Mind Strong! Body Weak!

[elfs]

Man, I don't know what's wrong with me this week. I've been good to myself, and eating well, and all that stuff, and yet today my body goes into revolt. My eyes itch; every muscle in my back is killing me, I have a 'roid flareup as bad as anything I ever had in adolescence.

And you know what's worse? I had my annual physical on Monday: I'm as healthy as a dragon. Heart rate normal, cholesterol low, blood pressure low, skin and muscle tone excellent, diet excellent, exercise routine fair. After listening to my first-world-only complaints, she gave me only two prescriptions: shorts through the summer, and a daylight therapy light with dawn simulation once dawn comes after my usual waking time.

When we talked about diet, I mentioned the JAMA article about how no study had been made linking dietary cholestorol and serum cholestorol. "Yeah," she said. "It's not that. It's genes. Genes, simple starches and sugar." She also recommended vitamin D3, but when I pointed out that doses of 4,000 IU and up were associated with bone brittleness, she said, "I take 1000. Which is in that 'We don't know if it does any good or not, but it doesn't hurt' range."

I like my doc. I just wish we all knew more.

Comments

[urox.livejournal.com]

I was found to be vitamin D deficient and put on 50k IU per week. 10 weeks of that got me up to the lower end of normal levels.

Now I maintain with 2000 IU every day. I can feel it if I go a week or two without it.

Eye itchies

[pieforeveryone.livejournal.com]

If your eyes just started itching this week, one possibility is a mild grass allergy. Grass season is kicking into high gear this week. Most people get sinus drippage before eye itch, but a lot of medicines incidentally treat that while leaving the eyes alone.