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7076. thoughtful - 5/10/2007 2:50:52 PM Arky, please be sure to get your numbers and the reference ranges on your blood work. Don't settle for "normal".
Reference ranges will vary by lab, but for instance, my latest were:
TSH 1.79 (0.4-5.5)
FT4 1.0 (0.8-1.8)
T3 120 (60-181)
I can see exactly where I am and what's normal for me. Not everyone is the same and the levels that are best for you are very individual. Knowing this will help you judge how your body is reacting to the supplements and help you adjust them to get you feeling your optimum.
Also, note that this lab is out of date on the TSH. Many labs have shifted the upper range lower as it is more in line with the general population. They are finding people with TSH over 4 are actually hypothyroid and often have symptoms related to it. Others go by the lab ranges but refer to the upper range as "subclinical hypothyroidism". Docs argue whether it should be treated or not. My take is go by how the patient feels. 7077. judithathome - 5/10/2007 4:04:06 PM I always drink a lot of water and possibly that was water weight...I weighed the same this morning so I'm almost sure it was. And since I don't add salt to anything except the oatmeal, it was probably just the change from that...although a few grains of salt is hardly overdoing it. I see people put so much salt on their food it looks like it's snowed on their plate.
Anyhow, yesterday for lunch I had grilled trout, a medly of broccoli, yellow squash, and baby zucchini and a side of steamed green beans, very skinny ones that were delicious. (I ordered them in place of rice pilaf.) I dont think a diet like that is going to kill me. ;-) 7078. judithathome - 5/10/2007 4:10:55 PM Clyde, that link to the diet study showed an error. I couldn't read the article.
I'm not surprised Jenny Craig scored so highly, though...NutriSystem probably did, too. Those "diets" are all done for you. If you can afford the food, it's a painless way to lose. I, for one, can't justify paying $300+ a month for pre-made food just for me. I have to eat in such a way that Keoni can, too. He doesn't need to diet so I make things that are healthy and that he can jazz up with a sauce or pasta and I just leave those off for me.
Tonight we're having grilled salmon...he'll have his with rice and a salad and mine will be sans rice. 7079. thoughtful - 5/10/2007 4:33:34 PM J@h, your plan sounds sensible.
I don't like the nutrisys and jenny craig stuff for 2 key reasons: 1) you can't control the junk they add to the food...who the heck knows what's in there; 2) you don't learn how to feed yourself. So as soon as you quit their food, you go back to eating the old stuff and the weight returns.
7080. clydefo - 5/10/2007 7:31:20 PM Sorry for the bad link. It is a subscription site but I thought the intro page could be accessed. Maybe this will work.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/health-fitness/diets-6-07/overview/0607_diets_ov.htm
7081. arkymalarky - 5/10/2007 10:19:15 PM I got the basics of it on MSNBC the other day, and meant to link it, but I guess I forgot. 7082. clydefo - 5/11/2007 7:47:16 PM MSNBC is running a story about the negative effects caused by movies that contain scenes depicting smoking. They may be required to carry an "R" rating in the future. Meanwhile, as Barbie is prattling on, we're seeing an ongoing video montage of movie smoking scenes. Bogart and all our other heroes puffing away. Probably more smoking than the kids would see in ten films. Let's hope the little darlings are in school and not watching TV. 7083. judithathome - 5/13/2007 6:08:25 PM Well, let's also hope that the people claiming this are not morons...because after all, the VIOLENCE in movies and video games these kids are exposed to is not supposed to influence them one whit...even though you see 5 year olds doing karate chops and using play swords to try and decapitate everything in sight after "being exposed" to movies. But heaven forfend a man light up a cigarette on screen because then, we'll have little nicotine addicts running around.
You can't have it both ways...either everything in movies influences kids or nothing does. You can't say they will start smoking but WON'T use violence for conflict resolution after viewing it all for hours and hours on screen. 7084. thoughtful - 5/14/2007 7:27:40 PM a buddy at work was telling me he and his wife were very careful not to give toy guns to their small son. they realized it wasn't working when one day they saw him grab his sister's barbie doll, bend her legs forward to hold her like a gun and started running around the house "shooting" things with her... 7085. judithathome - 5/14/2007 7:33:40 PM I adore the little five year old next door; he runs around in a Spiderman costume and he does karate chops and leaps all the time. The other day, he came over right before his little league game and asked me if I would protect his house while he was gone. I asked him "Protect it from what?" and said "Bad guys!" I asked him what I was supposed to do them if they showed up and he said "Tie them up and I'll karate them when I get home from the game!" He carries a jewelled sword around with him and for two weeks straight, he wore a black cape everywhere he went.
He is definitely influenced by movies and TV. 7086. clydefo - 5/14/2007 9:26:00 PM If we stop little boys from playing with guns and other pretended violent games, where will we get the conditioned pool of teenagers to use as cannon fodder when we need them? 7087. robertjayb - 5/14/2007 10:56:27 PM Canadian Ian Welsh offers simple, but hard, solutions to U.S. problems: Hard and complicated aren't synonyms...(firedoglake)
...it's not complicated to fix US healthcare – just go to single payor, probably modeled after France or Germany (who do as well or better on practically every metric), and voila – no more uninsured, much fewer bankruptcies, improved competitiveness and 650 billion dollars in profit and administrative costs that could actually be used for productive enterprise. Hard, because a lot of people make a lot of money from the status quo. But not complicated.
7088. wonkers2 - 5/14/2007 11:58:04 PM He's right. And we already have a quite good single payer universal (for 65 and older)single payer plan that works very well for the most part. (Except for the prescription drug portion.)This plan could be extended incrementally in steps to other groups such as all children, all pregnant women, all unemployed, and so forth until everbody was covered. 7089. arkymalarky - 5/15/2007 3:31:43 AM And he's right that it would save money over the current system. Exchange students are always appalled at our health care system here, especially in light of the fact that we have such excellent resources. 7090. arkymalarky - 5/15/2007 10:39:14 PM Well, got my results back and she doubled my dosage of thyroid medicine. 7091. judithathome - 5/16/2007 7:57:05 PM So today I got my eyes examined and though my prescription changed very little, I mentioned to the doctor that I have a weird little light flashing "parenthesis" on the left side of my right eye. Not constant but enough to scare me when it happens.
So he said I might have a slight separation or tearing of my retina...he referred me to a retinolgist...anyone ever had any dealings with one of those? 7092. judithathome - 5/16/2007 7:57:47 PM On the diet front, I've lost 5 pounds thus far. 7093. wonkers2 - 5/16/2007 10:19:43 PM Judith, here's a poem about retinal tears. I suspect the author could tell you about his experience. Eyeballs 7094. judithathome - 5/16/2007 10:40:41 PM Arrrgh. 7095. robertjayb - 5/16/2007 10:45:05 PM I am intrigued by this article in the Houston Chronicle sports section. Had I read it in the health or lifestyle pages I would have dismissed it as hype. It seems authentic. As a geezer with gait, balance, and back pain problems, I am wondering if Dr. Patterson accepts civilian patients as well as athletes. Wizard therapist and "Synergy Release"
Anyone heard of such healers?
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