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SCD: I’m Doing it Wrong
Originally published at Diana Sherman. Please leave any comments there.
I know I’m doing SCD wrong. Doing it backwards, really.
You’re supposed to start out with a more limited diet, much like the elimination diet I did back in 08-09. Except more limited than that. This phase lasts 2-5 days. And then you start adding foods in, going in slow stages.
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Going SCD
Originally published at Diana Sherman. Please leave any comments there.
I’m sure my father will be thrilled with this one. I’ve decided to go SCD.
The Specific Carbohydrate Diet was initially designed to treat celiac disease, lo these many years ago. It’s very restrictive, and therefore hard to convince patients to stick to. Unless they have ( Read more... ) -
Things to Do with a Zeo & Why FAA OSA Rules Suck
Originally published at Diana Sherman. Please leave any comments there.
Another interesting thing to do with a Zeo: make your partner wear it.
Particularly if your partner, like mine, complains about being tired all the time and thinks you’re the cause because you always want to go to bed late.
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Of ERs and Kidney Infections (brief overview)
Ended up in the Stanford ER most of Thursday night with a kidney infection. No one knew it was a kidney infection until after a whole big battery of tests, because I wasn't exhibiting pain in the standard kidney infection places ( Read more... ) -
Follow Up on my PCOS Poll
PCOS stands for Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome. It's a condition in women (obviously, seeing as it involves ovaries) that can cause a whole host of problems. Not everyone has all of these problems, and there are often other potential conditions that can have similar sypmtoms.- Irregular menses (this seems to be the one constant - everyone with PCOS has ( Read more... )
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Health Poll
I totally understand if y'all don't want to give me this info, but I am curious:
Poll PCOS
Edited to add, the specific answers will only be viewable to me.
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A visit to the doctor (Girly stuff)
When you arrive at PAMF (AKA the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, but I like calling it PAMF because that makes it sound like some sort of elite diaper brand) you are greeted with a massive complex of buildings, and several levels of underground parking. I am unused to medical institutions of this... stature. I'm used to smaller buildings with one out ( Read more... )
