And knowing is half the battle
As many of you know I've had health problems a lot in the past six months. On Sunday I ended up calling my doctor's office and the doc on call was nice enough to meet me in the office. He's a very thorough doc and asked lots of questions while looking over all my records -- yay for electronic medical records!
He found something interesting -- seems like I have a rather bad protein deficiency. Albumin (blood protein) levels should be between 3.5 - 5.0. About 9 months ago my levels fell below 3.5 and have continued to fall since then. As of my tests 3 weeks ago I was at 3.1 -- the doc said that was about a 20% deficiency. About 9 months ago I switched to a nearly all Vegetarian diet -- I LOVE protein, it just stopped loving me! :) While in Texas last month I ate lot of protein and after a few days made myself sick.
Early signs of protein deficiency I have:
"Lines" in finger nails
Edema (Swelling)
Fatigue, erratic sleep -- My insomnia last week!
Heart arrhythmias
Nausea
Muscle cramps
For now this means protein powder and protein bars added to my diet. I'm anxious to see how much the added protein helps me!
He found something interesting -- seems like I have a rather bad protein deficiency. Albumin (blood protein) levels should be between 3.5 - 5.0. About 9 months ago my levels fell below 3.5 and have continued to fall since then. As of my tests 3 weeks ago I was at 3.1 -- the doc said that was about a 20% deficiency. About 9 months ago I switched to a nearly all Vegetarian diet -- I LOVE protein, it just stopped loving me! :) While in Texas last month I ate lot of protein and after a few days made myself sick.
Early signs of protein deficiency I have:
"Lines" in finger nails
Edema (Swelling)
Fatigue, erratic sleep -- My insomnia last week!
Heart arrhythmias
Nausea
Muscle cramps
For now this means protein powder and protein bars added to my diet. I'm anxious to see how much the added protein helps me!