CLENT INDEPENDENT

YOUR HEALTH PAGE

What's one of the main topics of anyone's conversation and 'health' isn't far from the top of the list? Are we load of hypocondriacs or are we really feeling unwell and if so what can be done about it? Flora web site HERE<

First of all living where you do in Clent Division goes a long way to better health and life longevity, use the country walks to release your pent up emotions and that's free!-none of this is supplied by a council!-Gloria >here<

You get an ache and immediately go to your doctor and ask for a pill to take it away, pity we can't do it with the coimncil's?- but if you waited a while it may just go away on it's own, could be a muscle strain, cramp, or growing old?

The doctor will always err on the cautious if you complain of chest pains, the doctor must have been seen to exercise the general rule of thumb and 'send you off to the hospital', there you get the tests and come back with a prescription that can fill your medicine cabinet in one call to the chemist?-when taken, many feel better, or is it psycosomatic, all in the mind that you feel better?-many have taken placebo's and felt better?

Alan Johnson wants everyone on a statin, high cholestral or not, he also wants fluoride in the tap water supply and that's another issue with this council of ours in supporting the addition to our tap water supply.link to fluoride >here<

So there you go, are you ill or are you making yourself ill?

This page will give information that you either take or ignore or take on as extra information in your quest for better health from your own efforts or that of your doctors-the doctor will invariably get you to take the pills to cover themselves, if you don't take them and you get worse or drop dead, they have done what the hospital told them to do, called pass the buck!-But if you look at yourself, your style of living, you may be able to throw all those tablets down the pan?-Pills, they all have side effects, you went to the doctors with an ailment and now you have several, you look at the side effects of your pills and there they all are, they list them for you, so you can cross them off as they appear?

I am no doctor, we have plenty in the family, GP's, Surgeons, Consultants, even Nuclear Physics, all in their own field of medicine and all say that mainly it's the individual that can help themselves before coming to the doctor, many patients not happy till they get a pill...all in the mind?

 Myself, I am very interested in my health seeing as I am now in my 60's, a very healthy and sporty life, yes I smoked many years ago, drank with the lads after sport, like a glass of wine with my meal at night, may go over sometimes, but do realise the importance of weight control since I was diagnosed with angina three years ago. I also suffer with what many of us suffer with, no not the wife and kids and local council's, acid reflux caused by a weakening sometimes of the valve at the base of the tube you swallow your food and drink down/through, you can take tablets to reduce the acid for this, no one knows what long term side effects you may have though? Heart problems can be all manner of conditions, blocked arteries seem to be the common one and cleaning out manually seems the norm but can be dangerous as plaque can be pushed into the heart and it's good night Vienna?

So how do I battle through?...and this is the page where I would like you all to contribute to and in doing this we either commiserate or find something out we didn't know before and let's face it no man is an island and you never stop learning?-tell that the local council's?

DO YOU HAVE ANY REMEDIES THAT STOP YOU FROM GOING TO THE DOCTOR?

You pick many up along lifes long path, some rubbish ideas you wouldn't give your dog and some are a panacea to making you feel better, complimentary medicine is now used in the NHS, once reputed WITCH doctor stuff!

We will also include many health links on this page for you to go to.....look out for them!

If you have any remedies please send them in, I will start with a few and let's see how we get on, by the way my Mother is 100 years old this year and her phylosopy was little bit of this and that, no smoking, no fat meats, good meat and not cheap stuff, small amounts, at least five veggies on the plate, out the door in the morning with a breakfast inside you, over drinking is not on and never forget the walks, forget the car and you'll go further than the car, don't end up in the scrap yard the same time or before the car?-and no politics!

FLATULENCE:
Can be caused by many things, over eating being top of this list, then you go down the list with medical problems, but medical problems do not always require that magic pill?

I find that a quarter teaspoon of ginger powder and two tablespoons of lemon juice in boiling hot water, in a beaker size cup, left overnight in the fridge to infuse. Next day strain through kitchen towel into another up, watch out for the dregs/sediment, drink about 1/4 cupful and see how you go for a few hours, in the afternoon drink some more and last thing at night-next morning do the same again but leave out the afternoon drink, you are then taking it first thing in the morning and last one at night...try to keep off the tea and coffee to give it an ven chance, if okay introduce slowly-be sensible?

The idea of this is that ginger/lemon bathes and soothes the valve at the base of the oesophagus, this stops the acid from coming up, it doesn't stop acid build up, you need acid in your stomach to assist digestion of your food, I feel pills like Lansoprazole(side effects >here<), have too many side effects and trying this first or knocking off a pill for a few days is a good trial to stop the pills completely-yours truly has been on this for two months now, idea passed on, with only occasional small bouts of indigestion, but looking back in the day as to what I have eaten normally tells me what the culprit was, to take a pill to counterract a curry, too much booze is just gross stupidity in my mind?-you may only go a couple of days off a pill and may reach for a pill, but drink some more ginger, don't be weak, it's weakness that sent you to the doctors for an easy way out?-failure, well you tried, suceess like me that' been on a pill for nearly 7 years with loads of side effects and no longer, but I MAY HAVE TO BACK ON THEM ONE DAY, BUT I WILL TRY MY HARDEST NOT TO?

HIGH CHOLESTRAL:>NHS SITE CHOICES>HERE<    AND YOUR CHILD'S HEALTH<HERE<

Caused by either poor eating habits or you just make loads naturally that cannot be controlled so you HAVE to be on pills/statins.

How do you know to start off with and what's the culprit?..you have a blood test and the test will throw up three defined areas that the doctors are interested on, they are HDL, TRIGLYCERIDES and LDL, they are all important, but the LDL seems to be the one doctors want well down the list, the other two you can work on yourself normally.

Again this is on yours truly when mine was high at 7.50 total..I knew nothing at all about cholestral, told by the doctor you must go onto a statin to bring down the total, so I did and wish I HADN'T!

Side effects were horendous to say the least, after 12 months my muscles were aching like hell, told I was not fit even though I played golf twice a week and do a manual job as a dental engineer, I became breathless, told I was unfit again, got that bad I had to stop golf, swimming and then the ultimate I couldn't take my dog for walks??-saw doctor again, she sent me off for xrays on knees and back, came back clear-sent to physiothgerapy and told if I didn't believe in the therapy and felt it was the statins then the NHS would not carry through the physiotherapy?-yep!-Simvastatin side effects>here<

Eventually I said enough was enough last September 2008 and decided to take my own life into my own hands, after all it's my life and not the State, or the local council?-First off I looked closely at Gloria Hunniford's adverts on FLORA spreads, yogurts and the three in one drinks-I decided to try them, but first of all went to a friend also a pharmacist for a blood test, it said 6.12, I then set about my quest, I made a date with him the following month, he said it's to soon, I said I want it done!!!..Okay, okay he said I get the drift, I am serious I said, I want to try this out myself, these statins are ruining my life. I also told my doctor I was off the Simvastatin-Since, I have had 4 tests since, each one slightly lowering and am now at 4.7 total, but in that total the LDL is borderline high, that means I need more exercise, I am trying, but the statin to lower cholstral levels has crippled me almost and left me breathess, but am a man with a mission and have said I WILL SUCCEED.

WHAT DID I DO TO GET IT DOWN?

FLORA THREE IN ONE DRINK EVERY MORNING.

MIXTURE OF OATS AND BRAN AND SULTAN'S ETC WITH SEMI SKIMMED MILK

(OATS REDUCES CHOLESTRAL)

ONE PIECE OF TOAST WITH FLORA LOWERING COLESTRAL TYPE...the other piece goes to the dog!

MY GINGER DRINK WHICH ALSO LOWERS CHOLESTRAL BY THE WAY.

DECAFINATED COFFEE SO I HEAR CREATES MORE CHOLESTRAL-CHECK THAT OUT YOURSELVES?

LUNCH:

2 PIECES BREAD, FLORA MARG AGAIN, SMALL AMOUNT OF ORDINARY CHEESE, SALAD, GULP OF MY GINGER DRINK...sometimes a bowl of soup, or if time allows a kipper!

TEA:Don't have ready made stuff it contains all fats you don't want!-many restuarants will tell you wht goes into their meals?

FIVE VEGGIES, WHATEVER MEAT YOU WANT AND TWO GLASSES OF WINE.

OFF TO BED, NO SUPPER!!!

All through the day I eat apples, oranges when I get peckish. Fish twice a week the oily type, kippers favourite on Sunday mornings with bread and butter, FLORA CHELESTRAL LOWERING TYPE THAT IS.

Apples has an effect on lowering cholestral by the way...so is blueberries etc.

Important; look at the label on the bottle, tin, box, check the fats, it's the saturated one's you don't need, take the very lowest only or all your work will be in vain or IN YOUR VEINS?

Have added links to Flora site for recipes etc and dear old Gloria.

I HAVE ALREADY SPOKEN TO MANY PEOPLE ON STATIN USE AND ALL HAVE SAID THAT THE SIDE EFFECTS ARE HORENDOUS!-IN AMERICA INDIVIDUALS HAVE BEEN PAID OUT BY PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES ADMITTING THEIR PRODUCT CAUSED THEIR SIDE EFFECTS AND RUINED THEIR LIVES...GO UP ON ANY WEB SITE AND THEY ALL TELL THE SAME!

I always say if you have something to say about anything and it doesn't insult anyone, then say it for it may help someone else?

This site is to help us as we go along life's path of the little niggly ailments we get, including local council's as I said previously, let's hear yours and the people that are out there that want to mock, then go ahead and send in your foollish emails, but I bet you don't add your true name and address?-sorry had to say that folks, so many nasty folk around these days, don't know what drives these types really, perhaps they need to see their doctor?--FOR A PILL?