Hi Germaine,
LOL--Please don't think I couldn't benefit from some advice! It's very easy for me to miss obvious things, especially when it concerns my own body.
Yesterday my doc said to reduce the cyclo to 100 mg. After continuing pain, today he said to lower it to 50 mg. When I took ctx in '06, I increased it slowly. Hopefully this will be fast enough to get the Wegs under control. I've never seen a coated ctx....
The Zone diet is very good for certain constitutions. It has certainly worked great for you! With my constitution, I'll lose weight for a couple weeks, then will actually start gaining. Within a month, I'll get sinus headaches, constipation, irritability. In Ayurvedic medicine, this is a typical response for a Kapha constitution. Many years ago Oprah--who is also Kapha-- tried such a diet. I wrote her and suggested she ask her friend Deepak Chopra for his Ayurvedic opinion. She stuck it out, and within a month was miserable with the same symptoms.
The way we react to pred also has a lot to do with our constitution type. Pred is considered "cold" in Eastern medicine. Kapha is already cold, and adding more cold causes a lot of weight gain. Pitta constitutions are most benefitted by a zone diet. Pitta is hot, so pred typically causes the least weight gain for them.
For me, physical activity is very important when it comes to losing weight. Not being able to exercise at all for 3.5 yrs has been disastrous for me. My doc thinks the ctx will get the Wegs under better control than it's been for months, and in the end may actually strengthen me. I sure hope so!
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