K.G. I am really pleased to hear you are making progress.
I wish all improvement.
When I went to the Doctors a few weeks ago, I was seen by a Doctor, an Advanced Practitioner. Also a 'Scientist' occasionally makes contact by text.
I was only on one medication and the NHS Consultant, was most animated with me, demanding that I had to stop taking them straight away, so I did.
But have been prescribed another by the NHS A.P., to take only in the event if I need to.
So I'm not usually taking any Drug or Drug company substance or tablets, currently.
Yesterday, I saw a claim that 30% of people who take that medication I was on for more than two years, are more likely get dementia or similar condition.
I have turned even more to natural fresh foods containing natural nutrients (some are day to day fresh foods), which are FREE of added sugar and sweetener.
All my Advanced Practitioner can offer me, is to keep going and not give up, even though I get pain.
On virtual and the latest ultrasound scanning nothing can be seen at the location of the terrible pain which flares up, except a gaseous substance.
So I keep praying too, as I have passed a from 5 years, then a 20 year life expectancy, because of a brain condition diagnosed when I was 39 yrs. Then MIS inflammation in 2020.
A Consultant Specialist, was saying yesterday that there is a massive communication system (500 million nerves) between the Gastro-intestinal (the gut) system and the Brain and it seems a lot depends on what we eat and what we avoid, plus walks and rest.
For some reason the:-
humble tomato,
chewed walnuts, whole almonds (so that they become a paste before swallowing),
cucumber,
sardines, and some other fridge foods,
blueberries,
other berry types,
Kiwi fruit,
Fruits lowish in sugar, high in vitamins,
organic oats to make porridge with water,
cooked veg, lean meats and fish, e.g. Salmon,
extra mature cheddar,
hot milk organic cacao drinks,
one square off a 95% Dark Choc bar made with cocoa butter (no sweetener),
sliced banana on buttered sugar free wholemeal brown toasted bread, and sometimes dry Red Wine,
will bring the awful pain under control, which means I can avoid taking painkillers with their kidney and liver side effects.
DON'T Eat or Drink any of the above if you have an allergy to eating it, or been advised not to.
I am intolerant to added sugar and any sweeteners, they also seem to have been causing the pain elsewhere in the muscles (which is probably a form of arthritis).
A neighbour up the road has an identical condition and when I've been to A & E, a younger chap 3 years ago was having these awful pain spasms and cramps, I kept pressing the button for the nurse, for him. He told me he had the first Covid V and he was told you can't have the 2nd or another. So I mentioned, I had similar cramps, pains, bowel problems and how I cut out foods with added sugar and sweetener and he replied that he thought his problem was sugar and certain foods.
All I can do is to keep going, praying and keep positive.
Take care all, Mark
