Hi Don, and other health experts.

Before I jump onto today’s topic, I would like to go back to some post I did end of last year, or early this year) regarding the client I took on. Believe I called him John.

T0 re-cap; John came to me with schizophrenia, type II insulin-dependent diabetes, heavy smoker with severe emphysema, obesity, back and joint pain, migraine headaches, and a few other health issues.

Due to the schizophrenia, (and in my opinion much contributed by the psychotic drugs, “Clopixol Acuphase / zuclopenthixol “, injected fortnightly) John believed that he was in perfect health. Any pain or “un-comfort for John was simply “The body telling me it’s time for a pill. (At one stage, I kept track and checked his consumption, it was towards hundred paracetamol tablets in a week.)

John’s comments was; “the medication make me healthy so I have no problem at all”.

Challenge number one;
Convincing John that he wasn’t healthy, that he needed help, and he needed to start taking care of his body - or prepare for packing up and leave. (I was a little bit softer when I spoke to John.

Challenge number two;
Getting the doctors to do something productive, or finding a doctor that was willing to do anything other than prescribing drugs. Including different paracetamol tablets, whereof each package clearly stated do not take in combination with other paracetamol tablets.

Moving on - and attempting to keep this short;
John was with me for about 14 months, I managed to communicate something to him, and also improve his health;

Reducing sugar consumption. (Was on 1kg / w when he came, and no direct suger when he left.)
Reducing smoking.
He lost about 15 kg in weight.
Great reduction in pain, and therefore paracetamol consumption.
Taking down the Clopixol injections from fortnightly to free week intervals.
(Was due to take it to four-week intervals in end of August.)
Balancing blood glucose to a quite steady 4 and 6.
Reducing insulin dependence, and John should be free from his insulin injections by September this year.

And this was all done by managing John’s food intake, I didn’t go full-out vegetarian, sorry Don, but I probably was on 80% plus vegetables, whereof a lot of them raw.

And after that John concludes that he can manage himself, he doesn’t need any help or any carer so he decides to move from the Gold Coast to Newcastle.

That’s life I guess, 14 months interesting and educational journey, so I wish John all the best with his new independence - and self-management.


This was just end of the story I started - and might have left somebody wandering.
 

To the best in HEALTH!

OllePer