DAY 17: BLOOD TESTS

March 26, 2022 Saturday

Fasting Update: Day 12 of 28. Dang it. I keep thinking like a feeding person. My nose has had more mucus than usual. I was thinking the air must be dry or I am reacting to something …. no, my body is detoxing and it uses every means to get toxins out of the body. I did not sleep well but woke up with little pain, unlike yesterday. However, that “headache” behind my eyes, that I attributed to too much screen time, has expanded to my sinuses. If this goes to my jaw and teeth that might be painful. So, again, the headache was about detoxing.

Daily fasting numbers: Weight-189.5 Weight lost during fast-20.5 Weight loss since adopting diet-49.1 BP-121/86 Heart rate-87 Oxygen level-97 Temperature-97.9 Glucose-79 Sleep-5 hrs, 1 minute pulse rate-75 and steady.

Doctor visit: Dr. Streutker says I am doing good. That my labs are mostly right in line with what he would expect for a fasting person. My liver is taking a hit as it is detoxing years worth of abuse from my diet. There are two tests he is watching closely.

• Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP). When the liver is damaged, ALP leaks into the blood stream. This is normal in fasting patients as the liver is working overtime. But mine is creeping up past what is normal in fasting patients. He is going to do a break down of this test as it is also found in the bones among other places. I have benign bone tumors scattered throughout my skeleton. Are they causing this number to go higher? He will take a look and keep watching. ALP numbers over 3 labs are 134 to 160 to 173. Normal range is 119-226.
• Creatine Kinases (CK). CK shows muscle break down. Now, I came with this issue. I started statins in 2006 and stopped them in 2013 of my own accord. I had had enough. I couldn’t get up the stairs without pain. Within a week that pain resolved and I could do stairs just fine. But I was left with a lot of muscle pain. This is where the CK comes in. It has always been elevated since 2013 when anyone bothered to test for it. Before, that my complaints were ignored. Dr. Streutker wants to get to the bottom of this. Is this autoimmune? NO ONE has ever wanted to figure it out. Maybe that is because all of my other issues were more pressing? So a 28 day water fast is the plan. He wants to see the CK go down. Way down. My body may yet be able to heal the statin damage. CK numbers over 3 labs are 395 to 292 to 397. Normal range is 32-812.

Today is Saturday and nothing much goes on at the Center. I will go and spend some time in the sun on a lounge chair near the fountain and rest. After about 20 minutes I will move to the shade and listen to an audio book and hopefully fall asleep. Then when I come back in I will watch more of the Chef Bravo cooking course. My laundry was washed and folded yesterday. Today, housekeeping came in a cleaned. I am a lady of leisure! Living in a Sanatorium.