tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464163302553827777.post603784573754189055..comments2023-11-02T13:52:32.145+02:00Comments on Chronicles of an NF survivor: 18mmg! That number taken in a Hebrew numerical sense means חי: LIFE. 18. yah.Sarah Kleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381531433867772947noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464163302553827777.post-58544776359169330732015-03-23T11:57:00.540+02:002015-03-23T11:57:00.540+02:00Yocheved,
Thanks for your in-depth recommendations...Yocheved,<br />Thanks for your in-depth recommendations. You have gained good sense through all your travails, thats for sure.<br /><br />About the food, I am going to go with what Ya'akov Berman tells me. That is what I decided. I can't commit to organic everything and making smoothies and taking a zillion suppliments. That won't be a working system for me. I hope Ya'akov Berman and I can work out something that can be helpful as well as doable for me. I know my limitations. It's about energy, needing to be in the kitchen a lot just with feeding kids, cleaning up all the time, and no energy left to take care of a special diet for myself. I need it to be simple. I pray that I will get what I need.<br /><br />The idea of the pain-o-meter is clever. Worth a try. I don't believe it will work, if I gotta be honest, but I'm game to try.<br /><br />I know you have been through so much pain and suffering in your medical life, I deeply respect where your advice is coming from. Thank you for taking the time!Sarah Kleinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17381531433867772947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464163302553827777.post-15339187841070492272015-03-23T11:40:06.952+02:002015-03-23T11:40:06.952+02:00Dear Sarah,
This isn’t in answer to your questio...Dear Sarah,<br /> <br />This isn’t in answer to your question, but – liquid iron supplements contain a stool softener, which eliminates that problem.<br /> <br />Glad to hear you’re going to see your GP. Hopefully you’ll get some answers.<br /> <br />All the best,<br />EdnaEdnahttps://www.facebook.com/edna.oxmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464163302553827777.post-22928368543799565532015-03-23T11:30:37.839+02:002015-03-23T11:30:37.839+02:00Woo hoo!!!!Woo hoo!!!!Miriam Greenhttps://www.facebook.com/miriam.green.7399?fref=tsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2464163302553827777.post-34502430626683022015-03-23T08:44:20.373+02:002015-03-23T08:44:20.373+02:00An excerpt from http://www.booklocker.com/books/30...An excerpt from http://www.booklocker.com/books/3067.html<br /><br />... Then I gradually put together an all-natural pain-reducing plan that worked.<br /><br />Here’s some potentially helpful information for anyone healing from a bone fracture as I did, or for anyone interested in protecting their bone health (the ideas below can minimize pain from various causes, by the way):<br /><br />• Using my Personal Pain-o-Meter (explained a few paragraphs below)<br />• Listening to soothing music<br />• Sitting in cheer-me-up sunshine (which provides Vitamin D for strong teeth and bones) with and without friends<br />• Basing part of my grocery list on advice from Dr. Neal Barnard’s Foods That Fight Pain book. I bought it after interviewing Dr. Barnard about some of his innovative health-promoting techniques several years ago (I’m still a health writer/journalist for hire, folks). <br /><br />Shop as I do and you just might feel better after buying from the organic green-grocer and health food store:<br /> <br />Almonds with Raisins (really!)<br />Beans (soak them for a day, changing water 2-3 times so you won’t develop belly bloat)<br />Broccoli<br />Capsaicin Cream (a natural remedy made of chili pepper extracts!)<br />Fresh and powdered Ginger Root<br />Fresh Figs and/or Fig Jelly<br />Sweet Potatoes<br />Vitamin B6 (50-150 mg)<br />Vitamin E 400 IU<br />Zinc <br /><br />I ate the foods in abundance and took the vitamins once daily.<br /><br />These old standbys also helped me:<br /><br />• Arnica Montana (a natural remedy that resembles tiny white pills. Arnica also comes in liquid form)<br />• Cuprum Metallicum (a natural remedy that also resembles tiny white pills)<br />• Rescue Remedy Cream<br />• Rescue Bach Remedy Drops<br />• Any bar of soap at all. I have no idea why this folk remedy works, but after I place a bar of soap under a sweatshirt sleeve, under sheets, or upon some other area of sore muscles, the pain reduces noticeably.<br />Yocheved Golanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17030509114779062693noreply@blogger.com