I didn't know you could overdose with vitamins? I thought vitamins went pretty much straight through you and weren't accumulated at all. Like, if you have a vitamin intake, and its not used, your body gets rid of it immediately, no?

(which is why "taking more vitamins" wont really make you "healthier", you just have problems if you don't have enough of them. (IT PREVENTS STATUS AILMENTS, IT DOESN'T GIVE YOU BONUSES TO STR. AND CON.))

Holistic medicine is a double-edged sword.

The problem is it is NOT FDA approved, so you really don't know what is in a supplement.

However, if you have a blood test done and you know you are deficient in say Vit C (Yes, proper diet and vitamins DO help prevent disease and cancer. It's all about immune buffing.), then a Vit C tab is good.  Usually, I'd prefer just to drink OJ.  But self-perscribing can be dangerous because you can overdose on a Vitamin as well.

I decided to eat healthy (lots of spinach and stuff), and I ended up with a goiter (It's horrible)!  My physicians were like 'duh, there is nothing wrong with eating that much spinach' (so IMO, regular docs can be just as "quacky"), but after reading that too many veggies and soy (especially dark leafy stuff) can cause goiters in some people.  Once I stopped, and started eating animal products/salt products again, the goiter cleared right up.  It took awhile for the hormones to straighten back up, but I'm healthy has a horse (as far as I can tell) again. My point is mix the evil with the good.

Too Health-nut "Goods" = Goiter aka Thyroid Problems

Too Much (Smoking, drinking, Fatty Foods, etc.) "Evils" = Most likely cancer.

Basically how much you abuse either side hastens the rate.  (I got it pretty fast eating 2 bowls of spinach a day and a subway club with lots of veggies)

It's a horrible balancing act.

You need Iodine for proper thyroid health.  There is little to no Iodine in spinach.  Try taking kelp granules (sprinkle it on salads or whatever it has a salty taste) as 1/2 tsp has 100%DV of Iodine.  You don't get thyroid problems from eating too much vegetables...it's either a deficiency (iodine) or eating foods that upset it (lots of soy...etc).

Also it's possible to overdose on some vitamins/minerals because some of them are toxic at high doses but these are usually pretty high and this really only happens when people take too many supplements.  Unless you eat like 3 full bags of spinach a day then you shouldn't be worried (even I eat a lot of greens in my smoothies).

Also as a general rule there are very few vitamins that are harmful if you have too many of them in your body.  Minerals, however, are almost universally dangerous if you take too many.

Steel, I found two songs while digging through my old files that might cheer you up...

http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/37686/kazesong.mp3
http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/37686/DSV.mp3

Haha gl maes I recommended checking out an ND and I got shit on.

dok has a new friend


awwwwwwwww


anyway, steel, anything on the white blood cell/knee thing? are the doctors even looking further into it or are they writing it off as WHITE BLOOD CELL INJECTIONS

http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/37686/kazesong.mp3

do you have any other kazesongs

today's the last day of my five day chemo for this cycle. can't wait, this whole thing is pretty boring and somehow tiring as well, probably in the drugs.

gonna nap I guess but man this is miserable!

still don't know what caused the foot/knee pain, which is a little concerning. I hope it's just TUMOR DEATH. as I said we have a CAT scan at the end of this, so that will clarify I guess.

Steel, what is your home address and what is your livejournal.

Hope all is well.

I had a dream that I was back in high school for some reason and I ended up in a class full of GW'ers (except we never really mentioned it so we all kinda knew but didn't say, it was awkward) and then someone in the back of the class flipped the calendar to the new month and the calendar picture was Steel and we all cheered and cheered even though we were in the middle of finals and the teacher gave us bad looks.

Steel, what is your home address and what is your livejournal.

Hope all is well.

I'd rather not post my home address since I am actually AT HOME meaning mom's house sooooo. as for livejournal thanks to this hand tingling I never update it, and honestly it's best to keep up with this thread.

anyways, after the five day chemo I was down on Saturday. I mean, fuck. I slept the entire fucking day. part of this is because I take an anti-anxiety med before chemo and doing it five days in a row really fucked with my head I think, I still got a bit of wooziness.

other than that, it's been okay. I have the awful taste in my mouth, there's a pinched nerve in my right shoulder that has tingling all in my right pinky and ring finger, some nausea, tiredness, but I've been all right. there's a bleomycin chemo tomorrow, but like I said that's like two hours max so. after two weeks I go in for a CAT scan. basically here's what we're looking at possibilitywise with the CAT.

1. The tumor is gone- pretty unlikely, but my god wouldn't that be great? TWO CHEMOS AND HEY IT'S GONE. too bad I could feel it this morning when I lay on my side.

2. The tumor has shrank- most certainly. I haven't had breathing problems really, no swelling, the markers all appear to be on course, chemo is having an effect almost certainly. hopefully the tumor has shrank A LOT, but we won't know

3. The tumor has remained the same- unlikely, but it's possible. this would be a bad outcome, because it means chemo is just holding it in place, not killing it. it's doubtful but that's when we really start to worry.

4. The tumor has grown- incredibly unlikely, and also scary. if this has happened, we're looking at the other side of that 50% square in the face. but there's been no real sign; the effects I've had have been chemo related, other than this pinched nerve which while worrying probably is stress related.

anyways, yeah, another chemo tomorrow, then another in a week, plus a CAT scan!

as for vitamins I'm just taking a Centrum Silver, mostly because I do eat kind of weird sometimes and it's best to stay healthy as possible through these things. I wish I wasn't so physically weak from the chemo though; I get winded going up the steps.