Re: New to the group..... gone bananas

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I am always interested in hearing something someone has tried other

than meds and had good results. I wish I could be so lucky, only thing I have

was accupuncture but insurance won't pay for as often as I need to go. The

banana thing, I eat 1 a day and have been for over 2yrs now with my oatmeal to

try and keep my cholesterol down as did not like the lipitor. Sometimes I have

had 2 bananas as I pick 1 up as a snack, but unfortunatley I have not been able

to give up any of my fibro meds., and symptoms have increased so much in last yr

that I can no longer work. But wanted to say welcome and hope this banana

additive continues to work for you that is great if all you've needed all this

time was some extra pottasium. Let us know. We all are different, but could

be someone else out there it may work for also thanks for passing on.

Sharon

mkroske6149 wrote: I was recently diagnosed

with Fibromyalgia and well it really sucks. I

also have RA and I been doing a lot of reading on both subjects and I

have come up with a bit of theory that may help some of you all. I

noticed that there is a link (well with me there is) with a potassium

deficiency.

So I have set out to see what would happen and so far, it has been 4

days since i started this little routine in the morning to just eat a

banana a day and so far it has had a great relief to the pain that I

have had for the last couple months.

The first day I noticed a slight improvement and I was able to sleep

better and not to mention that I did not feel so lethargic.

Day 2: I noticed a bigger difference, almost a calmer feeling through

out my body and even more less of a pain. I was More awake and alert

at the job with little to no hard times on concentrating on tasks.

Also i took less pain relievers then I have been normally. I have been

on pain pills for about 4 weeks and every 4 to 6 hours I had to pop

more just as if I was popping m & m's.

Day 3: Woke up as if I could take on the world....little to no pain

and I only had to take pain relievers twice this day...mood has over

all improved and this has been one of the best days since I started

this little experiment on myself. I did notice that by the end of the

day the aches and minor pains were moderate, but nothing I couldn't

handle with a couple Tylenol's.

Day 4: So far so good.... I small aches and pains, but over all still

a good day. Now I know that this might not be for everyone but I did

want to share all of this information with you and maybe it might help

you.

I think I am going to see I will fair for the rest of the week on the

this simple plan....then next week i will stop the plan and see what

happens. So far I have dis proven the theory an apple a day and

replaced it with a banana a day.