Doing great!!

Jul 29, 2011

I had a follow up appointment with my PCP today.  She is really a great doctor.  She was just in awe over my weight loss and kept saying how happy she was for me.  She wouldn't stop staring.  I know the weight loss is very noticeable in my face and neck.  My weight is now down to 291lbs.  I have lost 84lbs so far.  She is lowering my dose on my blood pressure medicine to half a pill of metoprolol 25mg and then I have to go back in 2 weeks for a nurse to check my bp and if it is normal she is going to take me off the bp med.

I just got done with my second period since having the surgery.  I got it 39 days after my first period post op.  This one was shorter and luckily wasn't quite so heavy.  It was really heavy during the first few days and the cramps were god awful!!  But it got better after the first 2-3 days.  It lasted for 7 days this time instead of the 14 days like the first one did.  So I am grateful that things seem to be regulating themselves.  I passed a lot of huge clots this last period like I did with the first period.  My PCP said that is probably because of how many years of lining I have built up in my uterus.  I have been charting my period and symptoms on a ap on my android phone.  She told me to continue with that so that we can see if I establish a pattern.

She ran a bunch of blood work it will probably be a week before I hear back.  She was going to run my Vitamin D levels, B12 levels and recheck my iron/anemia.  I will most likely have to go back on a iron pill once she gets the results back.  I was anemic prior to surgery.

I did get a little bit of good news.  She retested my oxygen levels and she said that when I am not active or sleeping that I don't have to wear my oxygen anymore.  That was awesome news!  I see the pulmonologist in September so I hope by then maybe I will be improved enough to go off the oxygen.  I'm sure she will want me to have another sleep study done to check my sleep apnea.

My husband had his weight check with our bariatric surgeon yesterday.  I am a little envious he does not have to do a pre-surgery liquid protein diet.  He has lost more then the doctor was requiring him to.  So he just has to do full liquids the day before surgery.  Lucky duck!

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