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Diabetes - Natural Remedies

Natural or Herbal Pain Treatment for Diabetic Nerve Damage

Alexis Sapheena asked:

My mother is 63 years old and has Congestive Heart Failure, Diabetes, Shingles, Gout, Edema, and Lung Disease. Over the past 14 months she has injured the bottom of her feet , the first injury occur ed when she stepped on an ice cube that was on the kitchen floor. She didn’t slip and she did not fall but the pain that was to come for the next 2 weeks was most excruciating and almost unbearable at times! She could not walk on either foot or bear any weight on them, it was really unbelievable the pain in both feet from so little trauma to the one foot!! About 8 days ago she stepped on a little bitty piece of macaroni on the kitchen floor and has been writhing in pain and unable to walk ever since!! She has been taking Ativan and Tramadol for the pain but its pretty much not doing anything. What I’m wondering is if there is any Herbal or natural products to help ease this type of pain?

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Diets for Diabetics

Is it ok that I only eat chicken and not any other meat?

Senator D*L*P™ asked:

When I was a freshmen, I decide to become an ovo-lacto vegetarian, but since then I was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. My doctors say that being diabetic can also affect your protein levels (?), and since I was a vegetarian, I already was working to keep my levels up. Since chicken has a lot of protein, I eat that once in a while. I **** to eat it, but it works better than soy when I am feeling sick. I try to stay healthy with the diabetes and vegetarian diet, but is ok for me to follow a vegetarian diet, but sometimes have to eat chicken? I refuse to eat red meat. I don’t go on rampages telling people they are evil for eating meat, I just prefer not to eat it. My friends call me a chickitarian, but can I still be an ovo-lacto vegetarian?

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Diets for Diabetics

What is the name of that shot that they give to diabetics, but is now also used to help with weight loss?

Brown_Eyed_Girl asked:

I am not talking about insulin…..It is a shot that originally was for diabetics….But then they discovered it could be used to help people lose weight as well. It is supposed to be much better for you than phentermine diet pills.