Well I got sick this morning. I think
it was from taking a vitamin right when I woke up, on an empty stomach. So that was fun. Now I know better. I got the
one a day energy, maybe it will help me get up and get moving. I also got fiber
pills. I thought that it would be good to take one with each meal, but then I read
not to take fiber more than 7 day. So I looked it up online, and found zip. I use
a site that lets you ask questions and people can find out the answer for you,
like doctors and people that know from doing it. So I ask if it was ok to take
a fiber pill with each meal for longer that 7 days. It got closed because one of
the people in charge thought it was a stupid question. I am a little pissed.
This is my problem with not getting
an answer because someone thinks what I’m asking is stupid. I did not grow up
in a healthy home, so there are a lot of things I don’t know. I didn’t eat a
salad until I was 20-years-old, and I loved it, but that night I got sick and
it all came back up. My body didn’t know what to do with it. Canned green beans
were my veggie growing up. We had plane burgers, plane pizza, plane food. I ate
green beans from time to time, and that was it. When I left my mom’s home and
started to eat at my boyfriend’s family’s house, I got made fun of because I did
eat veggies. I had never met a vegetarian before, never known someone to eat
just a salad as a meal. I grow up thinking you lived on meat and potatoes, and if
you didn’t get that you would starve to death. I’m not kidding. My dad loved getting
young us kids to believe all kinds of lies because he thought it was fun to fool
someone. But he never told us the truth, we learned the hard way.
In 2nd grade I cried in class
when someone marked my arm with a permanent marker because my dad told me that
was how you got tattoos, the permanent meant it would never come off. I cried,
and everyone made a ring around me while the teacher laughed at me and told me
the truth. When I got home I cried again when I told my dad about it and he
laughed at me too. Looking back, most of the thing he told me we lies. I watched
him with my little girl, telling her that god was an alien child and we were
its toys so if she made god mad it would brake her and throw her away. I set
him straight right there, he would never ever lie to my little girl, or me,
ever again. And I have not talked to him much since then, he doesn’t
understand. He thinks he was in the right. “If you were stupid enough to
believe it than that’s your fault!” he told me. He had no business having kids,
ever.
Ya, I’ve got some problems. No, I don’t
know a lot that I should. Yes, that does make life harder than it needs to be. Yes,
a lot of the time when I go seeking truth about something that other people learn as a kid, I get
made fun of. My husband is one of the few people that truly understands and
loves me for looking for truths that others take for granted. He has met my
family and knows what I came from, and respects the fight I’ve had to stop
being like them. So no, I don’t know the rules about fiber, and yes I’m taking
it because I’m still learning how to eat and like veggies and salads.
Example: You may think it’s stupid to not
know what an artichoke is or how to eat one, that’s fine. I however will
never forget my first artichoke, and learning how to cook one and eat it was a great time for me and the friend that took half a day to show me how. He showed
me the photos of it growing, the flowers they can be come. He shared his favorite way of
boiling it in water with dill pickle spices, mixing mayo with garlic, seasoning
salt, and lemon to dip it in. Then we sat down and he showed me how to dip it
and scrape the leaves along my teeth to get the “meat” and not eat the hard
leave. We looked up other ways to cook them, and what spices go good with them,
different dips and garnishes, and we had a great time. Now I can make a killer
artichoke, and I’ve have had the joy of doing the same thing with some of my
family.
I know a lot more now that just
5 years ago, and I’m still learning. But when I ask something and get told that
if I don’t know by now then I must be too stupid to learn, you damn right I get
a little pissed. I understand that I should know, but if I don’t, how the hell do I ever
learn? I read all kinds of questions online that are posted by people asking things
because they think it’s funny to be stupid. I’m not one of them, and if you don’t
know that’s fine. When I find out I’d be glad to share. But if you know
something, what’s wrong with answering? How does it hurt you? If it's so common
then it’s not like it’s a secret that you’ll get into trouble for telling me.
Is there something in or about fiber
therapy pills that make it bad to take one 3 times a day, long term? Yes, I know
its better to eat veggies and salads and fruit. I am working that into my diet,
and when I am getting it on a daily base than I will stop. But until then, will the fiber pills be bad? I know getting fiber is good, and it will help me feel
full at meals. I know what it does in my gut, and that some people take it to
poop. Whatever, that’s great, you can skip that part if that’s why you don’t
want to talk about it. I understand poop is taboo and you don’t talk about it, and fiber is linked with poop for some people. That
fine, I want to know at what point fiber becomes not safe and why? If I take it with my vitamin or other medicine
will it change how they work?
Ok, I feel better. Sorry, I think I
just needed to speak my peace. I’m totally ok now. So now I can write what I wanted
to in the first place.
Lets help make this a thing http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6160/health
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