Thursday, November 8, 2012

No Spoonful of Sugar Here


Those with MS who have unsuccessfully gone down the mainstream medicine road and have turned the corner to find holistic medicine know all about supplements.  Television personality and alternative health advocate Montel Williams swears by a strict regimen of consuming energy-enhancing and rejuvenating foods and supplements.
My regimen consists of seventeen supplements including two prescription pills and one prescription injectable.  Even my prescriptions aren't "labeled" for use in multiple sclerosis.  Notice my large pill keeper marked "breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime."  But there's more to it than just swallowing my pills at the right time of day. 
I take my probiotics on an empty stomach.
Some supplements are fat soluble so need to be taken with a piece of buttered bread or buttered veggies. 
The heparin shots bruise my abdomen and have caused it to be tender.

If only a spoonful of sugar helped the medicine go down...in a most delightful way.




Did I mention I take several each of some of these pills?  My pills swallowed per day is 25!



                                                            Bruising on my abdomen.