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Lori,
Make that 3 measly pounds today Yay! 
As for chronic pain, if you'd asked me last year to "rate" my pain on that danged 1-10 scale, I'd have told you it was a 10+++++ ... it was that bad, totally distracting and miserable. Losing weight has improved that situation so much ... not that my back doesn't hurt most of the time, the pain is just so much lessened that it's a manageable thing now ... I can distract myself from it and have a life again ... some days I can almost ignore it altogether unless I move wrong and it reminds me acutely. That's why I've been uneasy that it's hurting more in the last two weeks. I have had one couse of low-grade steroids (Medrol Dose Pack) since my WLS and that was in December, 2005 (prescribed by PCP, ok'd by BS). I did ok with it, but it's certainly not something I want to depend upon on a steady basis like before surgery.
You're so right pain sucks big time. Hope you get some relief.
Myra
As for chronic pain, if you'd asked me last year to "rate" my pain on that danged 1-10 scale, I'd have told you it was a 10+++++ ... it was that bad, totally distracting and miserable. Losing weight has improved that situation so much ... not that my back doesn't hurt most of the time, the pain is just so much lessened that it's a manageable thing now ... I can distract myself from it and have a life again ... some days I can almost ignore it altogether unless I move wrong and it reminds me acutely. That's why I've been uneasy that it's hurting more in the last two weeks. I have had one couse of low-grade steroids (Medrol Dose Pack) since my WLS and that was in December, 2005 (prescribed by PCP, ok'd by BS). I did ok with it, but it's certainly not something I want to depend upon on a steady basis like before surgery.
You're so right pain sucks big time. Hope you get some relief.
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