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Off out soon to pick up more meal replacement shakes to continue my 800cals diet for quick weight loss.
Its tough but I'm committed so can only afford 2 boxes til Wednesday today.
Luckily I've plenty of milk in as kids want milk too; since their mammy is drink plenty of it. Humf!
Very sweet milk shakes so no yearning for anything sweet but of course not great as low carb. Dapagliflozin is keeping my 10s at bay. So in theory I should be losing weight. I don't feel it but scales did say 134.60kg on Friday. Just need 133.00 or less longterm.
This insulin has ruined my skin with all the weight changes. So op's effect will be a walk in the park.
I have some pensions maturing to pay for skin reduction surgery. When the time is right.

I was fed up when I saw endo but he has assured me I will hugely benefit from my op.
I just need a few rebounding pounds off then a date. :)
Hope everyone is having a good weekend?
 
Yet again Ron's had to cancel his appointment at Derby , this time due to tightness in his chest .
 
I was soooo hungry yesterday I ate white bread. No adverse effects so far but back to strict 800cals not 1200. I assume 2 slices would be approx 400cals. I'll try and pull out bread wrapping to confirm as I may have to declare to dietician. :(
The sugar in the shakes are making me hungry. :(
 
The best tool I've found whilst out if took out for lunch is my bottle of sugar free juice to add to boring water. I fill up on it first so don't want much. May be offered lunch today so I'm ready. A side dish of mushrooms and salad will be OK too. I love mushrooms. Most salads come with onion too which is a great liver detox ant. Especially red onion. ;)
 
i'm very well, @ickihun, my dear friend. i had an x-ray on my left thigh and left femur as it's been very painful recently and also feels very tired and weak.
 
ickihun said:
When will you know its results? No one has kicked you, have they?
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i haven't been kicked or assaulted, @ickihun, my friend. it's like a tender, niggly sore feeling in my thigh that radiates down to my calf muscle. i get the results in 2 weeks time.
 
JohnnyBaker87 said:
i haven't been kicked or assaulted, @ickihun, my friend. it's like a tender, niggly sore feeling in my thigh that radiates down to my calf muscle. i get the results in 2 weeks time.
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I'm just checking hun. I won't accept you being hurt.
I'm thinking of your pain.
Maybe you are coming out in sympathy with my back, pelvis and leg pain?
 
ickihun said:
I'm just checking hun. I won't accept you being hurt.
I'm thinking of your pain.
Maybe you are coming out in sympathy with my back, pelvis and leg pain?
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i do think about you with all your excruciating pains and ailments, @ickihun, my dear, loving friend, as well as your little autistic lad. i know what it's like to be on the autistic spectrum, what with hypersensitivity to pain thresholds and over-susceptibility to stress. the lady gp last monday thinks my physical symptoms are stress-related and she wants to rule out any serious physical health ailments. i think she knows a lot of my symptoms are part of the aftershock of max's abuse.
 
JohnnyBaker87 said:
i do think about you with all your excruciating pains and ailments, @ickihun, my dear, loving friend, as well as your little autistic lad. i know what it's like to be on the autistic spectrum, what with hypersensitivity to pain thresholds and over-susceptibility to stress. the lady gp last monday thinks my physical symptoms are stress-related and she wants to rule out any serious physical health ailments. i think she knows a lot of my symptoms are part of the aftershock of max's abuse.
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Its bests to be thorough so I'm pleased your gp is a good one.
Yes little man gets hysterical at any knock and his poor older brother takes the brunt if unexplained. They play alot thankfully but I'm just learning about just how over-sensitive he is. He moans loudly, not in keeping with normal loudness but he's due to have his hearing assessed as he fails hearing tests. :( He's so beautiful, especially when he smiles and doesn't...... moan. Ha ha
He's intelligent and quick. Very very active. I'm hoping he does ever have diabetes problems.
Older boy was tested just to see as his size adult 11shoe at 11yrs old show excessive growth hormones but he came back with vitd3 deficient only. We walked alot to get to his appointment and he was aware diabetes was being tested for so didn't have sweets for a while first.
 
Have a relaxed day today @JohnnyBaker87. My MSK appointment has been cancelled. I'm relieved as he want me without stick/crutch on an incline. I use it to leveate myself upwards and stop me falling over with weakness and dizzier times which can come on at anytime. I haven't felt strong and without unsteadiness for a few yrs now.
This 800cals makes me cold and vunerable. Hungry until I eat more than veg or shakes. Argh!!!
 
Brilliant day today. Ron went out on his new power chair . We took the bus into town. So much easier to manoeuvre. No more pushing up hills which use to put a strain on my back. We still have the manual chair but Ron sold the mobility scooter as he found it to rough a ride. I’m now hands free lol.
 
tina_marie said:
Brilliant day today. Ron went out on his new power chair . We took the bus into town. So much easier to manoeuvre. No more pushing up hills which use to put a strain on my back. We still have the manual chair but Ron sold the mobility scooter as he found it to rough a ride. I’m now hands free lol.
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Brilliant news! :)
 
Well I was 1lb short of my target for op but I'm at least loosing. Which I wasn't before I saw endo.
I was in limbo.
But for once good timing to satisfy surgeon.

So now I only eat veg and 3 milk shakes daily. With black coffee, water, dilute sugar free juice and now told I can have fizzy drinks, if it helps fill me up. Multivitamins with minerals + iron. Vit D3. Levothyroxine, mebeverine, bisoprolol, perindopril, pregabalin, lansoprozol and painkillers (dihydrocodeine with paracetamol).
Less insulin units. :)
 
ickihun said:
Well I was 1lb short of my target for op but I'm at least loosing. Which I wasn't before I saw endo.
I was in limbo.
But for once good timing to satisfy surgeon.

So now I only eat veg and 3 milk shakes daily. With black coffee, water, dilute sugar free juice and now told I can have fizzy drinks, if it helps fill me up. Multivitamins with minerals + iron. Vit D3. Levothyroxine, mebeverine, bisoprolol, perindopril, pregabalin, lansoprozol and painkillers (dihydrocodeine with paracetamol).
Less insulin units. :)
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ive just read a lot of your inter action with j b 87...with all the things that .have gone on and ongoing in your life ... what a caring person you are... my son has dealings with vunrable adults in his work .. i believe the people who take advantage are called cuckoos x
 
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Dietician said its OK to do more veg to fill me up so my hunter gathering will be a bag of carrots today. Fresh ones, of course. Oh and pepsi max or diet lemonade so on Friday I may pick some up but you know I can do without fizzes so I might just carry it on without. Maybe if in a social setting I'll have one. No alcohol since my grandmother's death nearly 3yrs ago. Before then it was before aiming to get pregnant so I won't be dashing for the alcohol anytime soon.

Up early due to back, pelvis and scatica pains. Awaiting for painkillers to kick in. Hoping to fit more in before doing school run. Mr ickihun has suspected throat infection. He's on 4hrly paracetamol and ibuprofen. I have to leave much much earlier if I take him. I'll try and boost his tablets just in time. Fingers crossed.
I wish walking and pain wasn't such a problem. What am I going to do if this is permanent?
 
I'm convinced I have the starts of a form of axial spondyloarthritis my pelvis/back.

Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a chronic inflammatory disease predominantly affecting the axial skeleton (sacroiliac joints and spine). Nonradiographic axSpA (axSpA without radiographic sacroiliitis).

This form has been known to not show up in the CRP blood tests as inflammation until far into its advance.

My mum has Ankylosing Spondylitis so I'm close to it's associated genes.
I'm really hoping I'm wrong and nhs suspicions of just weight bearing pain is more accurate.
I will pick my MSK brains on my next appointment.
I always test as low inflammation but constant low inflammation. Diet may be the cause. I've tried to eat well over the years. I know one thing nothing changes when I lose stones of weight. So I'm not convinced weight bearing and fibromyalgia pain. Although treatment wouldnt be much different to pain relief and physio that I'm getting now.
I really cannot receive a death sentence of such a painful disease. It may break me. I think nhs know that.
It would be ideal my weight loss op for the future immobility thou. So all thinking ahead, I guess.

I really really hope I'm wrong like I was about my gallbladder/stones. Fingers crossed.

Those in the know are positive I will reap great rewards from my bariatric op (diabetes wise). Which is a huge bonus.
 
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