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Has anyone else been diagnosed with Vagus Nerve Dysfunction?
Brain & Nervous System | Last Active: May 23 1:08pm | Replies (55)Comment receiving replies
@marko82 thanks for your reply. Now there are so many lactose free products available at the grocery store for you to enjoy. Does plain dairy yogurt bother you? It should not have lactose in it because it gets eaten by the bacteria. Anyways, you can find lactose free dairy milk. I never choose lactose free milk to make yogurt because the bacteria would never grow without the milk sugar, lactose. It would be good for a diabetic diet though. I like to eat the fudge bars made with yogurt. It is a liquid and therefore can be easily digested. There are many options using plant based yogurts today.
There is a higher risk for developing diabetes with the gastoparesis condition. You may have gained control of your digestive problems long before diabetes. That is excellent your diabetes is managed through diet. Exercise should help with that too because it burns more carbohydrates. My mother at 91 is a recent diabetic. She started on metformin with no health issues but was determined to lower her hemoglobin AIC. She now controls her blood sugar with diet and exercise only, no medications. I am not a diabetic but was concerned due to my gastroparesis. My hemoglobin AIC was normal. Now that I know I have this condition I am more aware of foods and their content. Glad you found relief. You are so right. We take our health for granted until we show problems. But somehow we manage our condition to keep going. Nice chatting with you.
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I almost ended up in the hospital because I bought into the ACTIVA commercial yrs ago. Stupid me ate a whole container instead of one tspn to see how I reacted. My belly blew up from gas, then subsided with major diarrhea. I gave the other 5 containers to my neighbor. NO lactose products ever! Just not worth it. The enzymes keep the gas to a minimum so I'm socially acceptable. (Did you know the Swedes did a "gas" test yrs ago. People kept track of how many times a day they passed it. Average was 16x/day.) :O) When my husband was alive I bought soy milk - all they had on the market then - so I could eat the pancakes, etc I made for him. After he died, no more soy milk. Blech. Cabot makes lactose free cheddar and Jack cheese. I do use those IN MODERATION. Goat and sheep milk is lactose free. Sometimes I can buy non-cow feta. But at this point I don't really care. I've lived so long w/o dairy I don't miss it. I had stomach problems ~18 years before I was diagnosed with diabetes. No connection. I'm glad your Mom is off the Metformin. It is dreadful - has bad side effects. A friend had chronic diarrhea for yrs from it. I got gastroenteritis from it. Then went into hypoglycemia from the Glypizide she put me on & almost passed out from it. So NO more diabetes meds. That's why I'm diet controlled. I do take several supplements incl a sports mineral and electrolyte one for the internal vibrations that started at the beginning of the year (other people write about them on Connect). Getting old ain't for wimps. My Drs are DOs because they are less quick to hand out Rxs.
Marko82