Bad Development: Sad realities of the post-month No-Carb/No-sugar diet

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J-S - 08 Aug 2004 00:23 GMT

Preface: went on a no-sugar/no-carb diet (where I started inserting carbs
showly). While achieved subst. weight loss, after 5 weeks got pains around
the right lower rib border.

Started eating SmartCarb multivitamin with Biotin (which is supposed to
break excessive protein & fat).
Started drinking mineral water that could stimulate the gall bladder
contractions.

2 days ago visited Urgent Care, was seen by 3 doctors, got blood & urine
tested - they said I was in perfect health and it's a shame that I bothered
them with all the collapsing people in the waiting line.

However, in dynamics (comparing tests before, 1 week into the diet & now) I
see that my total bilirubin levels are going steadily up from the first day
of the diet, alkaline phosphatase is going steadily down, BUN jumped down
and glucose made a jump up in the latest test.
Showed it in Urgent Care, they looked at me like "what is this guy talking
about".

In 10 days pain didn't go away. This morning my tongue was yellow, but skin
wasn't.

Yesterday, when I ate fried fish with beet salad and didn't take the
vitamin, got a vicious reaction - pain in various spots in the proximity of
right lower ribs echoing into belly, lot's of burbing. It calmed down a bit
after I drank couple of mugs of tea, ate some white cheese and took the
vitamin.

If that's an overproduction of bile that's causing this (medics excluded the
bladder stones), is there a way to alter the diet to balance it?
Should I try to stimulate the bladder contractions or instead eat stuff that
causes lower bile production?
Is there any effect in drinking St.-John's wort?

I'm really in panic, that I'm told that I'm so fine, and things are
deteriorating. Lack of medical insurance in the US also doesn't help (my
access to doctors is very limited for that reason).

Has anyone been going through anything like this while on the low-carb?

And lastly - how do can you possibly drink 2 liters of water? I drink a
couple of mugs of black tea - and I feel like it's way too much - and that's
barely 400g. Does this have to be plain water, or could it be mineral like
Perrier, hot tea or juice, for instance?

Sorry if this message is too long.

----- Original Message -----
From: "J-S" <nospam@nospam.com>
Newsgroups: alt.support.diet.low-carb
Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 1:53 PM
Subject: Sad realities of the post-month No-Carb/No-sugar diet

> Had been going on the no-sugar & no-carb diet for the past 6 weeks (I'm a
> 28yo man)
>
> Menu:
> fish, meat, chicken, eggs, vegetables (except carrots & potatoes),
> tea/coffee, sour cream, white cheeses, red bull.
>
> Results:
> * utter loss of energy
> * faint liver pain in the last 4 days, usually in the afternoon and late
> afternoon and after some meals (haven't established the dependency)
> * 20 lbs is gone, I became visibly thin, but fat belt still present around
> the waist & in the belly front
>
> So here go the questions:
>
> a) How do you ladies and gents sitting on a low- or no- carb diet balance
> your energy levels. What do you eat to be able to finction? Because I

barely

> can - don't want to exersize, have a drop in brain activity, have no

desire

> to do anything after work or go anywhere
>
> b) What might be that vague aching in the liver?
>
> c) Is it time to add sugar/carbs to the menu, and if so - then in what
> quantity and how to avoid the regeneration of the fat belt layers that

have

> been lost in the past month. So far the weight was only going down, which

> understand is due to lack of building material for fat, so it doesn't get
> recycled, just gets lost.
>
> Any opinions will be appreciated.