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Post by silver on Sept 11, 2017 15:33:37 GMT -5
One point, I found out that all those years I wasn't getting heel spurs. Because of my flat feet there was extra stress in the main ligament that runs from the back to front of foot, that's what was getting sore. It's called (spelled phonetically) the lateral occuslar calsus. Other point, after 20 years, same doctor, another company made my second orthotics. After two tries they couldn't them right (story on that next tine) so the doctor went back to the first company, and they did beautifully, point of that, I understand how your orthotics didn't work out. .... Thanks for your story - gives me hope and maybe I should try again. I already emailed my podiatrist.
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Post by silver on Sept 12, 2017 13:24:02 GMT -5
We've sure covered a lot of ground - so wide and varied, I might add, on the quest to discover which is more important.
The below was from a conversation on another forum that I thought would add to our discussion here.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Sept 12, 2017 15:15:53 GMT -5
One point, I found out that all those years I wasn't getting heel spurs. Because of my flat feet there was extra stress in the main ligament that runs from the back to front of foot, that's what was getting sore. It's called (spelled phonetically) the lateral occuslar calsus. Other point, after 20 years, same doctor, another company made my second orthotics. After two tries they couldn't them right (story on that next tine) so the doctor went back to the first company, and they did beautifully, point of that, I understand how your orthotics didn't work out. .... Thanks for your story - gives me hope and maybe I should try again. I already emailed my podiatrist. Added note, after the two aborted tries with the new orthotic-maker, my doctor inquired. We-he knew they were computerized from my foot molds. But what we didn't know was that they combined the two feet (via computer), this is why they did not work (a significant difference between my feet). So, I would advise to inquire, make sure the orthotics are made from the actual mold of each foot. (To do otherwise, like the new company did, seems absolutely crazy to me). And, follow the break-in period as instructed, that is, slowly get used to them.
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Post by silver on Sept 12, 2017 15:28:30 GMT -5
Thanks for your story - gives me hope and maybe I should try again. I already emailed my podiatrist. Added note, after the two aborted tries with the new orthotic-maker, my doctor inquired. We-he knew they were computerized from my foot molds. But what we didn't know was that they combined the two feet (via computer), this is why they did not work (a significant difference between my feet). So, I would advise to inquire, make sure the orthotics are made from the actual mold of each foot. (To do otherwise, like the new company did, seems absolutely crazy to me). And, follow the break-in period as instructed, that is, slowly get used to them. Oh wow, to compose two orthotics out of a combination of both totally different (XD) feet is utterly crazy! I can't believe they did such a thing. o_0
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Post by silver on Sept 14, 2017 13:31:02 GMT -5
Someone on another forum had lost their mate, and was worried that he would be overcome with grief when he would meditate (that's what this particular thread was about and was asking for advice), and this morning, I read a response that talked about 'the best ever' post about grief on the internet): "Alright, here goes. I'm old. What that means is that I've survived (so far) and a lot of people I've known and loved did not. I've lost friends, best friends, acquaintances, co-workers, grandparents, mom, relatives, teachers, mentors, students, neighbors, and a host of other folks. I have no children, and I can't imagine the pain it must be to lose a child. But here's my two cents. I wish I could say you get used to people dying. I never did. I don't want to. It tears a hole through me whenever somebody I love dies, no matter the circumstances. But I don't want it to "not matter". I don't want it to be something that just passes. My scars are a testament to the love and the relationship that I had for and with that person. And if the scar is deep, so was the love. So be it. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are a testament that I can love deeply and live deeply and be cut, or even gouged, and that I can heal and continue to live and continue to love. And the scar tissue is stronger than the original flesh ever was. Scars are a testament to life. Scars are only ugly to people who can't see. As for grief, you'll find it comes in waves. When the ship is first wrecked, you're drowning, with wreckage all around you. Everything floating around you reminds you of the beauty and the magnificence of the ship that was, and is no more. And all you can do is float. You find some piece of the wreckage and you hang on for a while. Maybe it's some physical thing. Maybe it's a happy memory or a photograph. Maybe it's a person who is also floating. For a while, all you can do is float. Stay alive. In the beginning, the waves are 100 feet tall and crash over you without mercy. They come 10 seconds apart and don't even give you time to catch your breath. All you can do is hang on and float. After a while, maybe weeks, maybe months, you'll find the waves are still 100 feet tall, but they come further apart. When they come, they still crash all over you and wipe you out. But in between, you can breathe, you can function. You never know what's going to trigger the grief. It might be a song, a picture, a street intersection, the smell of a cup of coffee. It can be just about anything...and the wave comes crashing. But in between waves, there is life. Somewhere down the line, and it's different for everybody, you find that the waves are only 80 feet tall. Or 50 feet tall. And while they still come, they come further apart. You can see them coming. An anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas, or landing at O'Hare. You can see it coming, for the most part, and prepare yourself. And when it washes over you, you know that somehow you will, again, come out the other side. Soaking wet, sputtering, still hanging on to some tiny piece of the wreckage, but you'll come out. Take it from an old guy. The waves never stop coming, and somehow you don't really want them to. But you learn that you'll survive them. And other waves will come. And you'll survive them too. If you're lucky, you'll have lots of scars from lots of loves. And lots of shipwrecks." www.good.is/articles/best-comment-everI'm posting it in memory of your August grandchild, and my son, of course.
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Post by silver on Sept 14, 2017 13:38:14 GMT -5
And speaking of death, every now and then, I think about the Littleton, Colorado school shooting and recall seeing on the telly parts of the funeral of one of the students shot and killed. When it was time, the father gently shut the casket lid - it was like the acknowledgement that his son was now gone. I'd never seen that done before, and was very moved - it's gotta be the hardest thing to do, and I know - to acknowledge a loved one has died.
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Post by krsnaraja on Sept 18, 2017 20:23:58 GMT -5
Silv, you must be a pigeon in your past life carrying messages from spiritual masters to and fro. With more emphasis on the feet to remind who were before. You did a good job at sending those letters to destinations on time. Keep up the good work friend. 😇 I enjoy your flights of fancy, k. You see, I have this anxiety problem ever since I suffered a heart attack ten years ago ( September 11, 2007 ). I did not know I was hypertensive. I was heavy into alcohol and smoking. I was diagnose to have an acute inferior wall myocardial infarction. Ten years later, there is a scar in my heart that wont go away. If I don`t take everyday, a beta-blocker ( Neobloc 50), my heart goes into palpitation ( heart rate of more than 100 ). The beta blocker drug slows the heart rate. It prevents the heart from going into atrial fibrillation. I been asking myself, why do my heart starts beating fast when I fail to take the medication? Theory is this; mental anxieties/fear do not go away. When they don`t surface, they are found in the subconscious. Even if one thinks he is free from anxiety/fear, the question arises why does the heart continue to palpitate? Sometimes I do meditation or chant mantras to overcome it yet I find it`s only temporary. The palpitation returns. I stopped drinking coffee because I know it makes my heart beat faster. Makes your blood pressure go up. Hypertension, you see, burdens the heart. If one can not lower one`s high blood pressure, the possibility of stroke or heart attack is only a matter of time. We have to control our diet with less fat/sugar. High serum cholesterol/triglyceride makes the blood sticky. The possibility of blood forming clots in the heart and brain lead to stroke/heart attack. In short, the mental anxiety/fear (the thought of dying, financial problems, turbulent relationships) is always there. It simply wont go away. Flights of fancy gives me some sort of diversion but not for long. When heart starts palpitating, I take without hesitation a beta blocker. Cure is rapid and the treatment for life.
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Post by krsnaraja on Sept 23, 2017 20:53:18 GMT -5
My body-health update: The results of my ECG came on September 23, 2017. Fasting Blood Sugar 173 gms% Normal: 70-100 Cholesterol 222 gms% Normal: less than 200 Triglyceride 179 gms % Normal: less than 150 SGPT 60 mml/L Normal: 5-40 Creatinine 0.95 Normal: less than 1.2 ECG Sinus Rhytm with old inferior MI, Non-specific ST wave changes Interpretation: I have diabetes, elevated serum fat/lipoprotein, fatty liver, alcohol abuse, overweight ( reasons perhaps for the elevated SGPT ). My mental-health update: My mind tells me I should continue taking hypoglycemic agents, go on dieting, eat more vegetables than meat. Cut-off the beer drinking. Exercise 30 minutes a day. To take regularly my anti-hypertensive meds. Mental anxiety arise when nothing is done and the thought of dying early due to renal, heart failure and liver failure appears.
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Post by krsnaraja on Sept 23, 2017 21:02:14 GMT -5
What if you have a bad blood chem report and the thought of dying early appears in your mind. What would you do? This was what I felt yesterday knowing I have an elevated blood sugar, cholesterol/triglyceride. Elevated liver function test ( SGPT). An ECG report of an old inferior myocardial infarction. I die anytime of a heart attack, liver and kidney disease. If these are not corrected. It gave me this mental anxiety. The thought of leaving my love ones early is frightening. Consciousness/soul is not afraid. Am I?
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Post by silver on Sept 24, 2017 2:50:35 GMT -5
I have much the same medical issues as you. What I do is only my own personal best.
We can have all sorts of theories about why the anxiety, why do we have to take high bp meds, and we can try to meditate our anxiety away, but it won't change NOW. Some day we all die of something. So, most of the time, I find it pretty easy to say to myself, "why worry? It could trigger worse anxiety which could lead to an earlier death. I love coffee too much to give it up totally. But I don't drink it late in the day and I wish I could.
It wouldn't harm you to cut out drinking of beer - let's say you make a decision to give it a month or even two months and then decide if it seemed to help. As an example of what can be done - you're not dead yet, so you have some time in which to experiment with stuff like that.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Sept 24, 2017 11:19:06 GMT -5
krs and silver...about six weeks ago I found I have prediabetes. My mother makes me check my sugar at least once a year, and so this is how I found out. My fasting sugar was about 125 (very bad, on the verge of diabetes). So I started working on it very hard, stopped sugar that day. Read, investigated. Stopped eating bread and crackers also. Brought fasting sugar down to about 112 quickly, but it, as krs said, must be below 100 to not be considerex prediabetic. Time factor now, so will get to best book and most important factor, leptin, The Leptin Diet by Byron J Richards. He has five rules. #1. Never eat after dinner (supper). #2. Eat three meals a day (with 5-6 hours between meals, and no snacking between meals). #3. Do not eat large meals. #4. Eat protein at breakfast. #5. Reduce the amount of carynohydrates you eat. leptin is made by fat. These rules normalize leptin. Will explain more of the why later. But leptin relates to inflamation, blood pressure and blood sugar levels (Metabolic syndrome). Gotta go....
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Post by silver on Sept 24, 2017 12:57:36 GMT -5
krs and silver...about six weeks ago I found I have prediabetes. My mother makes me check my sugar at least once a year, and so this is how I found out. My fasting sugar was about 125 (very bad, on the verge of diabetes). So I started working on it very hard, stopped sugar that day. Read, investigated. Stopped eating bread and crackers also. Brought fasting sugar down to about 112 quickly, but it, as krs said, must be below 100 to not be considerex prediabetic. Time factor now, so will get to best book and most important factor, leptin, The Leptin Diet by Byron J Richards. He has five rules. #1. Never eat after dinner (supper). #2. Eat three meals a day (with 5-6 hours between meals, and no snacking between meals). #3. Do not eat large meals. #4. Eat protein at breakfast. #5. Reduce the amount of carynohydrates you eat. leptin is made by fat. These rules normalize leptin. Will explain more of the why later. But leptin relates to inflamation, blood pressure and blood sugar levels (Metabolic syndrome). Gotta go.... Um no, 125 isn't 'very bad'. I didn't now squat about blood sugar readings etc. until AFTER I was diagnosed. The numbers are important of course, but 125 is no biggie, either way. There is no doubt in my mind that the numbers and other aspects of diabetes 'facts' will be misinterpreted and misunderstood for a very long time - it's a very slippery subject from all that I've read and experienced and experimented with. I've lost 15-20 lbs. since June 8 of this year since doing intermittent fasting. Numbers are down too. No way eating 3 meals a day for me. I may have mentioned this on this forum before, but I'm not sure. In any event, I suggest checking out "Butter Bob" videos on YT.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Sept 24, 2017 16:00:23 GMT -5
krs and silver...about six weeks ago I found I have prediabetes. My mother makes me check my sugar at least once a year, and so this is how I found out. My fasting sugar was about 125 (very bad, on the verge of diabetes). So I started working on it very hard, stopped sugar that day. Read, investigated. Stopped eating bread and crackers also. Brought fasting sugar down to about 112 quickly, but it, as krs said, must be below 100 to not be considerex prediabetic. Time factor now, so will get to best book and most important factor, leptin, The Leptin Diet by Byron J Richards. He has five rules. #1. Never eat after dinner (supper). #2. Eat three meals a day (with 5-6 hours between meals, and no snacking between meals). #3. Do not eat large meals. #4. Eat protein at breakfast. #5. Reduce the amount of carynohydrates you eat. leptin is made by fat. These rules normalize leptin. Will explain more of the why later. But leptin relates to inflamation, blood pressure and blood sugar levels (Metabolic syndrome). Gotta go.... Um no, 125 isn't 'very bad'. I didn't now squat about blood sugar readings etc. until AFTER I was diagnosed. The numbers are important of course, but 125 is no biggie, either way. There is no doubt in my mind that the numbers and other aspects of diabetes 'facts' will be misinterpreted and misunderstood for a very long time - it's a very slippery subject from all that I've read and experienced and experimented with. I've lost 15-20 lbs. since June 8 of this year since doing intermittent fasting. Numbers are down too. No way eating 3 meals a day for me. I may have mentioned this on this forum before, but I'm not sure. In any event, I suggest checking out "Butter Bob" videos on YT. Once 125, right, no biggie. But if you are consistently, after eight hours fasting (overnight) between 100 and 125, that's prediabetes. Richards says 2 meals a day is ok if that's the only way you can go 5-6 hours between meals. What's important is you need to eat enough calories so that your body does not go into starvation mode. That's very bad, as the job of leptin is to keep you at your set weight. If you eat too few calories trying to lose weight, when you increase calories, your body turns the extra calories into fat. This is the basis of yo-yo diet-gain. It's been very interesting learning about hormones and how the body deals with eating. Very good on the weight loss. ..... Richards says with the five rules you can gradually lose fat and keep lowering your set point. ....until you reach a healthy weight.
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Post by silver on Sept 24, 2017 16:27:03 GMT -5
Um no, 125 isn't 'very bad'. I didn't now squat about blood sugar readings etc. until AFTER I was diagnosed. The numbers are important of course, but 125 is no biggie, either way. There is no doubt in my mind that the numbers and other aspects of diabetes 'facts' will be misinterpreted and misunderstood for a very long time - it's a very slippery subject from all that I've read and experienced and experimented with. I've lost 15-20 lbs. since June 8 of this year since doing intermittent fasting. Numbers are down too. No way eating 3 meals a day for me. I may have mentioned this on this forum before, but I'm not sure. In any event, I suggest checking out "Butter Bob" videos on YT. Once 125, right, no biggie. But if you are consistently, after eight hours fasting (overnight) between 100 and 125, that's prediabetes. Richards says 2 meals a day is ok if that's the only way you can go 5-6 hours between meals. What's important is you need to eat enough calories so that your body does not go into starvation mode. That's very bad, as the job of leptin is to keep you at your set weight. If you eat too few calories trying to lose weight, when you increase calories, your body turns the extra calories into fat. This is the basis of yo-yo diet-gain. It's been very interesting learning about hormones and how the body deals with eating. Very good on the weight loss. ..... Richards says with the five rules you can gradually lose fat and keep lowering your set point. ....until you reach a healthy weight. You don't get intermittent fasting. You need to go see Butter Bob on yt and there will be other directly related presenters, including experts surrounding BB's vids. You need to see what it involves - intermittent fasting and/or ketosis style eating (I don't like using the worn-out word 'diet'). Knowing what I know and having experienced what I have, I can't agree with you and Richards. What our bodies do regarding food, nutrition, habits, differences in individuals, we can't really know enough. But you reach a point when you understand how it all comes together - I couldn't decide which video to recommend you watch first, both being sort of similar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sAqy1lnWXo&list=PLkQCEsFtjG1cZae6JceyslVJ7F4uInIkX&index=2or www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDzJKaBvOGw&t=1345sThere are so many of his videos that would/could help you understand better about all this stuff. I think I've watched all of his vids.
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Post by krsnaraja on Sept 24, 2017 17:24:51 GMT -5
Dear Silv & Stardust Pilgrim, diabetes is that the beta cells of the pancreas can no longer produce the right amount of insulin needed to lower the blood sugar level between 70-100. Even if we fast or go on a diet, a diabetic will have to take an oral hypoglycemic medicine to control the above normal blood sugar. These hypoglycemic agents stimulate the exhausted pancreas to produce more insulin. Without these drugs, controlling elevated blood sugar levels through exercise and dieting do help provided you can maintain this regimen for life. So, the easiest way out is to take anti-diabetic drugs or receive insulin injections. Often times, laziness to do exercise and not being determined to go on a diet means lack of discipline and focus for those diabetics who prefer the easier path, take hypoglycemic drugs or do insulin.
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