Dear everyone

[trixtah]

Thank you all so much for your birthday wishes the other day; it was lovely. It was nice getting all those good wishes when I was feeling a bit feeble.

I am slowly getting to grips with online stuff after only just getting to eating real food today. I was going to work this week, but the bug (and the fact I was only eating when I felt I was going to keel over from lack of energy) certainly kept the old energy levels down. Still, I imagine I'll be bouncing back over the next few days and boring you with my normal levels of comment and rantings.

Oh, and the miracle cure for actually eating real food today was my finally hitting on taking a probiotic supplement via capsule. I'd been desultorily eating good quality yoghurt (it's too cold, really), and faxon suggested the wee Yakult-type shots, but since I don't drink milk, the idea of sculling one of those made me pukey just thinking of it. Taking the capsules - duh! - gets around that particular problem, there are generally more organisms in a dose, and the capsule design supposedly delivers more of them intact to the lower intestine (rather than mainly the stomach).

Anyways, whether or not it's a coincidence, my digestion seems a heck of a lot more normal today, after starting them yesterday (no TMI, blergh), and I actually had an appetite for lunch and dinner. With protein. And fats. OMG!

Comments

snap

[grimreaperess.livejournal.com]

I'm seeing my Dr tomorrow about my guts, I might ask about that probiotic. I take acidopholous on and off, it seems to help a bit but I still can't seem to shake the symptoms completely.

I'm glad you can eat again.
Guts!
And birthday!

Re: snap

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

If you've gotten some help from just acidopholous, it may be that more of that kind of thing will help. Hope the doctor went well!

Re: snap

[grimreaperess.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It went a bit scarily, might not be my guts after all. Many specialists to come.

[buddleia.livejournal.com]

Wahey! *cooks you dinner*

[soulful-aimee.livejournal.com]

Besides digestion, what can probiotics help with? I've heard many good things but don't know a lick about them. There is so much natural advice out there who knows what to follow.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

It's pretty much just digestion that probiotics help with. And really, that's only if your intestinal flora aren't up to snuff for one reason or another. You need them to start metabolising certain types of food, so it makes sense to supplement them if you're deficient for some reason. Because of the fact you're digesting your food better, you're obviously absorbing more nutrients, thus some of the additional benefits that some people claim.

[filkferengi]

Yay for returning appetite[s]!

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Yay indeed! :-D