Recent content by twolfy

Nice work on that install. As long as your pitch is correct on your waste line you should be fine. If you weren't having blockage problems before you shouldn't have a problem now. Tom

Congrats on taking action and improving your health.

46 yr old Sears Coldspot upright freezer.

Also found out that there is a link between not being able to sleep and higher incidence of diabetes. I'll need to reseach this more fully as I don,t sleep very well at all and have not for the last few years. Golden years are not so golden right now but I do still feel fortunate in life!

Interesting info for me as diabetes seems to have a higher incidence due to genes more so that with weight, from supposedly eating too much of the "wrong" foods. I'm in the pre stage right now. Strong family history for me. I think I,m only one of 5 siblings without diabetes and i,m the second...

"My advice: be the #1 advocate for your own health, and don't always believe everything your doctor tells you, especially if your symptoms persist. Invest some time in doing your own research....it's worth it" +1 RAE are you in da UP or the northern part of the lower peninsula? Tom

Ally Carbon tetrachloride if I remember correctly. Numerous steroid injections for spine issues plus oral steroids and pain meds. I just push thru the pain instead of using those therapies now so hopefully will help my numbers. Being retired now I can slow down on days when not feeling great and...

Thanks Ally. I've been able to get off all the pain relievers I was on so that is helpful. Do you know what contributed to your kidney disease?

The best part of the article was tell young people to have money automatically taken out of their checks ( and invested)and not let it go to your hands first.

Magnesium gets overlooked quite a bit. A lot of people don't get enough in foods they eat.

Thanks for the replies and the discussion. I remember someone talking about CKD and calcium intake. I think it was to keep calcium intake low if kidneys are compromised because it can't excrete it out so it builds up in the arteries causing vascular issues. Something to that effect.

That's what I thought too but get conflicting answers to that question. I drink between 1/2 to 1 gal/day. Always have been good about that. Been told now that is maybe too much. Eggs are bad you , no now eggs are good for you, no the white is good but the yolk is bad but now the yolk is ok so...

I'll have to read up on that. Everything I've been reading lately, not kidneyrelated, says most of us don't get enough potassium in our diets so I have been trying to increase mine through higher potAssium foods. I will read up on potassium and kidney disease

Thanks mama.

Thanks Bamaman. Hopefully everything stays off for a long time. Good choice on the pump. It can really help you manage the disease.