I don't know. Have yet to look at alternatives. This caught me by surprise. Powders will not work for being out of the house. I usually travel with a few bottles for lunch at work and just incase things when I am out on the road for extended periods of time.
Costco seems to have Ensure; if you're not a member it might be worth it just for this. Free shipping with a $75 order. Walmart has Boost In an expensive pinch, look for the Naked Protein smoothies. 30g protein in a pint, and they're pretty tasty. That's about 1.5x the protein per ounce and I can tell you they will hold me for hours if I'm skiing and can't get to the lodge for actual lunch. Bolthouse does something similar, the coffee/mocha ones are what I usually go with. There are lower-protein ones that are more fruit/sugar that I keep around in the summer because they're more of a snack treat but there's still something there. Problem is they're not really shelf stable for long so you can't just toss them in your car for later.
Chocolate Boost is my preferred. Keeps me going and it also satisfies that chocolate thing. I don't keep them in my car, but I will bring them with me. I keep two bottles at each store I work in and bring two more every time I show up, rotating them. In case I run out the door and forget to toss them in my bag. I'm used to getting 24 bottle cases at Sam's Club for $27. Smaller lots are just too expensive. Walmart still has it but at a much higher price. The smaller sizes like 6 packs are going to dry up soon, too. They're $10 a pop for the moment.
Oh and about nuts and other crunchy things with dentures ? Nope, non starter. Takes a lot of pressure and placement to get them to break up in the first place and then the pieces are sharp and get underneath. There's a whole lot of things I'll just never eat again. Food has taken a different place in my life. Now it's more about making sure I eat something that can sustain me with as little hassle as possible. In this process I have become pretty much gluten free without trying. Being gluten free also helps in your ability to absorb nutrients through your stomach. Gluten interferes with absorption. It's more than about people with Celiac disease.
I don't know. Have yet to look at alternatives. This caught me by surprise.
Powders will not work for being out of the house. I usually travel with a few bottles for lunch at work and just incase things when I am out on the road for extended periods of time.
SFW has some good ideas about Costco.
Your PCP might be able to refer you to a good dietician who could find good alternatives to Ensure and Boost. Both have a lot of sugar IIRC. A dietician can help you determine how much protein you need (Americans obsess about protein) as well as carbs. The vitamins in Boost and Ensure can be found in fruits and vegetables.
Unsalted mixed nuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds are good snacks for protein if your teeth/dentures can handle them. Bananas are good but high in carbs if you need to watch carbs; apples and oranges are lower in carbs, All three are good for the road.
I don't know. Have yet to look at alternatives. This caught me by surprise.
Powders will not work for being out of the house. I usually travel with a few bottles for lunch at work and just incase things when I am out on the road for extended periods of time.
Costco seems to have Ensure; if you're not a member it might be worth it just for this. Free shipping with a $75 order.
Walmart has Boost
In an expensive pinch, look for the Naked Protein smoothies. 30g protein in a pint, and they're pretty tasty. That's about 1.5x the protein per ounce and I can tell you they will hold me for hours if I'm skiing and can't get to the lodge for actual lunch. Bolthouse does something similar, the coffee/mocha ones are what I usually go with. There are lower-protein ones that are more fruit/sugar that I keep around in the summer because they're more of a snack treat but there's still something there. Problem is they're not really shelf stable for long so you can't just toss them in your car for later.
Can you make your own less expensively with one of the various brands of protein powder and soy or almond milk or something?
I don't know. Have yet to look at alternatives. This caught me by surprise.
Powders will not work for being out of the house. I usually travel with a few bottles for lunch at work and just incase things when I am out on the road for extended periods of time.
So, is this just plant whey, dairy whey or both I wonder?
It's my whey, or the high whey.
Here is another little known thing about whey. Around here in Ohio, can't say about other places, they will spray a whey / brine mixture on the dry roads before a major snow storm arrives. It lowers the freezing temperature of water, as does salt, brine and sugar. It is also non corrosive and relatively benign to the environment.
So there are other uses for whey other than food that more than likely are contributing to demand increase / overall shortages of whey. Kinda like when corn production was diverted for making ethanol, it created shortages of corn as food and also drove corn prices higher.
A new shortage that appears linked to the baby formula shortage. Adult protein drinks such as Boost and Ensure. The same bases are apparently used for both, one of which is whey. There is an ongoing shortage of whey that goes back about 8 months ago and resulted in spot outages of these drinks. There was also a recall on a couple of brands then as well. Boost made by Nestle was not one of those, but Ensure was. Now they are out of stock nearly everywhere.
Not only used by ordinary consumers like me, but also heavily used in places like nursing homes. I've been using Boost ever since I had my teeth pulled and have actually developed a like for it. 2 to 3, 24 bottle cases per month. Now suddenly a major part of my diet has become unavailable. It is also good for emergency food with a shelf live of up to a year. No details or any resolutions for this shortage are to be found, so far.
Can you make your own less expensively with one of the various brands of protein powder and soy or almond milk or something?
A new shortage that appears linked to the baby formula shortage. Adult protein drinks such as Boost and Ensure. The same bases are apparently used for both, one of which is whey. There is an ongoing shortage of whey that goes back about 8 months ago and resulted in spot outages of these drinks. There was also a recall on a couple of brands then as well. Boost made by Nestle was not one of those, but Ensure was. Now they are out of stock nearly everywhere.
Not only used by ordinary consumers like me, but also heavily used in places like nursing homes. I've been using Boost ever since I had my teeth pulled and have actually developed a like for it. 2 to 3, 24 bottle cases per month. Now suddenly a major part of my diet has become unavailable. It is also good for emergency food with a shelf live of up to a year. No details or any resolutions for this shortage are to be found, so far.
So, is this just plant whey, dairy whey or both I wonder?
A new shortage that appears linked to the baby formula shortage. Adult protein drinks such as Boost and Ensure. The same bases are apparently used for both, one of which is whey. There is an ongoing shortage of whey that goes back about 8 months ago and resulted in spot outages of these drinks. There was also a recall on a couple of brands then as well. Boost made by Nestle was not one of those, but Ensure was. Now they are out of stock nearly everywhere.
Not only used by ordinary consumers like me, but also heavily used in places like nursing homes. I've been using Boost ever since I had my teeth pulled and have actually developed a like for it. 2 to 3, 24 bottle cases per month. Now suddenly a major part of my diet has become unavailable. It is also good for emergency food with a shelf live of up to a year. No details or any resolutions for this shortage are to be found, so far.
Nearly a decade ago, mini-brains shot onto the neuroscience scene with a hefty promise: understanding the developing brain and restoring injured brains.
Known as brain organoids, these tiny clumps of brain tissueâroughly the size of a lentilâlook nothing like the three-pound organ piloting our lives. Yet under the surface, they behave eerily similar to the brain of a human fetus. Their neurons spark with electrical activity. They readily integrate withâand subsequently controlâmuscles, at least in a dish. Similar to full-blown brains, they give birth to new neurons. Some even develop the six-layered structure of the human cortexâthe wrinkly, outermost layer of the brain that supports thought, reasoning, judgment, speech, and perhaps even consciousness.
Yet a critical question haunts neuroscientists: can these Frankenstein bits of brain tissue actually restore an injured brain?
JFW has had an ongoing issue related to a Fall 2020 work injury (kicked in the face by a child!) and after several visits with the surgeon, tests, MRIs etc., has just this week been cleared for C5 or C6 disc replacement surgery. The surgeon who she's been working with is based in Colorado and flies up a few times each month to our regional medical center here; as far as I know, there's no other surgeon in the area who does this. Aaand he just crashed his plane and died. Talk about being torn: obviously a tragedy, he didn't have to come to us—I'm sure he could have been just as busy made just as much money if he'd stayed put... but our immediate reaction has to be "how does this affect JFW?" because she's been living with this disability for a while, and the state worker's comp people are going to have the same questions. Oy.
gosh man. I do hope this can be resolved soon. What a turn of events...
JFW has had an ongoing issue related to a Fall 2020 work injury (kicked in the face by a child!) and after several visits with the surgeon, tests, MRIs etc., has just this week been cleared for C5 or C6 disc replacement surgery. The surgeon who she's been working with is based in Colorado and flies up a few times each month to our regional medical center here; as far as I know, there's no other surgeon in the area who does this. Aaand he just crashed his plane and died. Talk about being torn: obviously a tragedy, he didn't have to come to usâI'm sure he could have been just as busy made just as much money if he'd stayed put... but our immediate reaction has to be "how does this affect JFW?" because she's been living with this disability for a while, and the state worker's comp people are going to have the same questions. Oy.
Pardon the trip down memory lane. One thing led to another and it sorta just happened.
That's quite the memory lane there kurtster.
My understanding is that CBD will not provide any near-term pain relief but could contribute to improving chronic conditions over time. THC is required to distract from the pain.
My impression is that CBD can be effective for some conditions but is being over-sold as medicine in many quarters.
Same thing I thought in 1983, which I think is part of why I got admitted: when we look for ways to help patients we need to look at everything, don't we?
Absolutely, no disagreement there. From all appearances, cannabis is much better than most alternatives for sleep disorders, mild anxiety and relatively mild, chronic pain.
My personal observations of obese people, especially those with fibromyalgia, people with late-stage cancer and folks with nasty sciatic pain leads me to conclude that cannabis is simply not strong enough.
Let's see if I can share a personal anecdote without getting sued.....
The neighbour is a RMPC# of!ficer, he is currently grounded for health reasons and is unlikely to ever work in the field again. This work is tough. You wear all this heavy equipment and in many cases, you spend the day SITTING. Then you add in the murder of a colleague, the unique pleasure of having to cart severed limbs off a rail line, and not so long ago the lovely experience of a 300 lb. F-N woman who brakes your leg because there was no backup available for that particular call to a local bar..... sound stressful enough? Any of you want this job?
The poor man now suffers severe sciatic pain. It is easily observable in his gait and posture. Some of BC's finest and strongest bud is still not strong enough to distract from the pain. A mutual friend is still working on more concentrated forms of THC and I honestly hope it works.....
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To fully understand this case, it is important to know that the individual was not fond of exercising. He looked overweight and out of shape from the first time I met him. It is super important to regularly exercise with a job like this.
My opinion based on 55+ years of observations and having dealt with sciatica as mentioned below, cannabis is a distraction of the pain at best. Sciatica is too sharp of a pain, an issue for most pain meds, except say something like my favorite, dilaudid. Never met a pain it could not handle. Morphine and demoral for that matter do nothing for me for pain, just make me stupid, if I'm lucky or a headache if I'm not. It is not a fun kind of stupid either.
Sadly, but other than physical therapy which I went through to avoid certain movements so not to trigger it, Advil or ibuprofen probably would work best. About 20 years ago I slipped and fell on some ice in the parking lot at work and nailed my right hip hard. With many available choices and there were many, Advil was the only one that worked. I took 400 units every two hours for at least a month. The Rx dose for ibuprofen is 800 every 4. I did it every two hours to keep the serum level constant so there would be no pain issues in the third hour when it starts to drop and wear off and the first hour where it kicks in again. It did get to be mentally weird after about 2 weeks and thinking was affected and a strung out feeling began to become present. But it was the only thing that worked for me. Also extremely important is to constantly eat while doing this so your stomach does not get damaged by the all the NSAIDs.
Again, this is purely my experience. Not advice of any kind. Bear in mind that many pain meds work differently in men and women and then just by the individual. There is no one size fits all option. You cannot be stupid about this because you could kill yourself accidentally.
Cannabis is nice for general low level constant or chronic pain. I cannot speak to CBD oils, yet. Never tried it. We are about to try it on my 94 yo mother who is suffering terrible pain from rheumatoid arthritis. There was a once a month infusion that I forget the name of that did give her some relief but the supply has been diverted to CV19 use. A nurse has so far been able to get a dose for her awhile ago, but it looks iffy going forward. So we're going to try CBD. Got nothing to lose and everything to gain. The pain is bad enough that she did bring up buying a one way ticket to Oregon because it was getting that unbearable.
Oh and THC and cancer ... with all the chemo I went through, it was not something I enjoyed at the time. But each round of my chemo sessions lasted for 6 straight days at a time, nonstop the whole 6 days. Nothing was enjoyable. Not even food as I usually stopped eating by the third day and lived on IV fluids for the duration. I had what is called a dual port lumina that took two lines in at the same time instead of one. I would very often have 5 individual infusion pumps going at the same time daisy chained into the two lines in. I had two weeks off in between rounds and could have had some if I wanted to. Nope, I think I tried it once, but it just wasn't something enjoyable. I wanted nothing extra anything in me. I wanted everything and anything out of me instead. Then again most people do not have week long chemo sessions. Most are a 4 hour bag once or twice a week or once a month depending on a lot of variables.
THC does have value in long term cancer care where the patient loses their appetite because the chemo makes everything taste so nasty you have to get hungry enough to eat, period. The munchies will drive a stoned person to food.
Pardon the trip down memory lane. One thing led to another and it sorta just happened.
Same thing I thought in 1983, which I think is part of why I got admitted: when we look for ways to help patients we need to look at everything, don't we?
Absolutely, no disagreement there. From all appearances, cannabis is much better than most alternatives for sleep disorders, mild anxiety and relatively mild, chronic pain.
My personal observations of obese people, especially those with fibromyalgia, people with late-stage cancer and folks with nasty sciatic pain leads me to conclude that cannabis is simply not strong enough.
Let's see if I can share a personal anecdote without getting sued.....
The neighbour is a RMPC# of!ficer, he is currently grounded for health reasons and is unlikely to ever work in the field again. This work is tough. You wear all this heavy equipment and in many cases, you spend the day SITTING. Then you add in the murder of a colleague, the unique pleasure of having to cart severed limbs off a rail line, and not so long ago the lovely experience of a 300 lb. F-N woman who breaks your leg because there was no backup available for that particular call to a local bar..... sound stressful enough? Any of you want this job?
The poor man now suffers severe sciatic pain. It is easily observable in his gait and posture. Some of BC's finest and strongest bud is still not strong enough to distract from the pain. A mutual friend is still working on more concentrated forms of THC and I honestly hope it works.....
To fully understand this case, it is important to know that the individual was not fond of exercising. He looked overweight and out of shape from the first time I met him. It is super important to regularly exercise with a job like this.
As soft, relatively safe medicine for treating mild pain, clearly cannabis is wonderful. Thoughts Steely?
Same thing I thought in 1983, which I think is part of why I got admitted: when we look for ways to help patients we need to look at everything, don't we?
