BAD Advice

 Below is a reply from another ALSer to my husband's blog when he talked about getting terrible advice from the doctors on so many things.
I found it NOT surprising but still shocking that it matches EXACTLY what we were told and her solution is EXACTLY what we did as well.  We are both past our predicted death dates because we stopped listening to the doctors when they make no sense.

We did not communicate with each other until way past these situations.



That advice to eat whatever I wanted because to lose weight is a bad thing? The worst advice I ever received. I followed that advice and ate everything I ever loved -- all the salt and chocolate I ever desired. I got obese and I developed hypertension, thyroid problems and high cholesterol and tri-glycerides. Then I was told to tube-feed -- and the stuff I had to put in the tube had a mixture of different types of sugars and chemicals. Another mistake !! I am still told at clinic by the "nuritionist" to tube-feed because I am spending too much energy eating by mouth. Guess what!! I read everything I could about nutrition and dropped weight and was told not to drop any more weight. I dropped more weight and ignored what they said about tube feeding. I'm sorry but I didn't like being obese and having to wear clothing three or four sizes bigger. I still like to look good and don't want to have a stroke and diabetes. When I told the nutritionist that the tube feed was full of sugar, she said "why is that a problem?" and when I told her I didn't want diabetes, she said "If you get diabetes, we will deal with that. There are tube-feed formulas for diabetics." Totally ridiculous!!!