{"id":4097,"date":"2016-04-07T19:08:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T19:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2016-04-07T19:08:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T19:08:37","slug":"health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/04\/07\/health\/","title":{"rendered":"Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saw the gastroenterologist yesterday.\u00a0 Told me blood is most likely related to the constipation and the constipation is most likely related to antibiotic carpet bombed gut bacteria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to undergo a colonoscopy just to make sure there isn&#8217;t anything bad growing there and to check for polyps and the like since I&#8217;m 57 and haven&#8217;t had one.\u00a0 Not looking forward to it, especially the preparation for it where I have to drink literally a gallon of laxative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They tell me it takes 6-9 months for gut bacteria to re-establish itself.\u00a0 In the meantime it&#8217;s Miralax and probiotics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As my body is getting used to metFormin, I am feeling better.\u00a0 At first I had zero energy and a lot of pain but now pain is diminishing and energy is improving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today I go in to have electrodes stabbed into my nerves and electricity sent to see exactly how much pain they can induce.\u00a0 Seems like something dreamed up in a Nazi interrogation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saw the gastroenterologist yesterday.\u00a0 Told me blood is most likely related to the constipation and the constipation is most likely related to antibiotic carpet bombed gut bacteria. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to undergo a colonoscopy just to make sure there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/04\/07\/health\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}