I need to type shorter answers! By the time I get one done, I'm behind! Gimme a few and I'll get caught back up!
I have this problem too
But I like reading your posts.
You’re much more eloquent than I.
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I need to type shorter answers! By the time I get one done, I'm behind! Gimme a few and I'll get caught back up!
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Nope, don't like them, that made perfect sense, I'm leaving them off, and thank you!
Or eat blueberries for the rest of my life?
Howdy, my friend!! Potatoes and Pepsi are the two things that might be my undoing!! I don't have diabetes, although years and years ago I was told I was pre-diabetic. But then I never had a bad glucose test or A1C after that. Still, it's in the charts so I have to say it. Stinks. My renal issues aren't caused by high blood pressure - I don't have nor have I ever had high blood pressure! Funny, considering that I have 4 stents in each leg artery and one in my heart, and that's usually the first thing the cardiologists and vascular surgeon remark on...no hypertension. So there goes the two leading causes of kidney disease, right out the window.While not experiencing kidney issues (yet) I can certainly identify with the empty plate and hungry aspects. I have diabetes (diagnosed last spring) and struggle every day to find foods that are ok. Potatoes....oh how I miss my potatoes.
Kidney issues are a possible consequence of uncontrolled diabetes. It is not a place anyone wants to end up for any reason.
Blooie, I understand food struggles. No one can say "Hey this is the diet for diabetics". My doctors cannot, the dietician cannot, the magazines for diabetics cannot. My theory is that being individuals things hit each of us differently.
I can have eggs....but no toast. No yolk dunking here either.
I find I skip entire sections of grocery stores now.
So.... Now my questions.....
Are there certain things other than salt you are to avoid?
Are there things that are helpful to eat? (I know food burnout can happen just eating the "right" stuff)
Having cardiac AND kidney troubles has to be very limiting.
I am hopeful we (the BYC family) can brainstorm and help find tasty recipes that are ok for you and others that may be having similar restrictions in their diets.
Hi, Blooie, I'm Stephanie. No kidney disease here, but my doctor tells me I'm diabetic and I've been diagnosed with gastroparesis. That means my food digests very slowly or sometimes, it seems, not at all. There's lots of food I can't eat and basically, food hurts. I'm hungry a lot but can't eat. I don't know what I can eat either. So I'll follow this thread and support you any way I can. It's no fun when our bodies don't work the way they're supposed to, is it? But you have a lot of friends here and hopefully folks will jump in with answers for you so you can reach for something besides blueberries!
Not snoopy at all!! I'm not dealing with kidney disease but have had some relatives deal with varying levels of the disease, although I was too young to really pay enough attention to the dietary restrictions...they used to use the holidays as the once or twice a year cheat!!
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Yes that too!! Surely there must be something besides blueberries!
Blooie! What a pickle you're in.
What does your doc think about the Mediterranean diet, as opposed to the far more restrictive renal diet? I mean, we know he's is in bed with blueberry growers lining his pockets with that sweet blueberry cash, but the mum (nurse and health nutter) mentioned that the Med diet is now often recommended instead.
I don't have firsthand experience, but I love researching, and learning. Following along.