What is your pain?

KNEES, KNEES, KNEES!!! All those years carrying around those 200 extra lbs did my knees in. Not ready to replace them. I've had enough surgeries and hospitalizations for a while. So I stretch, exercise and walk with a cane. And I offer the pain up and take Vicodin when it gets bad.

My lower back, knees and hips were beginning to start to hurt last year.  Now that I have lost only 27 pounds, they don't bother me much at all.  My left ankle was badly sprained years ago and some arthritis is in it and also my right wrist, but not enough to complain about.

I am just so thankful that I had this procedure before lasting damage was done and hope through continued weight loss and exercise to stay fairly painfree for some time.

Thanks for asking

Jeane  

The more weight you lose, the better you will feel but there are still those pains from the damage that we cause ourselves that can not be relieved. 

What is really so strange, is that I did not really comprehend how badly I was abusing my body before the surgery.

Yep, knees, knees, knees and I use the vicodin when I can not tolerate the pain.  There are times when I just feel like I'm beyond taking it.  Between my knees and back and shoulder and hips, so I vicodin up.  Makes it a little easier to bear.  I, too, am not ready to replace my knees.  I just cannot do it.  Plus, my doc said I'm still a little young.  54 is young?  LOL

It's young to me!  I will be 56 on Wednesday.

Jeane

Aloha my dear Jeannie.......I just read all the way through this and you are A BABY.....only 54??? My dear, I am 11 years older than you, and I feel like I'm 37!! I tell my 40 year old son he CAN'T be 40 because I'm only 37!!

I, too, keep a supply of hydrocodone to ease the pains that come from the damage done by weight carried for so many years. Strangely I got approved for my surgery because pain of broken leg badly healed was believed to be relieved with weight loss. Now I'm 165 lbs. less and would you believe I have pain in that same spot?? Doc said any time you have a bad break like that you are going to eventually have arthritis there. So, now I have odds and ends of pain in leg, shoulder, and now left hand. I am so totally happy otherwise with weight loss, and mobility, but I guess painful joints is a small price to pay for freedom in my body that is 100% better than it was 2.5 years ago.

Good topic......and it does help to hear how people are dealing with this ongoing challenge that we each face in one way or another.

Good luck with new semester....I don't envy you that particular challenge right now.

My challenge is going to be the next two weeks with my three grandkids in Calif........keeping up with them!! Wish me luck!

Aloha nui loa,

Maui Karen

Karen, I always love hearing from you.  All of us really heavy folks damaged our selves and sometimes beyond repair.  The good thing is that while we will never be completely pain free, we are pain manageable where as before, the pain was with every single step.  I marvel at how easy I zip in and out of stores and public toilets and...well, you know.  I had two my grands this weekend.  They are so precious and I know you are itching to get at those sweet baby kisses.  The baby girl of mine is just starting to talk clearly and everyonce in a while, she will jabber jabber and out will come a very clear word and we just eat it up.  Granddad loves that granddad was her first word.  She still hasnt mastered nana but she calls me mama.  I think because her mother calls me mama.  So, I may always be mama to her and she will have to live with me always calling her Baby. Hope you have a great time with the grands and lose as much weight with them as I do with mine--from all the running.