Re: 3/20/11: Start of Spring

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On 3/20/2011 12:10 PM, ABrite@... wrote:

>My

knee is swollen today (this week, in general). It's been

painful, etc. I know I did something to tweak it exercising

a week ago, so I have taken the week off from exercise.

You poor thing! 2 steps forward, one step back. I know how much you

miss getting out there foot to path!

I keep pulling my back out, and then when it starts to feel good

enough to do a workout again the plantar fasciitis in the left foot

starts in again. So I grab the mini-bike for a workout and pull a

chest muscle, etc. About the only thing I can do that *doesn't* hurt

is qigong, but that doesn't help much for a weight loss or cardiac

workout. No gain, but no weight loss, either.

>If "gentle" exercising can

still piss my knee off, I know walking 7.5 miles on it would

be a major set back.

Sucks, doesn't it?

>It's been 6 months since my surgery.

My weight is still up because of fluctuations and I am sure

swelling. Like I said, my knee is swollen (I measure it, so

I can tell better when it is holding fluids).

Does the surgeon offer you any hope that this will eventually stop

and go back to normal, or is your knee officially messed up now

until you get a replacement joint?

>My mother has been

going to town with the baked goods and breads.

I got Ed to stop buying junk food that I would eat and he now sticks

to stuff I don't like, like sour cream and onion potato chips.

Yecch! I would never be tempted to eat those!

>Last night was pizza night - I know

that is part of why the weight (and retention) are up this

morning.

I keep using food as a reward for doing stressful work, like

handling Ed's senile aunt, acting as the go-between between her and

people trying to help her. Almost daily she's trying to run the

homemaker out of the house, won't let contractors do their job,

fights with the garbageman and mail carriers. What makes it even

more stressful is the fact that she's almost deaf and in order to

*hear* me on the phone I have to shout. After 6 hours of shouting to

her on Friday when the gutter guys were there to do some work I told

Ed when he came home that he owed me, that instead of the healthy

whole wheat, fat-free, cheese-free healthy pizza I usually make

we're having take-out, the real thing, complete with dripping grease

and real full fat dairy. It tasted delicious, but within a half hour

of eating it I had big regrets and wished I had some pepto in the

house.

>I

had my "annual" blood tests yesterday. I am sure they are

testing cholosterol (sp?), triglycerides, etc and also the

thyroid.

Good luck. When will you get the results?

>I think my thyroid

is broken. I am cold all of the time,

Well, you DO live in Snowkane! LOL

>I am tired all of the time, among

other "symptoms" of a wacked thyroid.

Did they draw for Vitamin D levels, too? That can also cause the

same symptoms as hypothyroid and make a slow thyroid worse.

>If the test comes back "normal"

Be sure to get the exact numbers when you go for the results and be

prepared to argue with the doc about what constitutes a normal range

nowadays. Some labs, like LabCorp, use the old reference range of

0.5 to 5 for the TSH, but the endocrine associations have stated

that the ideal range is now 0.3 to 3.3. Look on-line for

Shomon's or Stop the Thyroid Madness sites. I fought with my doc for

years over this and finally last year he agreed that the levels I

had were too off and he kept increasing my dosage until I got into

the new normal range. I still feel as bad as I did before, but now

he's blaming the low D level for that and he's hoping once *that*

comes up I should feel human again. Doc, I've had this overwhelming

fatigue going on 28 years now. I doubt a few Vitamin D capsules will

make much difference.

Sue in NJ

who still falls asleep during Jeopardy most nights