[QUOTE=lindalee]do house work for others Linda[/QUOTE]
Be careful what you use to clean with. There are chemicals in so many of the 'good' cleaners ... that you can get a lot of health damage just from: [b]2-butoxyethanol[/b] or one of its double versions. (Wear air tight eye goggles & rubber gloves)

[url=http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/helen.htm]I think my friend, Helen, lost her health and her life because of using some of these.[/url] 

I have a different view. I came down with type 2 diabetes sometime in this past decade, but don't know when for sure. In this past year I learned that my bad high cholesterol has skyrocketed ... and being on the overweight side has plagued me throughout my life (syndrolme X - belly fat)

It can be a birth defect from a parent overexposed to 2-butoxyethanol ... such as in my dad's case. He was on a Navy ship in WWII. [url=http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/thelma.htm]Brain tumors, such as Thelma had[/url] ... and [url=http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/diabetes.htm]diabetes[/url] can be birth defects. If so, the person(s) harmed in the family [url=http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/cfsclues.htm]would have these clues[/url]. I don't have the fatigue. I just have these other 'late-to-show up birth defects' Concern for an ovary 20 years ago, too.

When the harm of this chemical is realized (not yet recognized) - as I shared, [url=http://www.valdezlink.com/learn.htm#home]it's in many cleaning products & paint, etc[/url] there will be a whole new perspective on many ailments. [url=http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/newview.htm]I believe 2-butoxyethanol harm = CFIDS[/url]

I did the glucophage thing, but then stopped. It didn't make any sense to me to inhibit the liver from its proper function of turning the nutrition it gets into sugars. Just manipulating a change in the symptoms doesn't help the issue. I believe diabetes to be a secondary ailment to 2-butoxyethanol poisoning somewhere in the family line. If you have your own direct exposure it looks like the flu. 

Best help is good nutrition and [url=http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/finallylistened_.htm#sugars]glyconutrient food supplements[/url]. I'm focusing there. [url=http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/notyourfault.htm]Overweight? Also can be part of the picture[/url] Diabetes (both types) has an autoimmune aspect to it. Mostly we are talking about autoimmune metabolic issues. Even birth defects such as leukodystrophies and autism have an autoimmune aspect to them

Heart attack diagnosis may or may not be that. Even VP Dick Cheney has one of the fatigue symptoms, "Shortness of breath" unrelated to a heart ailment. I've shared with the White house, that there is another very prevalent cause of this ... question is ... is there enough of 'the pattern' to suspect this chemical is hiding out, 'doing its thing' [url=http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/mandy.htm#pattern]I recognize the pattern[/url]. That's all. (an example of 'recognizing' the pattern of something - but in another field)

May I have your permission, Linda, to put your reply into a web page ... with my answer here? It may help someone else. [url=http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/differentview.htm]This post[/url]