My Journey

[skwoodwiva]

Has anyone here had issue with teeth by taking powder in water?

There are many here, do not risk it.

[pamojja]

Has anyone here had issue with teeth by taking powder in water?

I'm a special case, and do not know if my experience is applicable to anyone else. At birth suffered pneumonia and was treaded with tetracycline injections. Nowadays they don't do that to new-born upto 2 years anymore, because it causes faulty teeth-development and decay. So it did with me. At my first dentist appointment preschool 7 teeth were pulled (an other thing they don't do anymore). In youth the decay accelerated and was repaired repeatedly again (a mouthful of amalgam..). However, as young adult those teeth repaired just continued to crumble and I gave up on repair. Around 28 years of age I let everything remove what was left - in most cases just black holes. Thereby all amalgams gone again, luckily

The 12 teeth left didn't change since then at all, also not since taking daily 23 g ascorbic acid powder in water since 9 years now.

[skwoodwiva]

Thanks pamojja for the testimony!

Update, I started celery seed & olive leaf. In 2 days, heart rate is 57 to 60 & BP is below 101/66, resting. That is from about 68 to 70, & 115 / 75 previously.

[ChuckArbogast]

Thanks pamojja for the testimony!

Update, I started celery seed & olive leaf. In 2 days, heart rate is 57 to 60 & BP is below 101/66, resting. That is from about 68 to 70, & 115 / 75 previously.

Do you mind sharing what celery seed & olive leaf product you started taking to get those results?

Thanks,
Chuck

[skwoodwiva]

Thanks pamojja for the testimony!

Update, I started celery seed & olive leaf. In 2 days, heart rate is 57 to 60 & BP is below 101/66, resting. That is from about 68 to 70, & 115 / 75 previously.

Do you mind sharing what celery seed & olive leaf product you started taking to get those results?

Thanks,
Chuck

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/192177941343
About 3 g /d initial dose for loading
Split in 2.

I heard .5 x 3 is plenty

The olive is just Natures Way recommended dose

[ChuckArbogast]

Thanks pamojja for the testimony!

Update, I started celery seed & olive leaf. In 2 days, heart rate is 57 to 60 & BP is below 101/66, resting. That is from about 68 to 70, & 115 / 75 previously.

Do you mind sharing what celery seed & olive leaf product you started taking to get those results?

Thanks,
Chuck

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/192177941343
About 3 g /d initial dose for loading
Split in 2.

I heard .5 x 3 is plenty

The olive is just Natures Way recommended dose

Thank you for the information.

[skwoodwiva]

Just in case some missed it, my BT is subject to the availability of lysine. The more regular and often the lysine, the greater is my bowel tolerance. By my subjective observations, anyway.

BTW I tore my proximal bicep tendon and have cuff damage.
Getting MRI on monday, anticipate surgery ASAP.
It is from bitting off more than I should have working HVAC.

[skwoodwiva]

[francisunderwood]

Just in case some missed it, my BT is subject to the availability of lysine. The more regular and often the lysine, the greater is my bowel tolerance. By my subjective observations, anyway.

BTW I tore my proximal bicep tendon and have cuff damage.
Getting MRI on monday, anticipate surgery ASAP.
It is from bitting off more than I should have working HVAC.

Good luck, hope its not as bad as you think.

[skwoodwiva]

Just in case some missed it, my BT is subject to the availability of lysine. The more regular and often the lysine, the greater is my bowel tolerance. By my subjective observations, anyway.

BTW I tore my proximal bicep tendon and have cuff damage.
Getting MRI on monday, anticipate surgery ASAP.
It is from bitting off more than I should have working HVAC.

Good luck, hope its not as bad as you think.

Thank you for asking about it.
It is worse. The long head, not the proximal, appears to be severed & retracted the MRI report says. Yet my referral ortho says surgery is not a direction he wants to go in.
So a second opinion is needed or living with a weaker right, my handed, arm. I would have the proximal tendon only. KP is not the best of care nor are fair second opinions easy to come by.

[skwoodwiva]

I am experiencing the benefits of capsaicin!
5 to 8 Jalapenos a day. As well as much cayenne as I can sprinkle. This really increases my now diminishing bladder holding abilities.
I have been on a really hot diet for only a week.
I find also if I tolerate the heat in my mouth I do not experience the burning in my BMs. While if I "hide" the heat from my mouth (pills) my body adapts poorly & I do get burning below...


What I thought was swelling from CHF in my left ankle only. Turns out to be venous insufficiency due the saphenous vein being used in my CABG. About which, a Futuro open toe/heel 20-30 stocking does wonders. The right has no swelling.

[skwoodwiva]

I am finally able to rid myself of the crospovidone induced sores using a heating pad during sleep. Maybe the DMSO has helped too.

[skwoodwiva]

Warning
Not all Hawthorn berry is good.
I try a source after my first attack in '14 and it was great. Felt like Lasix & more. Some say it relieves angina but I never have angina, weird, I know. I just pass out. CHF is my symptom. I have a fridge full of nitro tabs! No VC at all, back then, BTW. Supplier changed product. Tried others and could not find a good one, Chinese too.
I went to a big Chinese pharmacy/ Costco like place yesterday. Found this https://mega.nz/#!MVxwyIhT!p5ujaeFF9VYr ... eB10-9isTA

Amazing! A heaping tbls of the chunks in a 20 min boil is plenty. 14 oz, no seeds, $4.

The Chinese ones that did nothing had the common ventilation holes in the poly bag while the new one is hermetic!

[skwoodwiva]

I am told by my KP cardiologist that I do not need a 3rd LPa (1st, @29 mg/dl-1/17, to 2nd, @13-5/17). Yet he approves a non calculated panel!
I now am unemployed and am disabled with a ruptured long head tendon. Yet corticosteroid injection along with intense PT has lead me to hope for employment soon...

So I researched for some supporting studies and sent him this

.....
I have changed my diet and natural supplementation drastically.
I have dropped to 13. Yet lpa can be assessed as a risk factor @ 24.
See this
"The risk of CHD was flat until ~24 mg/dL, then rose continuously with increasing Lp(a), up to risk ratio of ~1.5 at 192 mg/dL (Figure 1A). These data clearly demonstrate that in subjects without prior CHD that Lp(a) is an independent predictor of CHD, even at modest levels of Lp(a) of >24 mg/dL, which is the approximately the 70th percentile population risk that encompasses approximately 2 billion people globally [2, 3]."
And
"Several agents have been reported to reduce Lp(a) concentrations, including niacin in high doses (74), l-carnitine at a dose of 2 g/day (75), and ascorbic acid (3 g/day) together with l-lysine "
From
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl ... po=12.5000

I cannot afford to keep up the same level of supplementation & diet as I was, being presently disabled AND unemployed, I need to know this stat!

[skwoodwiva]

He granted my request. Yet said Lpa means little and he could increase my statin & give me a stronger one. I stopped my statin months ago.
My understanding is, at best statins do little for LPa.
BTW that study supports PT!
I do the listed items a 8g (1 niaspan+7 IR), 2g and 16 to 24 g a day