Diane J.
A Long Time Coming-Update
Jun 23, 2009
Hello my OH friends, yes it is me, the long unlost Diane and none other.Well to begin with my weight loss journey has been miraculously marvelous and I do mean that. I am about 20 pounds away from my personal goal weight. I have surpassed the goal weights of my dietician and am now working on my own. I have not been able to update and it hasn't been because I've been too busy, it's because I've been in too much pain and it's constant. It has nothing to do with my surgery, if anything thank God for the surgery because without it I would have continued, if I had lived this long, to have those good days and bad days and being severly stiff and hurting with no explanation at all except maybe the fact that I was morbidly obese and that was my problem. Now we know that's not the problem, I noticed that the more weight I lost the more I hurt and my PCP was worried, she did numerous labs and found my magnesium level low. I have been taking magnesium for that, she also did x-rays, a stress test and other labs. She found arthritis as we all knew I had. I have since then had to be sent to an orthopedic specialist and a rheumatologist. The orthopedic doctor found DJD in my hips and both knees mild, not too bad I also have several small spurs in both knees. But, here's the biggie, the rheumatologist says that unfortunately low magnesium wouldn't cause me to hurt this severely and he has prediagnosed me with fibromialgia, yes it hurts. So far all signs point to this nusciance of a syndorme. He is trying me on prednisone but that's to no avail, just as he suspected it would be. I have been hurting since February, I am tired all of the time, cranky and just plain old ill but I am so very thankful to GOD just to be able to wake up and even feel the pain that I do from day to day, so I'm not complaining just letting everyone know what's been going on with me. I still walk, although I have been slowed by the aches and pains and stiffness that occurs. I am in aquatherapy (water therapy) at least three times a week it feels so gooooood, I also take constant hot showers but the pain returns once the water is off. I am going to have to withdraw from school on medical leave until I can get some relief and get stabalized on some kind of medication, the good part is I can take up to 60 days a year with the additional option of getting another 30 days for a total of up to 90 days leave of absence.
On the happier side of life, things are sunny. I am under 180 pounds and can now wear a size 8. OMG!!!!
I have never been able to wear a size 8. I wore a size 11 shoe because, like the incredible hulk, my feet had outgrown the usual tight fitting 10 and now I can comfortably wear a 9 and 9 1/2. I find myself buying large and medium size tops. I am happy to say on the intimate side I can wear a 36 C and that's just fine with me because I have always been so HUGE, but now I can buy those cute little bras that grace many store isles and not have to buy something so big it has to be put in a box and stored away on a shelf and cost me an arm and a leg. I don't know too much about the panties I was tired of buying them every month but if I had to guess I would say a size 5 these 8's fit like boxing shorts. This was a scary experience at first because it was hard to accept that I am no longer a super morbidly obese individual and I didn't need those oversized clothes anymore. I'm tickled pink.
July 21st is my one year surgiversary and I can't believe it, it's been a year, time has really flown and a lot of people in our small town is simply amazed at the job GOD has done at making me a role model for this surgical procedure, even me. I do have one problem like most of us, I have the hanging excess belly skin and fat since I had a massively oversized midriff that now looks more like a set of saggy boobs. I sweat there a lot and I get irritated, sometimes I can't stand to even have clothes on my waist but I make do with it,although it is especially bothersome while walking (exercising). I could only imagine what it would feel like to walk and not start a fire in the world but now I know because my legs don't touch anywhere. My medical problems are on the back seat and my blood pressure stays in control pretty good. I am no longer taking medicine for that yessss.
As a final note I will take and post a recent photo at the end of this month for my new avatar so that you all can see the wonderful progress. I am not thrilled with the extra attention that I seem to be getting. It's the biggest turnoff since seeing my mother cook pig feet and eat them. YUCK!
nauseating. I say this because if these same people couldn't accept me and give me attention when I weighed about 400 pounds why would they want to be attentive now?! So yes, I doll myself up and wear heels and cute little carpis whenever I want to or rather whenever my feet and legs feel like it and I enlighten the world to the butterfly that has emerged out of the cocoon that I was inside for so many years.I will go for now I have been sitting here and my back is hurting as well as my wrists and my fingers will be stiffening soon.
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About Me
shelbyville, TN
Location
25.7
BMI
Surgery
07/21/2008
Surgery Date
Dec 22, 2006
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