4 yrs.....wow!!!

May 16, 2011

June will be 4 yrs for me since I had my insides moved around.  No major problems just tring to maintain current weight and stay healthy.  Just had labs taken and I need to up my calcium, iron and vitamin D.  About 2 yrs ago when we moved to FL I started to have really bad heart palpatations.  Went to the Cardiologist and they did an extensive work up and found nothing wrong with my heart.  I went from having a resting heart rate of like 80 to 45 and no one could explain why.  I finally figured out that everytime I would eat I would have the palpatations and would throw PVC's like crazy for about an hour at a time.  So I started doing my own research and found a gastro dr here in Jacksonville that worked with gastric by-pass patients.  He decided to do an endoscopy and found that my opening to my intestines had stretched to twice the size it was suppose to be.  Finally an answer to why I was so freaking hungry ALL the time and why when I ate my heart freaked out.  My blood sugar would spike and than drop like a lead balloon.  Everything I was consuming was going straight to my intestines and than my body would produce all these hormones to fight off the food than in turn would make heart flip out.  So the gastro dr did a procedure called Sclerotherapy.  They went in through the endoscopy and injected this solution that causes scar tissue.  First time didn't take very well so 2 months later we did it again.  Since February I have finally lost the last 25 lbs and have managed to maintain.  The procedure it self was not painful since they knock ou out but for 2 days afterwards boy do you know that someone was in there messing around.  I am able to control my intake again and sugar levels have leveled out again.  Plus I don't feel like I am having a panic attack all the time.  I am still running and enjoying the fact that I can complete a race.  I have found who was my true friends through all this and which ones are extremely jealous of my success.  All in all.....I would do it again in a heart beat.  Here's the next 4 yrs...... :)

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