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Can being over normal BMI weight cause MGUS to progress faster?
Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Nov 29, 2024 | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
@amyboylan1 An interesting question! From where I sit, currently under treatment for multiple myeloma, and on daily dialysis for end-stage renal disease, I try to look at my general health rather than specific numbers. After all, they are just numbers generated by plugging in certain parameters, and do not take into account an individual being. Is my BMI above "normal"? Yes. Do I feel healthy? Yes, given my circumstances.
Gaining weight from anti-depressants can happen. Getting into a regular exercise routine can help with not only the depression but your healthy weight. Attacking your general health with good habits that fit for you [diet, exercise, accurate medications, mental health concerns] is an individual thing, and we each have different outcomes. Being mindful of how we might respond in any given situation can help us focus on what will be best for us. Should I get outside and walk today? Yes, but my knee is still bothering me and I am afraid I might lose my balance, so I will be careful about my food intake today, and try for that walk tomorrow.
Your basic question of whether above normal BMI will cause MGUS to progress faster, well, my thought is that taking care of yourself and being as healthy as you can will cause any disease process to slow.
Good luck determining what will work best for you. That can take work to figure out! IMNSHO [in my not so humble opinion] what works for you may not work best for someone else. That is why we are here, to share our experiences!
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Thank you! Yes, you have to figure it out for yourself. Obesity is such a complex disease, and it has any number of causes and components. Long ago I figured out that I had this problem that was incredibly difficult to solve, and that I had better work on other elements of my health status. You always need to exercise, stop smoking (the hardest, but you only have to do it once successfully and you're done, it's not a daily fight like food), watch the alcohol, and especially watch the diet. Had I not gone low carb, I think I would have diabetes as well. By going low-carb, I inadvertently ended up eating a very high oxalate diet and got kidney stones - and I desperately miss my spinach.
I'll never stop trying to lose weight, but I am very heartened to know that I'm six years beyond the point where it counts as an important factor in my general health. The single most important thing I've done, in my opinion, aside from stopping smoking, is to eat only good fats - natural fats in their natural state, the traditional ones the world over. Good for your cell walls, good for your hormones, just good food.
I haven't checked the figures lately, but in the original tables on acrylamide (cancer-causing chemical) in potato chips, you could see that the brands fried in lard had very minimal levels and ones cooked in heavily processed fats had very high levels.