Experiences with

Low carbohydrate diet

On Friday I'm due to have my 6th Nucala injection. The first 3 have been amazing. I felt a new person after battling with Eosinophilic Asthma. After my 4th & 5th I have not felt quite so good and now 'doubt' is beginning to creep in. I notice occasional back pain and aching in some joints. My Peak

I am a 28 year old woman with most of the symptoms of hypothyroidism: - extreme lethargy (I need to sleep at least 10 hours a night and nap during the day) - zero libido - periods all over the place (sometimes 28 days apart, sometimes 40) - hair falling out - have put on weight but have less of

Hi does anyone with aorta stenosis, worry about breathlessness. G.P has given me a peak flow meter. I do not fully understand as yet at what level is a worrying reading.

Just want to introduce.myself , I'm herman7275, have been on a low carb diet and exercise since 2019, came on this at origination, but then lost coms for awile, this is my inteoduction to this weight.loss site, Tabbycat!!! Not sure the whole deal offered from this site!! Can You give me your openers

I’m now on 300mg spironalactone and 120 frusamide per day to try and shift ascities. Trying my best to stick to a low sodium diet as advised. still decompensated with a hernia developing In abdomen, pronounced chest bone and coccydynia which is a really sore tip end of the coccyx bone which makes it

After recovering from chest infection , asthma flare up and asthma attacks. I still have a productive cough and have to sleep sitting up. My peak flow hasn't recovered yet and is 400/500. My asthma woke me up last night and my peak flow was 380/500. After 4 puffs of my salamol I was able to go back to

I had same problem Omeprazol didn’t suit me lactose/ gluten free diet cured symptoms in a week

Hi, I had an oesophagectomy almost 2 years ago and it’s been a difficult recovery process. I was very slim before the op and am now maintaining my new weight but can’t gain any. Im having frequent small meals but often in the afternoon I get terrible attacks of low blood sugar and sometimes feel I

Hi everyone first of all I would like to say thank you to everyone for your good wishes, it was very much appreciated. Good News! it’s not cancer, the consultant put sprays up my nose & inserted a camera on a wire which went down into my throat yuck! he said he saw mucus in my throat but nothing

Last Thursday I developed a really bad headache - I was at a wedding and the music was loud and I blamed that (I don't drink so it's not related to that). The headache has never left - I have had it every day since although not just as bad. I believe I have Hashimotos although never diagnosed - just

hi Looking for any advice I suffer with AF / tachycardia and asthma The last 3 years my breathing has been heavy walking upstairs / inclines and prior to medication for high heart rate I was breathless more often than not and very often sat next to a fan all night as I felt my oxygen was getting

Hello everyone, I am just writing a post as I wanted to see if I am alone in this and whether anyone has any suggestions to help. I will give a bit of a backstory to this. I had mild asthma from the age of 13 however it wasn't serious enough that my parents never took me to get diagnosed. Fast forward

Hello everyone, I am new here and learning such a lot from the hugely valuable resource that is this forum - thank you all for the time you take to help people like me. Please could I have some help in interpreting my recent Medichecks advanced thyroid panel and how to move forward from this assessment

Two years ago I had a massive flare and was in a lot of pain / extreme fatigue. I was on prednisolone which was like a magic cure initially and then caused a host of gastric problems. I also trialled methotrexate tablets and methotrexate injections and really struggled with the side effects. After about

Tuesday my asthma started to flare-up with drop in my peak flow 350/500 and I was really tired. So I started my rescue steriods and regular salamol every 4 hours and I hope that this would calm my asthma. Wednesday I had a telephone consultation with a doctor. I was coughing every time I excerted mysef

Hi I've bought an asthma-1 Vitalograph FEV1 to monitor my asthma between appointments as I don't think peak flow really shows my asthma up very well. When I blow into it it just shows a number eg 3.87 , not a percentage as it doesn't measure FVC and there's no instructions in with it other than a diagram

I’m having a difficult time shifting my diet to low carb to combat the sugar intake. Any suggestions on how to get started? Thanks

Hi, I have weird asthma, am on maximum therapy and wondered what effect high dose antihistamines and prednisolone have on your blood test results. Every time I ask my consultant I'm told it's irrelevant, also is our medication taken into account when we complete breathing tests? The technician who

Hi everyone I have severe asthma, taking Seretide 500, 10mg Montelukast a day. Daily antihistamine and 5mg Pred a day for adrenal insuffiency (hope to be weaned of that soon...) Also lansoprazole for acid reflux. Recently had this nasty virus that is doing the rounds, cough and cold, sore throat etc

8 months on from my first noobie post on the forum asking for help. I’m pretty pleased with this, feeling so much better than I did, the advice here has been life changing. Still work to do, very achy, limited capacity to do anything outside of turning up to work/home stuff but that is an improvement