Primarily for the "gut" issues, but I will also be having shoulder surgery probably before summer, and, like your doc, mine would like for me to significantly reduce the coffee consumption.
If I have to reduce coffee consumption, I’m probably going to end up in divorce court, because I’m going to be hard to live with.
FIFY!!
No, I’m a delight to be around, and since none of y’all know my wife, you can’t prove any different.
Well, good luck on both issues. As of yesterday morning, I've not had any coffee. When we got up yesterday and knowing that they would be doing blood work at my 10:30 appointment, I elected to not drink any coffee as well as not eat any breakfast. So, with a little over a full 24 hours, I've not experienced any headaches, so maybe I have this taken care of. Time will tell.
Physical therapy is expensive. I paid more for the physical therapy than I did for the knee replacement,
My wife has had both her knees done (2 years apart), and we found that which physical therapist you use makes a huge difference in the recovery process. All her physical therapy was done through home health, and with the first one, she got an older lady that wouldn’t “push” her physically to improve. Her recovery ended up being painful and slow. The second time she got a middle age man that made the therapy fun, and my wife ended up pushing herself and thus getting range of motion and strength back faster.
I hope to help with the "pushing." With both knees being done at the same time, I want to get back on my feet and being mobile as soon as possible. While doing the exercises, with most of them one does the exercise on each leg for 10 seconds and for 10 repetitions. Throughout most of the exercises I've done, I tend to count the "one-thousand, two-thousand" at a slower pace, thus making each 10 second period to be longer than 10. I also tend to do an extra repetition or two for each exercise. I'll be doing that for the recovery period as well.
I was having gut issues, even showing some blood in a test. The VA put me through a battery of tests to show it was in the lower intestine that was "irritated".
There was talk of some injection that I had to do myself, so looked up the drug they recommended which is all over the TV now.
Three times it said death may occur in different explanations of side effects. Nope, not for me.
Started eating Activia yogurt with probiotics every morning along with a banana and a small handful of tree nuts while still drinking a 20 oz mug of very strong coffee every morning.
All the effects of the irritated intestine went away. It wasn't overnight, took a few weeks to notice an improvement and 6 months later, zero issue. Had two tests during follow ups since then which was over a year ago and the DR released me. No diet change, no coffee change, nothing.
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