wild_cat, Congrats on getting published. Yes, writing is very cathartic. It's amazing how many people know and understand this prejudice and yet it's perpetuated in medicine anyway. Disgusting!

They don't really have good electrolyte tests available for purchase yet. And, ideally, it should be done when you are having symptoms. If you do it any other way than in a doctor's office, I can almost hear a doctor pooh-poohing it.

If you feel better after taking "glucose" out of your diet, could you have a glucose related muscular disorder or diabetes?

I'm glad you have a good doctor. Does it really matter what his colleagues have to say? Good grief, the doctors in the U.S. don't have a "pecking order" in place in clinics where they have to defer to their colleagues with more seniority! Maybe have a heart to heart with him after the new year.

Annie