T2 honeymoon could be at an end

Grazer said:

Defren said "Thanks Sheepy, I really do feel like death warmed up, but I'll be bu**ered if it gets the best of me. I have too much to do over the next few weeks, I don't have time to be sick, so it can bliddy s*d off. "

Bliddy? Don't you wish they didn't put "I" next to "O" on the keyboard? Posses me iff!

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:lol: :lol: :lol: I needed that laugh Malc thank you.

Thank you everyone, what a caring bunch you all are. Feeling slightly better today, but have decided not to take Alka Seltzer today as I really felt awful yesterday. I am going to get some apple cider vinegar and try that. I am also going to look at making sure the food I eat is more alkaline than acid and see where that gets me. Rather than my usual lunch of Greek yogurt, berries, flax and chia, I had a mushroom omelette. Shoulder is still quite painful, not as bad as yesterday, and surprisingly the pain in my knees has really eased today. It could well have been the AS but the foggy head, tiredness and general yukky feeling makes it not worth going through. I do use bicarb in some recipe's and have never had this reaction, I think bicarb with water could be better than AS.

MaryJ said:

Hi Jo

Just a thought - as I've just been reading your thread re diet.

Could the fasting days be doing anything?

Hope youre feeling better soon

Mary x

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Hi Mary, thank you, I will be fine, if I am anything I'm a fighter.

I doubt the fasting will have been an issue, I did the Newcastle diet with no adverse effects, and with the fasting, I do have one meal on fasting days and I always made sure if was a very healthy meal, either fish or meat with a good selection of at least five veg or salad items, and even cream if I had veg (I adore creamed leeks).

I have decided or rather been emotionally blackmailed into not fasting this week. To be honest, with not feeling 100% I think it is perhaps wise not to push my luck. All in all I feel a good bit better today than I did yesterday, although as the day is wearing on the pain in my shoulder is getting a little worse. I have looked on line at possible other causes, and none really seem to fit. I think if I don't feel any better by the middle of the week, I will go and see my GP. He is a lovely man, and he is best placed to give me advice, Google is a rather poor imitation. :lol:

Thank you Louise, **** and Steve. Well, it seems I got a bit ahead of myself. At my surgery, if you call at a certain time you can have a telephone consultation with a GP, so I did that this morning. My GP seems to think I have a trapped nerve, so not related to arthritis at all. Because my knees were playing up from the beginning of last week, but have eased now, and I feel so yukky, he thinks it could be a double whammy of a bug of some sort and a trapped nerve in my shoulder. The painkillers I am prescribed are what he would have given me, and I declined a visit to the surgery, as I tend to agree with what he is saying. I remember having a trapped nerve once before, and while it was hell at the time, it righted its self. As my GP said, I could go and have nerve tests, but by the time I got an appointment, it may have eased. He did warn me sometimes they don't sort them selves out, and if I feel I need more help, make an appointment and we can discuss things better then. I am fine with that.

The general feeling of being under the weather hasn't eased much. My appetite has been hit again. It's ironic really, this time last year chances are I would have eaten everything in sight if I wasn't too well, now, I go the opposite way, and find it a struggle to eat. Still, I doubt it will do me any harm for a few days, I do still have some 'padding'. :lol:

Thanks again for all the kind words, I really do appreciate them all. Joanna.

Thank you Grace :lol:

Unfortunately I still feel ick. However, I have decided after two days (one and a half really) I have had enough of 'taking it easy' so whatever is wrong is going to have to bu**er off. The pain in my shoulder has navigated down my arm, and really quite nasty. I am taking my heavy prescription painkillers, and do get some respite, so it's not all bed, it's just not all good either!

I'm bringing this post back up for two reasons. Firstly, the honeymoon is officially back on, I think I had a wee virus that took a bit of fighting. That war is now won, and I am back to myself again.

Secondly - Apple cider vinegar. I have read up about this, after buying a bottle from Sainsbury's, which is not the right stuff at all. Therapeutic ACV should be cloudy, not clear as in the bottle I have. The cloudiness is because the bottle has the 'mother' in it. When I read that ACV should have a mother in it, I thought the authors were all quite mad, but they're not. It's all quite complicated, so this is my (hopefully) easier way.

When we think of mothers, we think of givers of life, and that applies in ACV too. The mother is actually the bits in the bottle that are all still alive, not pasteurized or any other form of ised. In effect the bottle is packed with all the enzymes from the raw materials, ie apples. It is the live 'bits' that give ACV it's potency.

The brand that is recommended time and time again is Braggs, it is organic ACV with the mother. I have ordered a bottle on line, and am waiting for it to be delivered. In the meantime, I was taking 2 tablespoons of the ACV I have, in a large glass of sparkling water with a good slug of lime juice. I could smell the vinegar, but not taste it. I am lead to believe that Braggs is much stronger, and isn't easy to get down, unless you persevere a bit and get used to it. It should not be kept in the fridge, but at room temperature but out of direct sunlight, and has a shelf life of around 5 years. My ACV certainly had some unexpected side effects. It acted on me like a diuretic. I would down the glassful then never be out the bathroom. I doubt it is going to have the beneficial effects mentioned in previous posts as it is pasteurized, and filtered.

I will report how I get on once I receive the Braggs.