Update after procedure and Low oxalate diet
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I had my hysteroscopy yesterday. Doctor removed some endromertris "fluff" as she called it and thinks everything is okay. Of course I have to wait on the biopsy results but she's not worried. Doctor put me under to I wouldn't feel much pain due to the LS. However, because of the LS and everything is do tender there I was sore from the speculum used for the procedure. The doctor called me to f/u and told me use lidocaine before applying the halobetasol. Well it worked no pain.
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Morrell1951 Wil816
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Willie816 Morrell1951
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Good luck with your biannual appointment. Jeep me posted. Much luck!!!
Morrell1951 Wil816
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The controversy on this diet rages on the internet, expressed by one 'aspie' woman blogger – because, she admits, people on the autism spectrum teld to be like a dog with a bone (my simile) and keep trying something that hasn't worked, it's hard to sort out the science. She seems to be saying we should be absolutely sure we aren't sensitive to certain things first and eliminate them before trying the low oxalate diet.
When I was eating a vegetarian diet I read The China Study by T. Colin Campbell. In it he explains how after his work on various possible food-based causes of cancer the research was co-opted by a burgeoning supplement industry which missed the key point: "Nutrition represents the combined activities of countless food substances. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." For this reason I'm not inclined to try to subtract certain chemicals from my diet as if I had a firm foundation in science. (If you Google Campbell you'll see lots of Weston A. Price Foundation trolls trashing him. The meat industry sees him as its mortal enemy.)
Wil816 Morrell1951
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Morrell1951 Wil816
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• The original study linking oxalates to vulvodynia involved one woman. Initially this woman had abnormally high oxalate levels. After three months of following a low-oxalate diet and taking calcium citrate, she saw a reduction in her vulvar pain. After a year, she was pain-free, and she'd see a flare if she missed her calcium citrate. But again, that was one woman.
• A follow-up study involved 130 women with vulvar pain and 23 without. Of the women with vulvar pain, only 59 had elevated oxalate levels in their urine. These women followed low-oxalate diets and calcium citrate routines for three months, after which only 14 saw an improvement in their pain and only 6 were able to have pain-free sex. In other words, the data didn't favor a vulvodynia-oxalate causal link, though it indicated that some women's symptoms might improve with the diet.
Then down in the comments is Heidi who has the blog Low Oxalate Family saying she's wrong.
Bottom line for me is I have no pain during urination, so I suspect I'm not a candidate anyway. There's a woman on another thread whose doctor attended a big conference on LS. There's a device for peeing through so you don't get any on your flesh. If I had the problem, that's the solution I'd try first.