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Date: | Thu, 15 May 1997 10:39:12 -0400 |
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My 15 year old daughter is on time release T3 medication in the Wilson's
Syndrome protocol. This requires taking her temperature during the day. She
has been at a steady dose for two weeks and mostly her temps have been in the
98 to 98.6 range. But she occasionally "crashes" and her temps drop by a
degree or more, the T3 becomes uneven, and she feels bad.
The two causes for this crash are 1) not eating fat with a meal (VERY big
difference) or 2)negative self talk, low self esteem issues. She has low
weight anyway, and has to force herself to eat more fat. She has diabetes
and has been bombarded with low fat diet messages for years by her endo and
everyone else. I think she may have a lipase deficiency which means that she
isn't digesting all the fat she eats. Kind of makes me wonder about this new
lipase inhibiting drug that may be approved soon. She needs to eat at least
40% fat WITH EACH MEAL to keep her temperatures up. Not that I am
recommending that for everyone, just noting it in case anyone else out there
might have this individual quirk. Of course I am a Zone Diet fan. Just
can't get her to eat any animals (like salmon, which she desperately needs.)
Stressful events at school don't bother her as much as the recounting of them
later to me, in which she is really saying something like "My social life
stinks. Therefore there is something wrong with me." She, of course, needs
to turn that into more positive self talk. Usually, actually, she does, but
when she doesn't, temperatures, watch out below! BL
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