Hello
@Poppet
Thanks for your links. re nutrition. I am really conscious of what i need to eat and following a specific way of eating (with minor allowable lapses!).
Being different
I always feel that my body and its reactions are different from most other people. Examples of this:
Myself and 3 close female relatives react really strongly to alcohol i.e. would feel drunk or collapse after one glass of wine! We do not have the enzyme that breaks down ALDH which is in alcohol.
I react to supermarket plastic carrier bags - get nettle type rash on my palms if I carry them.
Reactions to gluten, penicillin, cats hair, some dogs hair, diesel fumes, some fish( level of uric acid?) , some mushrooms ....
Reacting to stitches/knots
When I read that it is an enzyme in our blood that breaks down soluble stitches, I immediately wondered whether my stitches were going to dissolve.
Stitches
My tiny, stitches started working their way out of my body. The whole incision was good and healing well for about 2 weeks. Then it looked inflamed but having read the articles was not too concerned. Then week 3-4 looking infected with pus - became paranoid about infected hip. One week of antibiotics. First stitch came out about 0.1 - 0.2cm long. Josephine reassured me - looks like superficial infection . Got used to stitches coming out gradually over several weeks about 8-10 have come out. They are like a filament that used to be in light bulbs. It appears, as a lay person, that there is inflammation, local infection then stitch comes out. This process is continuing (now week 7 post op). Having got used to it I am no longer so alarmed.
Knot
A few days ago when I gently rubbed my scar looking at what i thought was a lot of dried skin, I found a skin coloured knot as in the photograph- SIZE about 0.4 cm from the bottom end of the incision. Having got over the shock, having posted on Bonesmart, relaxed knowing OS appt was soon so will discuss it then. Unfortunely that appt has been changed by him to a week later. Now OS appt in 10 days time.
Diet
I am eating my usual diet of high protein for breakfast dairy, nuts and non gluten cereal, veg soups or salads plus protein at lunch, multi green veg for evening meal. I take supplements of:
Vit C and zinc,
Multi Vit and Min (includes magnesium)
Multi Amino
Curcumin for inflammation
Last night my incision was itching so much I took an antihistamine to calm it down as I was worried that I would scratch it in my sleep and this always works.
I have never found a physician or medic that accepts or understands that my body is different than the norm hence I try to look after myself. This now feels like information overload. I am trying to ride this storm whilst supporting my body in doing what it has to do! Hope this makes sense.
Karen
United Kingdom
Thanks!!!
