Aspies sharing medical advice & symptoms

[Kayla55]

Hi,

Does anyone have helpful information regarding medical issues and medicine that could be accredited to combined community effort to assist with medical issues.

Personally aspirin gives me heartburn, I use paracetamol. Eno or rennies don't really help with reflux. Maybe it's fussy eater but my blood pressure is low but I am one of those underweight types of anti-socials. Monitor blood pressure. Take loads of calcium and magnesium supplements.

Only take steroids for prescribed medical use, if you want to improve child's school progress try research bacteria in guy and recent Australian findings as this is better. People may not realise adverse effects drugs can have on autistic people and need for low dosage.

My mother is diabetic, but she stabilises with a healthy diet, and it's a lot to do with nutritional intake.
If a toddler/child isn't readily eating solids then try smoothies, milkshakes.....progress from preparing milkshake to serving ice cream and spoon in front of them. Allow them to be curious and decide for themselves if they interested.
Try waffles, ice cream, nuts and cookies
I'm sure this will help

 

[Kayla55]

Just a note regarding low functioning people, it would destroy any mother's hope and no, it's not receiving same attention as it should.
I would like to volunteer to get better idea, but this is limited to doctors and this is why I think it's aspies to make more difference.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

I know quite a bit about herbs and holistic health care/ home nursing.

 

[Owliet]

My mother is diabetic, but she stabilises with a healthy diet, and it's a lot to do with nutritional intake.

Not to be that person but, my mom is technically a diabetic but there are different types of diabetic needs. For example, having a healthy diet is good overall but she also needs insulin. A person who is type 1 Can have all the healthy diet they need but also needs daily insulin. Whilst type 2 can also be managed by insulin, it’s less complicated to manage compared to type 1 Which can be more complicated that just changing their nutritional intake. If someone reading your post thought being diabetic meant just changing their diet to something healthy without understanding there are different types, then this could be dangerous.

 

[Kayla55]

Defy the odds...

She was on insulin ND the clinic I took her is good, changed her to tablets, the advice was since she fled JHB for dear life she had stopped meds altogether and this worried them, of course they responsible if something happens.

People have defied physio for years, changing the view to keep active as doctors in old times would've disagreed.

Many people have chosen positive or healthy lives and changed.

Over a decade ago my mom's was diagnosed as having a heart attack, it was stone which makes sense for diabetes. I was clueless at time and people die going into JHB or Livingston clinics. I started on WebMD to double check on doctors. We expect were also really blessed by God.

Another family had young girl constantly admitted to hospital, very little advice from docs to even inform about grommets as infections can affect senses, child was constantly having asthma and flu?

 

[Owliet]

Defy the odds...

She was on insulin ND the clinic I took her is good, changed her to tablets, the advice was since she fled JHB for dear life she had stopped meds altogether and this worried them, of course they responsible if something happens.

People have defied physio for years, changing the view to keep active as doctors in old times would've disagreed.

Many people have chosen positive or healthy lives and changed.

Over a decade ago my mom's was diagnosed as having a heart attack, it was stone which makes sense for diabetes. I was clueless at time and people die going into JHB or Livingston clinics. I started on WebMD to double check on doctors. We expect were also really blessed by God.

Another family had young girl constantly admitted to hospital, very little advice from docs to even inform about grommets as infections can affect senses, child was constantly having asthma and flu?

A type 1 diabetic condition NEEDS insulin Your mom must have a different type of diabetic if she was changed to tablets. That means she’s type 2. A person with type 2 CAN at least manage their diabetic condition with a healthy lifestyle. My Dad has also been diagnosed as type 2 and he has tablets and advised to take a healthier life style. A type 1 diabetic can NOT. And someone without a pancreas definitely cannot. They rely on insulin because their body does not pump the insulin. Sometimes they are even Given a pump to give them insulin directly because managing it can be a bit difficult. I know someone from university who was also type 1 and he would not be able to manage his condition by having a healthier lifestyle to “defy the odds”. He’d go hypoglycemic and need immediate medical attention.

 

[Kayla55]

Absolutely, I suppose one needs to consider in context. My mom's was diagnosed schitso those years ago and it's still happening today with late or undiagnosed. Being 65 autism diagnosis was almost unheard of. She has never being diagnosed except for me noticing since I was also noticed late. The relevance here is 3 generations of autism in our family and slight medical background.
I suppose a proper form submission with detailed medical background is what should be submitted if we were to survey us and have one autistics who is doctor analyse this data.

Yes, my mom's is type 2 diabetes....she was overweight which is possibly what confused me as I'm skinny type. She wasn't very muscular which would fit in with certain research regarding building of muscle tone.
Many people speak of a more autism symptoms and it's all confusing because most autistics have other medical issues or overlapping diagnosis with another condition. My mom's is what woke me up to idea that female aspues who very loud and go off rails can have schitso as well.

This is not a conclusion, a diagnosis it is just merely a discussion regarding medical research. Any suggestions should be followed up with an expert as I'm not leading expert but simply sharing symptoms and experience with others.

 

[Kayla55]

I apologise for my communication gap, I get stuck in my head. I think above explains my mom's and relevance as perhaps due to my bad communication skills, people don't always understand what I'm trying to say. Often I'm conceptualising or comparing idea in my head and not fully explaining what I mean or my language is not very good, even as a female I had speech problems as a child. To this day I battle with Latin and find medical terms confusing. Lol

 

[Aspychata]

We aren't medical doctors here. There is one medical doctor who frequents this forum, but l haven't seen them for some time.

It's hard for us to give qualified posts. Your mother may need insulin at some point. My friend needs insulin even though dx as type 2. They lost weight, became more active, yet they now are on a insulin shot daily l believe because type 2 can change and require more help with insulin as one ages being that this is a dynamic type of disease.

However it's great that you are involved with your mother's outcome, and she is lucky to have a great daughter like you.

 

[Outdated]

A type 1 diabetic condition NEEDS insulin

My grandmother had type 1 diabetes, it started after she had her first child, my father. That was in 1941, back then there was only one source of insulin available. Liver. But you can't cook the liver because that destroys the insulin, so for the rest of her life she regularly ate raw liver.

By the time I came along she could have switched to insulin needles but by then she'd grown to like her liver. She got me to try it once, yuck!

 

[Owliet]

My grandmother had type 1 diabetes, it started after she had her first child, my father. That was in 1941, back then there was only one source of insulin available. Liver. But you can't cook the liver because that destroys the insulin, so for the rest of her life she regularly ate raw liver.

By the time I came along she could have switched to insulin needles but by then she'd grown to like her liver. She got me to try it once, yuck!

Eww. I can’t think of anything worse than eating raw liver. My grandfather was also type 1 (which makes me worried that it runs in the family…) and he was diagnosed with it in the 60s. Life expectancy was also pretty low with diabetes. For example, Tolkien’s mom died from type 1 diabetes and she was only 34 which was as old as expected for diabetes type 1 without treatment. Insulin wouldn’t be discovered until 20 year later. Medical things like this, I dont play around with — as much as my mom and I have problems, seeing her go into a hypoglycemic reaction with over 60 units, well she almost died.

 

[Kayla55]

Thanks, my parents were divorced. To this day I hate my father not just for hitting me over knuckles and invalidating my feelings but because he is dogmatic, my mother would never hit anyone....I am not schitso so I suppose that's how I figured out late aspirness.
Thiz is hard hitting, I love my mother but she was a bad mother and reason schitso should never get custody but did as my dad is brutal.
This is the idiot system that not only promotes sexist images into women but believes all women are baby makers, and rather confiscate your children than allow sterilisation for those who are sure motherhood is not for them. I'm sorry but I don't need. Man to tell me what is right for me. But my mom's is a wonderful person and that is what I love n why I forgave her for letting me down, wasn't her choice.

Diabetics are worse than smokers, it's addiction. Now if you know a diabetic you'd know how sneaky they are to get sugar for their coffee. Even going to neighbour lying about running out of this poison.
Perhaps this is a relapse or requires supervision later on as you say. May at times with age be a purely aggrivated medical issue!!

My mom's has the painful hands, she thought it was arthritis. I've got it in last 3 years, so I'm on high doses of vitamin, calcium, magnesium....the zinc is expensive. Helps. I probably would've thought I had altzeimers with my memory losses and saw hands but know better now.

Thanks to a genius friend otherwise I'd have just sat lost, not even realising my memory was going again.

I know this sucks, it's sad story. Most people do not want to hear this but it's all relevant.
No, schitso isn't necessarily a symptom of bad childhood, it can be combined with autism and is confusing.
Mine is avoidant detachment disorder from bad childhood and autism.

My mom's loves her new phone, she sits twitching her toes and is forever saying wrong things to wrong people, she believes she is too old and not keen on understanding her autism. I credit her with my knowledge of therapy and it was her believing she was treating her schitso.

May young aspies have more clarity than we did, what do I believe needs to change the most.....sexism. but world is changing in my mom's day still needed husband's permission to open bank account.
Being a sex object was challenge I faced, to this day I prefer living alone.

 

[Outdated]

Eww. I can’t think of anything worse than eating raw liver.

If your only other option is to curl up in a ball and die what would you do? You'd be surprised at what we can learn to cope with when we need to.

 

[Outdated]

Does anyone have helpful information regarding medical issues and medicine that could be accredited to combined community effort to assist with medical issues.

There's quite a wealth of medical information throughout the forums but it's mostly in different threads, different topics where the conversation has drifted to current issues, rather than all being collected in one place.

My Mum's family were country people living in the Murray riverlands. That was quite remote back then and doctors and hospitals were all very far away, so people practiced a lot of home medicine and were particularly careful to not get sick or injured in the first place.

I have one of those sick memories that remembers everything so if you want some old country remedies I'm happy to post what I've got.

 

[Owliet]

Diabetics are worse than smokers, it's addiction. Now if you know a diabetic you'd know how sneaky they are to get sugar for their coffee. Even going to neighbour lying about running out of this poison.
Perhaps this is a relapse or requires supervision later on as you say. May at times with age be a purely aggrivated medical issue!!

“Diabetics are worse than smokers, it’s addiction”. Seriously? You have zero understanding about the whole entirety of diabetes. TYPE 2 may be caused by excessive over eating BUT TYPE 1 is NOT the fault of the person who has it. It is really stupidly dangerous to make the assumption that there is only one type of diabetes. There are at least 2. ZWEI. People can die from type 1. They can lose their arms, legs if it’s not fully managed. Educated yourself properly on what diabetes is Before making ridiculous overarching statements that can potentially be damaging. And I am not apologizing for this.

 

[Kayla55]

Nor will I condone and apologise for factory farms and it's not just unhealthy eating it's about spiritual aspect of eating cruelty.
I am entitled to my opinion and have disclaimed it's not medical advice, it's my opinion.

This is autism forum not diabetes, read title and I told you already my communication problem, so I corrected it with background. This is diabetes 2 in relation to autism and not diabetes....do you get that yet???

Now I will say that diet affects autism because it does. When parents give children ice-cresm it's not cream and it's not healthy...it's a treat. It's not real dairy....long life milk isn't really suitable for toddlers either as it lacks what fresh milk has. Don't tell me this isn't relevant, when we finish anti-biotics we take real dairy to replace cultures and children living on processed cancer cereal and long life milk are not eating properly.
Adding hormones and over milking cows is not just disgustingly cruel but poses questions of health. Why? Because of what hormones do to body and exposure to infants. Australian research shows autism is related to stomach gut. Autistic people seem to have different bacteria to neuro-typicals. This is the relevance.

Type 2 diabetes in some cases (not all) is caused by obesity which is poor diet and correcting the diet can for some result in diabetes going away, but is not always case. So if this isn't one of those topics that you specialise in and you not up to scratch or lack artificial intelligence then pls pls pretty please do what your doctor or whatever said.

 

[Kayla55]

There's quite a wealth of medical information throughout the forums but it's mostly in different threads, different topics where the conversation has drifted to current issues, rather than all being collected in one place.

My Mum's family were country people living in the Murray riverlands. That was quite remote back then and doctors and hospitals were all very far away, so people practiced a lot of home medicine and were particularly careful to not get sick or injured in the first place.

I have one of those sick memories that remembers everything so if you want some old country remedies I'm happy to post what I've got.

Awesome. I hate nazzi experiments and aba and cruelty and would love to prove that we can improve lives.
It's my opinion at least

 

[MildredHubble]

If your only other option is to curl up in a ball and die what would you do? You'd be surprised at what we can learn to cope with when we need to.

The earliest Insulin was created by pureeing the pancreas of animals if I remember correctly. So the liver is not really all that far removed from the medicine! I think if I were in that situation, I would probably make a nice liver smoothie with lots of other things to disguise the liver. Of course assuming it wouldn't negate the effect of the liver! Though I guess after a while it would get tedious and I would just eat the liver and hold my nose!

 

[Rodafina]

If your only other option is to curl up in a ball and die what would you do? You'd be surprised at what we can learn to cope with when we need to.

About how much did she have to consume each day?

 

[Kayla55]

If you can read between lines or connect dots....then if I said I have low blood pressure ND my mum has diabetes what is medical connection. Why should be monitor blood pressure in autistic with medical problems? If you had any interesting insight such as why do some believe autism deaths are heart related then your opinion counts.



Then you understand this and stop parrot repeating what we already know of diabetes. Hence:artificial intelligence







Some speed read large amounts of data and group and sort by relevance, get it?











Though they may sound similar, they are vastly different. While blood sugar is a measurement of the levels of glucose in the body, blood pressure refers to the amount of blood the heart pumps and the resistance to it in the arteries. Extremities of both are considered to be metabolic disorders







Over time, diabetes damages the small blood vessels in your body, causing the walls of the blood vessels to stiffen. This increases pressure, which leads to high blood pressure.” The combination of high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes can greatly increase your risk of having a heart attack or stroke.