Guest guest Posted June 30, 2001 Report Share Posted June 30, 2001 Hi Caro > I noticed that when I was on the pill, the PMS was much better. Was that the mini-pill and what is the difference between it and others?? > The curious thing is that the exclusion diet was written by the same people > who have written books on PMS diets - Dr & on . What was the name of the book that the exclusion diet came from? TIA Jenni Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 1, 2001 Report Share Posted July 1, 2001 Hi Jenni (by the way, please look out for my reply to Francesca's dog Basil post as it has a request for you in it (Welsh request!) Not sure if is called Minipill but I would think so - Femulen - an oestrogen free oral contraceptive containing Ethynodiol diacetate - " prevents pregnancy by thickening the mucus in the neck of the womb so that it forms a barrier to the passage of sperm; In addition the lining of the womb is altered so that it is unfavourable tfor the growth of any egg that might nevertheless be fertilized " (blurb from the packet) Book is No More IBS! published by Vermilion ISBN0-09-181593-2 was £8.99 by on and Dr Alan - I can send you the weekly menu sheets as I wrote them out to post on kitchen wall to try to help - think I may have shopping lists still typed out somewhere if that would also help otherwise you are always thumbing through the book in Tescos - difficult if also tryiing to catch the dear disappearing children! But you will need to buy the book to get the recipes. It IS quite a lot of work all the cooking; you can do quite a lot in advance if you don't want to start right away - I did find sometimes I would do shortcuts ie if they had asked for a salad I might eat the carrot, celery and apple without cutting them all up first!! And if didn't have time ate the ingredients for a recipe without necessarily assembling them together in their suggested recipe. A couple of items I had to brace myself to eat but it was OK, I quite surprised myself.. I didn't *quite* manage not to eat chocolate.... Their PMS books are Beat PMT Through Diet is published by the Ebury Press (didn't leap off the bookshelf into my waiting hands so can't give you ISBN number) and Beat PMT Cookbook is by on with Tooley ISBN 0-85223-926-2 but ISBN might have changed as this was 1990 edition. They do have a service at the Women's Nutritional Advisory Service - PO Box 268, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1RW and phone 01273-771366 - I think can give consultations over the phone as well as there...If you can't get hold of the Beat PMT Through Diet I could lend it to you for a couple of months if that would help... Rather too whizzy titles to be taken seriously perhaps, but the IBS book has done me a huge favour in demonstrating my wheat problems and leading to coeliac diagnosis has potentially saved me months or years of non diagnosis of what is quite a serious condition if left undetected. Caro PS Are you assembling camping equipment yet? I've just heard of a brilliant thing for boiling water quite fast called a Kettle which I vaguely remember seeing in the Hawkins Bazaar catalogue some time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 1, 2001 Report Share Posted July 1, 2001 Hi Jenni (by the way, please look out for my reply to Francesca's dog Basil post as it has a request for you in it (Welsh request!) Not sure if is called Minipill but I would think so - Femulen - an oestrogen free oral contraceptive containing Ethynodiol diacetate - " prevents pregnancy by thickening the mucus in the neck of the womb so that it forms a barrier to the passage of sperm; In addition the lining of the womb is altered so that it is unfavourable tfor the growth of any egg that might nevertheless be fertilized " (blurb from the packet) Book is No More IBS! published by Vermilion ISBN0-09-181593-2 was £8.99 by on and Dr Alan - I can send you the weekly menu sheets as I wrote them out to post on kitchen wall to try to help - think I may have shopping lists still typed out somewhere if that would also help otherwise you are always thumbing through the book in Tescos - difficult if also tryiing to catch the dear disappearing children! But you will need to buy the book to get the recipes. It IS quite a lot of work all the cooking; you can do quite a lot in advance if you don't want to start right away - I did find sometimes I would do shortcuts ie if they had asked for a salad I might eat the carrot, celery and apple without cutting them all up first!! And if didn't have time ate the ingredients for a recipe without necessarily assembling them together in their suggested recipe. A couple of items I had to brace myself to eat but it was OK, I quite surprised myself.. I didn't *quite* manage not to eat chocolate.... Their PMS books are Beat PMT Through Diet is published by the Ebury Press (didn't leap off the bookshelf into my waiting hands so can't give you ISBN number) and Beat PMT Cookbook is by on with Tooley ISBN 0-85223-926-2 but ISBN might have changed as this was 1990 edition. They do have a service at the Women's Nutritional Advisory Service - PO Box 268, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 1RW and phone 01273-771366 - I think can give consultations over the phone as well as there...If you can't get hold of the Beat PMT Through Diet I could lend it to you for a couple of months if that would help... Rather too whizzy titles to be taken seriously perhaps, but the IBS book has done me a huge favour in demonstrating my wheat problems and leading to coeliac diagnosis has potentially saved me months or years of non diagnosis of what is quite a serious condition if left undetected. Caro PS Are you assembling camping equipment yet? I've just heard of a brilliant thing for boiling water quite fast called a Kettle which I vaguely remember seeing in the Hawkins Bazaar catalogue some time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 3, 2001 Report Share Posted July 3, 2001 > Could you just tell me what were the symptoms of your coliacs? it's just > that I've wondered about this with Mari but everything I've read says that > she wouldn't be thriving if she had it? She's growing and developing well. Jenni - Coeliac symptoms I had but it may be different for children (also look at the website of coeliac society www.coeliac.co.uk ; General info and under publications they have some free leaflets you can down load. episodic unexplained weight lost / diahorrhea / digestive upheavals / pallor / exhaustion / poss link to depression / occasional giddyness (some would say permanent giddyness) / nausea / loss of appetite / with me these alternated between themselves, not constant / anaemia / exhaustion plus insomnia (really nice little combo, that) / history of digestive disorders including lactose intolerance and IBS Many coeliacs are symptomless though - it also runs in families as well - someone on this list had a child diagnosed from no symptoms - someone else was diagnosed from doctor noticing pallor and finding he had the lowest iron blood count they had ever seen at the surgery - I do hope you find a solution for the little love soon....maybe takes a while for diagnosis to be sure Caro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 3, 2001 Report Share Posted July 3, 2001 > Could you just tell me what were the symptoms of your coliacs? it's just > that I've wondered about this with Mari but everything I've read says that > she wouldn't be thriving if she had it? She's growing and developing well. Jenni - Coeliac symptoms I had but it may be different for children (also look at the website of coeliac society www.coeliac.co.uk ; General info and under publications they have some free leaflets you can down load. episodic unexplained weight lost / diahorrhea / digestive upheavals / pallor / exhaustion / poss link to depression / occasional giddyness (some would say permanent giddyness) / nausea / loss of appetite / with me these alternated between themselves, not constant / anaemia / exhaustion plus insomnia (really nice little combo, that) / history of digestive disorders including lactose intolerance and IBS Many coeliacs are symptomless though - it also runs in families as well - someone on this list had a child diagnosed from no symptoms - someone else was diagnosed from doctor noticing pallor and finding he had the lowest iron blood count they had ever seen at the surgery - I do hope you find a solution for the little love soon....maybe takes a while for diagnosis to be sure Caro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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