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LolaDeeDaisy23
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Today has been a whirlwind. I'm sitting in the hospital room with my husband and father in law. My father in law was admitted at midnight last night because of a stroke. We're still waiting on the results of the MRI. But the CT scan and ultrasound of the heart and throat came back normal. They're calling it a TIA. And they gave us this sheet on how to lower your chances of another stroke and it explicitly states to eat a low cholesterol diet and my mind is just blown. These are recommendations from the hospital!!! From doctors!!!! Sick people go to these professionals for advice!!! Seeking help and the professionals are promoting a low fat low cholesterol diet, cooking with canola oil, I just can't believe it. I'm sitting here enraged. My in laws are obviously going to follow these recommendations because why would they listen to me? See the picture attached please.
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I'm sorry to hear. Hopefully all will turn out ok. It can be a lot of worry always fearing it will happen again and be worse-if he's ok from this one. Is he talking and such?1
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I hope your father in law recovers well.
Dominic D'Agostino has done a lot of research into brain injury recovery and a LCHF/ketogenic diet. He might have something that could help - if your inlaws are open to it.
Best wishes to him and your family.3 -
Hugs and prayers to you and your family. Interesting flyer.0
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The MRI came back normal. He is fine, he's able to talk fine and move around normally. The dr prescribed a low fat, low salt diet... even though his cholesterol is not high and his sodium is perfectly normal. I took a picture of his blood test.
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I'm going to sound controversial but all you can do, is sound out your husband's opinion (discuss it with him) and state your case with your in-laws, but also approach the responsible medical staff (providing the family is in agreement) and tell them their advice is horrendously wrong.
All you can do is pitch your point.
If your H. and the family are in agreement, that is.
Basically - he's not related to you. Only by marriage and as an in-law.
You personally have no 'standing' in this matter.
If he was a blood relative, or YOUR father, you might well have a much greater say, but at present, all you can do is state your case and see how it is received.
All the best to you.
Whatever happens, keep on keeping on....
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@LolaDeeDaisy23 - FYI, his B12 level also looks fairly low, and that (along with other B's) can related back to nerve and blood vessel health. (HUGS)
The rest of the results look similar to what I see every 6 months.1 -
Also, his cholesterol isn't high - I know the Dr. circled the LDL value, but the real killer is the VLDL value which is perfectly within the bounds that it should be.1
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I don't even have the right words ...
I'm sorry to hear this happened though. It's going to be stressful and worrisome for everyone and I just hope he finds his way to better health soon.
I don't have a link but I know there are articles and a study that show heart attack (and stroke?) are more highly correlated to low total cholesterol than they are to high. It certainly seems to fit his real life experience... maybe that knowledge would somehow open their minds.
It's so hard to feel like you want to help and feel so confident of what would be their best route to health but also know it won't be accepted. I'm sure it makes us some new like crazy "know-it-alls" and I can even understand why really. I find myself biting my tongue in so many situations because I know I'll just appear to be that way. Like who the heck am I but just someone that reads on the internets and a couple books...
It's a strange burden of sorts to feel like you know things that can be helpful but you hesitate to share them or if you do, you get "that look". You all know it. Especially if you can't really articulate the info very well...
I wish you luck in your efforts to be helpful and healing to your father in law.5 -
As if things aren't stressful enough for you right now ....
As it happens, my husband and I went yesterday to a one hour seminar on stroke prevention and stroke treatment. It was like trying to drink from a fire hose; the information was coming at us faster than we could take it all in. Your posting did, however, make me realize that in the course of the presentation the speaker did not say one word about avoiding fats, salt is bad, etc. etc. etc. In fact, he said very little about diet. He said quite a lot about the importance of being active and controlling weight.
I'm sure you were told that a TIA can be a precursor of a full blown stroke. It's a kind of early warning system. Hopefully your in-laws will be able to find a neurologist who is more up to date than the folks you've encountered thus far.
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