Re: Food sucks and baker's cysts. I don't know about hamster ovaries.

[Guest guest]

> Hi everyone,

>Jenni, you may have problems but lack of humour is not one of them,

I so enjoyed your message................lol And I know it came

from a place of frustration but it was very well written.

Dorey

> I haven't been able to follow much this week... I'm having some

kind of godawful stomach reaction to SOMETHING and I've been

vomiting for days. Of course since I am so used to my laundry list

of medical abnormalities I assumed it was either a medication-based

thing or a liver thing or an ulcer thing or some other panicky

health thing... well after days of tests and finally being in the ER

for eight hours overnight so I could be rehydrated through an IV, my

whole posse of MDs and experts have come to the conclusion that: it

was probably something I ate. Oh, just shoot me now. It turned out

that I threw up some essential medications a few times in a row,

ended up taking too much of one and not enough of another because I

couldn't really gauge how much I'd absorbed before vomiting, etc.

And I was dehydrated as all hell and not eating solid food for four

days, which combined with the medication screwups landed me in the

hospital. All because I apparently ate a bad shrimp. I repeat:

shoot me now. And be really careful eating shrimp. All seafood,

really. And chicken. And while we're at it, I guess you shouldn't

eat any sugar, or white flour, or carbs, or salt, or anything that's

at all processed, and of course no red meat, so along with the

chicken thing and the fact that you probably should be careful with

pork because of tape worms, you basically shouldn't eat meat at

all. Or seafood. Or nightshade vegetables, of course, and fruits

have natural sugars in them so those are out. Don't eat potatoes or

corn because of the starch\carbs thing. And if you eat anything

that tastes good, you are GOING TO HELL. This has been a public

service announcement from someone with tongue firmly planted in

cheek. I'm a little pissed off with food in general right now. I

want a cheeseburger or something, but a carefully controlled study

recently released by the National Foundation to Promote Bean Curd

assures me I'll live ten years longer if I never drive on the same

side of the road as a cheeseburger joint again. Or maybe it just

SEEMS ten years longer.

>

> The one thing I noticed while skimming this week's email: Donna,

yes, I've had two baker's cysts in my (comparably short) lifetime.

Both times I was rushed to the ER and admitted to the hospital

because of the possibility it might be DVT, which of course it

wasn't, because ultrasounds of my calves revealed ruptured baker's

cysts, but those MDs have to make money somehow, so I needed to

be " observed " for several days until it became apparent that the

ultrasound machine was in fact not deliberately lying.

>

> Jenni

[Guest guest]

ooo!!!! Jenni!!!!!!Love it..you go girl..you so hit the

proverbial nail on the head. The heck with it all Eat Drink water

alot but not too much well in Az it gets up to 120 so you have to

drink NOW THAT said Enough About the Water already.....

This is RA Group not H2O r us

What was originally brought up as a very good point has been taken

through hell. Enough.......This as been Skye In You EYE

-- In Rheumatoid Arthritis , Jenni <chaospearl@o...>

wrote:

> Hi everyone,

>

> I haven't been able to follow much this week... I'm having some

kind of godawful stomach reaction to SOMETHING and I've been

vomiting for days. Of course since I am so used to my laundry list

of medical abnormalities I assumed it was either a medication-based

thing or a liver thing or an ulcer thing or some other panicky

health thing... well after days of tests and finally being in the ER

for eight hours overnight so I could be rehydrated through an IV, my

whole posse of MDs and experts have come to the conclusion that: it

was probably something I ate. Oh, just shoot me now. It turned out

that I threw up some essential medications a few times in a row,

ended up taking too much of one and not enough of another because I

couldn't really gauge how much I'd absorbed before vomiting, etc.

And I was dehydrated as all hell and not eating solid food for four

days, which combined with the medication screwups landed me in the

hospital. All because I apparently ate a bad shrimp. I repeat:

shoot me now. And be really careful eating shrimp. All seafood,

really. And chicken. And while we're at it, I guess you shouldn't

eat any sugar, or white flour, or carbs, or salt, or anything that's

at all processed, and of course no red meat, so along with the

chicken thing and the fact that you probably should be careful with

pork because of tape worms, you basically shouldn't eat meat at

all. Or seafood. Or nightshade vegetables, of course, and fruits

have natural sugars in them so those are out. Don't eat potatoes or

corn because of the starch\carbs thing. And if you eat anything

that tastes good, you are GOING TO HELL. This has been a public

service announcement from someone with tongue firmly planted in

cheek. I'm a little pissed off with food in general right now. I

want a cheeseburger or something, but a carefully controlled study

recently released by the National Foundation to Promote Bean Curd

assures me I'll live ten years longer if I never drive on the same

side of the road as a cheeseburger joint again. Or maybe it just

SEEMS ten years longer.

>

> The one thing I noticed while skimming this week's email: Donna,

yes, I've had two baker's cysts in my (comparably short) lifetime.

Both times I was rushed to the ER and admitted to the hospital

because of the possibility it might be DVT, which of course it

wasn't, because ultrasounds of my calves revealed ruptured baker's

cysts, but those MDs have to make money somehow, so I needed to

be " observed " for several days until it became apparent that the

ultrasound machine was in fact not deliberately lying.

>

> Jenni

[Guest guest]

----- Original Message -----

From: gonzo_skye

> Enough About the Water already.....This is RA Group not H2O r usWhat was originally brought up as a very good point has been taken through hell. Enough.......This as been Skye In You EYEThe point, Skye, was that you need to be hydrated well before you have blood drawn. It makes hitting the vein much easier.

Now, that being said, exactly who here has the right to choose the topic or how long or how far we go with it? Is there a full moon or something? Everybody seems to be on their high horse today.

Nina

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the info Nina. I'm not a heavy water drinker and only drink about 2 12fl oz bottles a day at the most. I TRY to drink more when I'm on the treadmill sweating it out or walking the theme parks in the heat...I'm no athelete by any means, but I think it's important when we live in hot climates like FL and all where you sweat just walking to the mailbox. Sad to say I drink fountain Diet Pepsi with LOTS of ice. Old habits are hard to break lol

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-----Original Message-----From: Rheumatoid Arthritis [mailto:Rheumatoid Arthritis ]On Behalf Of Nina Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:32 PMRheumatoid Arthritis Subject: Re: Re: Food sucks and baker's cysts. I don't know about hamster ovaries.

The point, Skye, was that you need to be hydrated well before you have blood drawn. It makes hitting the vein much easier.

Now, that being said, exactly who here has the right to choose the topic or how long or how far we go with it? Is there a full moon or something? Everybody seems to be on their high horse today.

Nina