I'm talking to a friend online right now, and i told her about the doctors today, and i said: "I guess God is teaching me patience right now"
Friend: "patience, and to look at the blessings more. you're not anorexic anymore, and that's huge."
very good point.
i thanked her for that.
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your bones can heal. you're young enough. what kind of calcium do they have you on? regular old calcium or fosomax? You're younger than I was when they caught the bone loss and I was able to regain a lot of bone mass by taking fosomax for awhile. It's a post-menopausal medication, but it's pretty standard for anorexic patients to take it as well.
oh. and i hate gatorade. vitamin water has some good stuff. just make sure you don't get one with ginseng or guarana.
then there is pedialyte or gerber's version. i always preferred the gerber version. Which I can't find here. And it's much better than bananas, because bananas only give you potassium, not all the magnesium and calcium and phosphorous you need.
i dont want any more medication though. especially that kind after what ive read about it... is that one somehow different than the others?
i take around 1800mg spread throughout a day, plus the calcium from whatever i eat... and vitamin D. seems like it should do something.
do you really think my electrolytes could still be weird? i don't think they were that weird at Rogers, at least they didn't make a big deal of it to me. I don't know... it seems strange that after all this time that would still be going on.
i didn't think about it until later but i should have asked 'if you didn't know about the ED, what would you say the muscle pains are?'
if your metabolism is off at all, your electrolytes could be off, too.
why don't you want to take that kind of medication?
because they cause teeth to fall out.
and why is it taking so damn long to get everything regulated? what more does my body expect me to do?
nine months really isn't that long of a time. considering that you had the eating disorder much longer, nine months is just the beginning. my metabolism is still screwed up.
and people get electrolyte imbalances without having eds. have you tried drinking gatorade like he suggested?
the calcium drugs have negative effects with women who've been on them a long time. you won't be.
and while it would be nice to ask him what he would say if he didn't know about the ED, that's an unfair question on some levels. Especially this early in recovery. You can't take it out of the picture yet.
i haven't tried the gatorade because he said to ask my dietician for further ideas. she agrees with me that gatorade is sugar water with trace amounts of electrolytes. it barely has anything in it. she emailed me a list of foods with the highest amounts of them, so im going to try to get more that way.
I guess 9 months just seems like forever to me. I feel like it should count for something... and it doesn't seem to.
9 months does count for something. But it's not long enough for your body to heal.
My dietician worked only with ED patients. There's a reason they ask you to take the electrolytes in through a liquid format. Your body absorbs them faster and you need the water.
I know you hate caloric beverages, but you really do need them.
that makes sense, but there is hardly anything in it.
i'm not trying to be difficult, but seriously, an entire bottle of gatorade only has 75mg of potassium while a banana has 450mg
and if i'm trying to reach 3000mg/day then that's a lot of gatorade.
the only other thing it has in there is sodium, which i don't have a problem getting.
no one said not to eat a banana. or to get all the electrolytes via gatorade (although vitamin water or electrolyte water tends to be better for you). But some of it really should come through liquid form. And I think pedialyte is the best. It's formulated specifically to get high doses of electrolytes into your body fast without the sugar basis.
ok, if all goes well, i'm going to swim tonight.
but i have a question- if it is an electrolyte problem- wouldn't ALL of my muscles be affected? why would electrolytes decided on 2 muscle groups to not go down to? i dont understand why only my calves and the bottoms of my feet would be problems.
especially since last summer he gave me an entirely different idea as to what was wrong with them, which he seemed to ignore while i was there. i was just so upset over what he was telling me about my bones that i didn't mention what he told me last summer, but when i call him in a week or two i'm going to.
(oh, and i drank stuff yesterday. i'll play his games to prove him wrong.)
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