and had a half cookie. Wheat! Felt the result for 3 days. It’s
educational. I’ll watch out for wheat now. I agree with you that the
exercise makes the biggest difference. I already was swimming which was
making me feel awful afterward but was strengthening muscles. Discovered my
body much rather I do exercise that makes me all hot and sweaty. It must
clear out the lymph and make the much overloaded spleen happier. Just got a
biycle. Riding that is great for getting hot and sweaty. After a while, I
want to take a dancing class. Maybe folk dancing in the dead of winter…
or ballroom dancing.
Aikya
January 20th, 2003 at 3:51 pm
Aikya,
Well, this O hates to sweat, but I truly am learning to hate it less. Thanks
for the info on Vit C and thyroid. How much does it take to cause a
slowdown. I routinely take 1500 mg a day and much much more if I feel a cold
coming on, which is only every two or three years.
Pam
February 17th, 2003 at 2:40 am
In a message dated 10/16/1999 7:41:47 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
aikya@… writes:
<< Like a good Type O, I have blood clotting irregularities that are corrected
by vitamin C. If I increase my dosage, I have to taper off or I begin
developing bruises (not caused by injury) and sometimes bleeding here and
there. I have to increase the Vitamin C then before any kind of surgery or
the doctor or dentist will have to deal with a lot of bleeding and it will
continue after the surgery. I have to slowly decrease afterward also or the
bruising etc. happens.
Wow, so that is my problem. About four years ago I broke my leg and
shattered my knee. Just a stupid stumble carrying a 20# bag of cat food in
the dark and not paying attention to where I was walking. I twisted as I
went down and just snapped my femur. Surgery the next day and in intensive
care for another 24 hrs because my BP went down to 50 over 30 and they
couldn’t seem to get it up. I questioned the doctor and he just said it was
a bloody surgery, femoral artery you know, and not to worry. Two years ago I
had to have a bilateral hip replacement. I spoke to the new doctor at great
length and told him several times about the BP thing. They took a pint of my
blood to use after surgery. They recycle your own blood from the surgery for
24 hrs and then remove the machine and give you your pint back. It took
another pint (I hated taking strange blood) and still my BP was about 90 over
50 after a week. Once I got home it got better. But thank goodness I took
the Vit C. I don;t have any bruising or tummy problems with it. Thanks for
the info.
Pam