Re: Re: Different manufacturers of CSM

November 12, 2005

My first Rx of CSM was Questran and it was sugar free. But the

sweetner it used was aspartame, which I can't tolerate. Now I get

mine customized by a compounding pharmacist familiar with Dr

Shoemaker. Hopkinton Drug in MA. 800-439-4441. I get it with no

additives including no sweetner. I can add mine own sweetner as

needed, even rotating it like in a food rotation diet.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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> Hey KC,

> Glad to hear everything went well with your visit to Shoemakers. I

> hope Sharon feels better soon. I just thought I'd mention this to

> those of you who are or will be taking CSM. There are several

> different manufacturers. " " <eaglestone@...>

November 12, 2005

Carl,

How does it mix up? Is there alot of grit to it. I am pretty tough, but

geez mine is so thick and gritty it is just gross. If you dont mind me

asking is the cost in the same ball park?

Thank you,

Re: [] Re: Different manufacturers of CSM

> My first Rx of CSM was Questran and it was sugar free. But the

> sweetner it used was aspartame, which I can't tolerate. Now I get

> mine customized by a compounding pharmacist familiar with Dr

> Shoemaker. Hopkinton Drug in MA. 800-439-4441. I get it with no

> additives including no sweetner. I can add mine own sweetner as

> needed, even rotating it like in a food rotation diet.

>

> Carl Grimes

> Healthy Habitats LLC

>

> -----

>> Hey KC,

>> Glad to hear everything went well with your visit to Shoemakers. I

>> hope Sharon feels better soon. I just thought I'd mention this to

>> those of you who are or will be taking CSM. There are several

>> different manufacturers. " " <eaglestone@...>

>

> FAIR USE NOTICE:

>

November 12, 2005

HOW MUCH IS THE CSM, GANG? I HAVE NOOOOOOOOO MEDICINE COVERAGE! :>(

THANKS,

VICTORIA

Re: [] Re: Different manufacturers of CSM

>

>> My first Rx of CSM was Questran and it was sugar free. But the

>> sweetner it used was aspartame, which I can't tolerate. Now I get

>> mine customized by a compounding pharmacist familiar with Dr

>> Shoemaker. Hopkinton Drug in MA. 800-439-4441. I get it with no

>> additives including no sweetner. I can add mine own sweetner as

>> needed, even rotating it like in a food rotation diet.

>>

>> Carl Grimes

>> Healthy Habitats LLC

>>

>> -----

>>> Hey KC,

>>> Glad to hear everything went well with your visit to Shoemakers. I

>>> hope Sharon feels better soon. I just thought I'd mention this to

>>> those of you who are or will be taking CSM. There are several

>>> different manufacturers. " " <eaglestone@...>

>>

>> FAIR USE NOTICE:

>>

November 12, 2005

,

It isn't instantly dissolved like sugar or Tang. Let it sit several

10 minutes or even overnight. It soaks up a lot of water and some of

it will go to the bottom as " glop " but mix with more water or juice.

The amount taken into the body is more important than how thick or

thin it is when you drink it. I make mine as thin or thick as I

prefer, using whatever sweetener and/or juice I prefer. (For specific

instructions check with you prescribing doctor - I am not one!)

Someone else asked why they aren't put into capsules - I don't know

but because it soaks up so much water and seems to expand in size it

may not be desirable for it to do that inside your body (?)

Carl

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> Carl,

> How does it mix up? Is there alot of grit to it. I am pretty tough,

> but geez mine is so thick and gritty it is just gross. If you dont

> mind me asking is the cost in the same ball park? Thank you,

> Re: [] Re:

> Different manufacturers of CSM

>

> > My first Rx of CSM was Questran and it was sugar free. But the

> > sweetner it used was aspartame, which I can't tolerate. Now I get

> > mine customized by a compounding pharmacist familiar with Dr

> > Shoemaker. Hopkinton Drug in MA. 800-439-4441. I get it with no

> > additives including no sweetner. I can add mine own sweetner as

> > needed, even rotating it like in a food rotation diet.

> >

> > Carl Grimes

> > Healthy Habitats LLC

>

November 13, 2005

I thought about the capsule idea, too, Carl. I do hate drinking that stuff! But

it seemed to me, if the body is primarily water, and the CSM is going to bind on

one end to the first water it encounters, you probably would not want that

happening inside your body. If you left it bind to water you would otherwise

drink, you can be assured it didn't randomly attach itself to any bodily fluids

along the way and turn them into CSM Glop. (Gotta pick your battles, I guess.)

FWIW, you can put CSM in a half-filled bottle of whatever liquid you prefer with

a funnel and just shake it up. (That's shaken, not stirred. ; ) If it settles,

you just shake it up again before partaking. I don't know how long this mixture

will " keep " , but I try to get a week's supply together whenever I can stand up

long enough to do it and stash it in the fridge. I let it warm to room temp

before shaking it again and drinking it, myself. But I guess that part depends

on whether you like your gritty glop cold. I do wonder what effect (if any)

drinking it cold or warm might have on the fat molecules it's about to bind

with, but have confined my experiments to making it as palatable and easy to mix

as possible.

One other issue came up with this, for me. That's the ease with which the CSM

powder gets airborn while mixing. It irritates my nose, throat, and lungs, and I

noticed I was apparently giving myself a nice case of bronchitis every time I

mixed the stuff. It was suggested to me that a simple painter's mask or the kind

you can get at the pharmacy will take care of that problem very nicely. The CSM

is a large particle (which is how it works), so it doesn't need anything fancy

to filter it out.

The fact that CSM sticks to teeth even after it's been thoroughly mixed with

water makes me think it's seeking out any fat molecules that were already stuck

to or between my teeth. So yuk - now we get dental glop, too.

I don't have problems with aspartame, but the sorbitol I use with the CSM not

only keeps it from caused some real world class constipation, it's a sugar

alcohol used as a sweetener. That seems to work really nicely for me, and since

CSM doesn't bind with acohols I get a double benefit and call it a winner.

On the bright side, I guess we could say it's downright elegant in its

simplicity...or something like that. If you overlook the glop thing <G>.

" Carl E. Grimes " <grimes@...> wrote: