Re: Thanks Carolyn: triglicerides

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No problem with a virgin Pina Colada smoothie.  I think I might like that,

too.  I like  the old standbys of strawberries and banana.  Have liked mango

and strawberries too.  but I guess that strawberries and blueberries would be

very good from an antioxident position. 

 

I do know  about the arms being needed when have a knee problem.  So much has

been done in knee replacements or partial replacements that I am surprised you

can't do it.  I need to lose weight before I have mine replaced as the weight

is hard on knees and would mess them up again and might not get through rehab. 

My 85 year old neighbor had her right knee replaced and less than a year later

had thehip replaced (anterior type with the hana table so faster recovery on

that).  Her rehab was a bit rough but she was able to do it.  The pain in her

knee and hip are gone.  She fell about 6 weeks ago though (at night) and hit

her head and broke her neck at the back, but she was fortunate as she was not

paralyzed and is not dead.  She is wearing a neck brace and has to keep it on

for awhile.  She got an ok to take it off for a shower after 6 or 7 weeks and

she loved that.  Two neighbors both great friends (guy who is her male friend

and a woman who was

a nurse) came in to help her with the shower and to wash her hair and her back

for her as she is not tomove her neck and as soon as they helped her out and

dried her, she had to get back in neck brace. 

 

For you the MS may be causing some problems that can't handle the repair of the

knees.   I don't know that I could do Wii.  I haven't tried it.  Did your

arm break?  I was in the hospital about 6 years ago and when I got out I had a

rotator cuff problem and doctor said would take a lot of exercise to help it and

acted as though iwouldn't do them as so hard and painful.  I went a year

without being able to use that arm much at all.  Then I went to an exercise

class at the Senior center near me and they had a volunteer massage therapist

come in once a week.  They signed me up (free) and he massaged it and gave me a

couple of exercises which I did and I had use out of it, something the doctors

hadn't done in a year.   I was able to raise it over my head.  It is perhaps

not exactly the same as the other one, but no one would know the difference and

I have no pain from it.  My discs in back still hurt as does my right knee and

to a much lesser

extent the left one.  I think about that often and in 2 sessions of about 15

min. each and telling me exercises, he fixed my arm or helped me fix it.  I was

going to chair exercises.  We may stand holding a walker or a chair or sit and

do our feet similar and arms as we normally do.  We used to have some in

wheelchairs but not now.  Goes from my age maybe a bityounger up to in the 90's

and she walks better than I do.  I havne't been going and I do feel the

difference in my arms ,neck and back.  I need to go back again.  We do what we

can.  I like pool exercises as it is not a pressure on my knees. I do worry

about whether  they keep the pool as sanitary as I'd like it. 

 

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Monday, April 2, 2012 11:00 PM

Subject: Thanks Carolyn: triglicerides

 

I hear you! Actually when I do green smoothies it is almost always water but

today I did one with pineapple, coconut (and if I had coconut milk upstairs

would have added that), romaine, flax meal, green super food, ice cubes, and

almond milk.

My milk products might be in my coffee (sorry it is my only vice!) but I drink

more water

I have a few problems with moving...I have Primary Progressive MS so moving is

not something...even before the MS I had SEVERE degenerative joint disorder in

both knees... literally bone on bone.. I should have had a joint replacement

eons ago..now I am no longer eligible as my ortho told us if the surgery didn't

kill me the rehab would. How I get my exercise in is I use the Wii and I have

several programs that I modify that allows me to use a crutch or a chair to help

me. But back in Feb I decided to have a mishap/fight with a headboard and a bed

that elevates... my arm got caughter in the middle of the two... I still can't

use the elbow to do many things,, I finally broke down and made an appt with an

ortho (I hate not going to my ortho that I had always gone to BUT he is over an

1+ hour one way so I finally had to ask my Primary for a name of someone

closer.. I hated it as I've been seeing the same ortho for over 20+ years. You

might be wondering what

that has to do me with not being able to use Wii.. I need an arm to balance and

an arm to hold onto chair/crutch... I can do some things with the arm but still

have to have my husband braid my hair,etc!

Debbie in NJ

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> Debbie,  I haven't been doing green smoothies yet on a regular

basis (most of them don't recommend milk though I like it, too), so I can't

speak to that part of the issue. But I have a similar problem. My cholesterol is

good.  My good cholesterol isn't good as it is too low and has been for a

long time.  The triglicerides are up, though not as high as  yours

were.  I take fenofibrate at a higher dose and thought that might be the same

as the medication you take.  I do the prescription Lovaza which is fish oil

capsules (4 a day), and also some Niaspan at night which I think has some

effect.  The thing I am not doing which I need to do is exercise.  I even

wondered if that was why my sugar was dropping today when I was out.  I

walked quite a bit.  

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> " Some of that is genes and can't do anything about that, but if cut out more

of the red meat and doing exercise.  That is about it.  I don't think my

D3 is for that but for calcium.  I get the dairy in like you do, such as

Smart Balance milk (more omega 3 oils)  and in yogurt for the probiotics

(though the yogurt I eat doesn'thave a high effect on probiotics). 

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> Debbie, guess we have to increase moving.  Good luck to you.  I hope to

start going to the pool to walk in the water.  As soon as I think I will, it

will probably start raining.  LOL.

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> I do like icecream and was eating some but have cut that back a lot. 

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> Carolyn Wilkerson

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