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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Joe Gutfeld on September 24, 2007, 04:54:09 PM
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How was everyone's fast? I can't fast anymore. My doctor told me I can't fast anymore on Yom Kipper because of a medical condition.
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Im sad to hear of you condition,but HaShem knows this, just double up a mitzvah,{ask a Rabbi first tho}.
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For the first time ever, I had a headache during the fast, and it only got worse when I broke the fast. I think it was a migraine, as it seemed to get worse in the light.
What condition do you have that you can no longer fast on Yom Kippur?
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Did you fast the full 25 hours?
Sure did.
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For the first time ever, I had a headache during the fast, and it only got worse when I broke the fast. I think it was a migraine, as it seemed to get worse in the light.
What condition do you have that you can no longer fast on Yom Kippur?
Sounds like you might have been dehydrated, I say this because you broke the fast and still had a headache, if you had a headache from low blood sugar, breaking the fast should have taken care of it, maybe you should have drank more. Educated opinion, my undergrad degree is in clinical nutrition. :)
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Thanks New Yorker! I think you're right.
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I think if you are advised by a Doctor to take medication and have to take food with it it is okay to break the fast.
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My mom never fasts. She says she has to take medicine so she eats with it. I don't know if that counts as being sick that you can take it for that. She says she's always sick. If I was in her situation, I just wouldn't take the medicine that day.
She used to never fast but when I started after Bar Mitzvah she started to but recently she said she's been sick. But she said she cooked the food so it is still violating Yom Tov and she drives to synagogue on Yom Kippur.
Yaacov, if your mother is truely sick and her doctor especailly recommends her to take the medicine to basically stay alive, it woudl be a grave sin to fast!