Prayer Request for Wife

[drgibson]

Well I'm still new here but I have a need to have as many who can petition God on behalf of my wife.

First off her health has been going down hill for a while. She has many food allergies and foods that are more of an intolerance. She has a degenerative tissue disorder that affects both bone and muscle. She has gone from 140lb to 116lb. And now she is going through testing to determine how bad the condition of her heart is in due to Coronary Ischemia. She is and has been for about two yeas a vegetarian, unfortunately this is about the time her health started failing. Please pray for her and for God’s direction.

 

[Sophia7]

I'll keep her in my prayers.

 

[woobadooba]

Well I'm still new here but I have a need to have as many who can petition God on behalf of my wife.

First off her health has been going down hill for a while. She has many food allergies and foods that are more of an intolerance. She has a degenerative tissue disorder that affects both bone and muscle. She has gone from 140lb to 116lb. And now she is going through testing to determine how bad the condition of her heart is in due to Coronary Ischemia. She is and has been for about two yeas a vegetarian, unfortunately this is about the time her health started failing. Please pray for her and for God’s direction.

I will pray for her. What you said about her being a vegetarian really concerns me, because you had said that she started to have these health problems when she became a vegetarian.

This tells me that she is not maintaining a balanced diet. She really ought to talk to a nutritionist about this.

Also, she may not be getting enough vitamin B-12. Have her increase her B-12 intake and see if that does anything to improve the situation.

Also, eggs are not evil. I realise that she wants to be a vegetarian, but egg whites are wonderful. You can even get them in a container. They taste great, and they are very healthy.

By the way, does she eat a lot of veggie-meats and fake cheese?

 

[Cliff2]

Well I'm still new here but I have a need to have as many who can petition God on behalf of my wife.

First off her health has been going down hill for a while. She has many food allergies and foods that are more of an intolerance. She has a degenerative tissue disorder that affects both bone and muscle. She has gone from 140lb to 116lb. And now she is going through testing to determine how bad the condition of her heart is in due to Coronary Ischemia. She is and has been for about two yeas a vegetarian, unfortunately this is about the time her health started failing. Please pray for her and for God’s direction.

You have already been asked about B12. I doubt if it will be an issue since your wife has only been a vegetarian for 2 years.

You have not said if she is also a Vegan, meaning no eggs, milk or animal products of any knid.

I still suggest that she has a full blood test to work out if B12 is OK or not. Also make sure she is tested for homocysteins while they test for everything else.

We will keep your wife in our prayers.

 

[drgibson]

She eats eggs, cottage cheese, regular cheese, sour cream, and mayonnaise. She is somewhat lactose intolerant. And is allergic to most citrus fruits.

When she was young and was a practicing Vegetarian she had this issue. the doctors (SDA) recommended that she keep some meat in her diet (I don't know why) When we first got married she tried it again but didn't follow through with it. She does take a good vitamin supplement and she does eat Veggie meat about half of her meals.

What is/are homocysteins?

 

[Sophia7]

She eats eggs, cottage cheese, regular cheese, sour cream, and mayonnaise. She is somewhat lactose intolerant. And is allergic to most citrus fruits.

When she was young and was a practicing Vegetarian she had this issue. the doctors (SDA) recommended that she keep some meat in her diet (I don't know why) When we first got married she tried it again but didn't follow through with it. She does take a good vitamin supplement and she does eat Veggie meat about half of her meals.

What is/are homocysteins?

If she is eating dairy products, then she probably doesn't have a B12 deficiency, but I guess it couldn't hurt to check or maybe to check for other nutritional deficiencies. Homecysteines are amino acids that are used by the body in cellular metabolism and in the manufacture of proteins. There is apparently a link between B12 deficiencies and elevated levels of homocysteines. High homocysteine concentrations in the blood put a person at increased risk of heart disease. Here is an article that I found that discusses the importance of B12 and the homocysteine link:
http://www.vegansociety.com/html/food/nutrition/b12/

Maybe her food allergies are contributing to her health problems. Perhaps her body isn't processing certain nutrients properly. I wonder if eating meat somehow helps with that in her situation.

 

[JJ2003]

Well I'm still new here but I have a need to have as many who can petition God on behalf of my wife.

First off her health has been going down hill for a while. She has many food allergies and foods that are more of an intolerance. She has a degenerative tissue disorder that affects both bone and muscle. She has gone from 140lb to 116lb. And now she is going through testing to determine how bad the condition of her heart is in due to Coronary Ischemia. She is and has been for about two yeas a vegetarian, unfortunately this is about the time her health started failing. Please pray for her and for God’s direction.

I am a SDA but not a doctor. This is just a suggestion.

My wife also had many health problems as we went to veg. Key is that her body will be struggling to rid off all the waste from a life of meat and rest.

First Pray with her together and ask God to step in and show what is making her sick.

Patience is one step, years of any abuse will come back in this life as God tries to rid the body of the poisons built up.

Secondly SDA's EGWhite says dress warm - long clothing top and bottom. Care of aircon which can cause problems.

Veg is one thing , but coffee is a v dang drug. Get your wife off coffee asap.

Dear Lord I pray that you can show these people your reasons and ways to health. Amen

John.
SDA

 

[Sophia7]

Regardless of the causes of her illness, we should all remember to pray for her, as drgibson requested.

 

[drgibson]

No caffine in her diet and we never had much meat in our diets anyway. THank you for your prayers.

 

[JJ2003]

My wife and I will pray for you and your wife.

Also this might help. We also had some major sickness and couldn't figure out why.

God is so pure he can not look at sin. So we must look at ourselves to see if we have any sin hanging around.

We cleared out alot of sin and got baptised in the SDA church.

Often we need to confess all our sins to God and look at what we have been doing , thinking and saying for any transgressions of the law (Moses 10 Commandments).

We each day do this no matter how small it is in prayer together. It clears the air with God.

God can not hear our prayers otherwise. .

Then it might help get to the real issue of sickness.

No matter what keep praying to God for 'why , why , why' ask him to show you and want the answer really badly. Once he sees the heart is pure then he will come and answer it.

But so often people ask God why ? yet knowing the bible and the words of jesus they fail to look at themselves in the mirror to see if it is simply sin blocking.

Illness is not easy. Job suffered simply as a test. God told Job not to question God in any way - that is how great God is in that he 'stores the hail'. (last three chapters).

Sometimes illness is to learn love and compassion for the sick from a heart that was busy, distracted.

Let us all pray for you and your wife.
Amen.

 

[JJ2003]

Just spotted more on your wifes diet. "She eats eggs, cottage cheese, regular cheese, sour cream, and mayonnaise. She is somewhat lactose intolerant. And is allergic to most citrus fruits"

That is alot of diary products - and high in fat. Sour cream is still 80% fat, Mayo also. Cheese is 90%.

My wife had the same diet. She got off all diary and when to juices of beetroot, celery, carrot.

Finally we found through prayer a God given receipe. Ginger.

Buy some ginger root , grate it up - about 1/2 cup and then put it in a clean tea pot. Add full of hot water. Drink two a day. This will clean out not just the liver but the 'Tap' being the bile duct under the liver. The ginger will heat up her blood (does she feel cold often in the feet?) and this breaks down the fat stored in the body and blood/veins etc.

Can start off with one pot a day then build up.

Ginger should fresh if you can get it - yellow/green - not the dried ginger. But try it.

My darling wife lost a lot of weight simply through these three things. No Dairy. Juices. Ginger.

But pray about it all.
May God bless you and your wife.
JJ.

 

[drgibson]

First off you're assuming she eats these things on a regular basis, she doesn't these are just what she still ingests occasionally. The problem is not that she needs to loose weight but that she has lost too much weight. The Dr.’s are concerned that she is getting malnourished.

 

[ttreg]

Does she have a nutritionist?

 

[BiggerAl]

drgibson,
I am left dumbfounded by JJ2003's response. First I want to hold up your spouse to God and offer a prayer that she will be fully restored. What sin did Job commit to deserve his condition? What sin did the blind man commit in John chapter 9? What was Jesus's response to His disciples question in Jn 9:3?

My prayers are with you,
Alan