Topper/Lymph

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topper2@... wrote:

There are three of four stages of lymph. It's hard for me to describe,

I'm a beginner with this.

I'll try though....

my belly.... I've had fat belly... it's harder.... it's more solid...

Lymph fluid belly is like a water balloon not filled all the way... and,

just like I read, you lay down and the belly goes flat as it flows around

your sides. It doesn't stick up and keep you from seeing your toes. Go ahead

and laugh... it's a funny picture.. but it's the best way I can think of

to describe it.... Before I started loosing weight I had to prop up the

tv at the foot end of my bed cause my belly was in my line of sight, cutting

off part of the bottom of the screen. Now.... when I lay down... nothing

in the way. Stand up and it's back.

When I lay on my side.. the belly flows out, I can't even think of

anything similar.

**********My belly does this. Its the only time my belly is almost

flat. I can lay there and feel my hip bones and pretend I'm skinny again.

when I lay on my side my belly flows out too. **********

When the tissue becomes fibrotic.. you can feel where it stops.. the

ridge/ledge/edge I feel in my shins.... you can feel the where the fibrotic

tissue ends and normal tissue begins...

**********By fibrotic do you mean hard? I have pockets of swelling on my

shins and the back(top?) of my wrists. Not hard, but firmer than fat tissue.

I can tell where it ends and begins like you mentioned.I just poked and the

dents did not stay. A few years back I had asked my doc why I had these odd

pockets of fat. She didn't really have an answer for me .*************

I THINK... catch that... I THINK that some of the folks that are dealing

with huge swings in weight... aren't dealing with fat weight.. I think they

are dealing with lymph fluid... backing up and then being expelled... but

I can't get anyone to talk about it... everyone that has experienced gaining

20 pounds in a week and then losing 10 the next with no change in diet says

it's calories and metabolism.....

*********When I quit smoking this happened to me. Twenty pounds in one week.

But the weight kept increasing over 2 months. I quit smoking because I felt

ill. REAL ill. So quit smoking and coffee at the same time. My stomach grew

HUGE mega size. I couldn't go anywhere. I had to dig out my maternity tops.

Then my back started to hurt real bad. I went for a good month bent over

half way. I decided that my back was hurting because my belly had gotten

so huge. I started to do 100 sit ups each morning and night. I thought that

would be good for my back and belly.It was very painful but I was desperate.

Started yoga and told my husband I wanted a treadmill. NOW. So also started

forcing myself to walk each day. Decided to do atkins again because it worked

so well for me before. Was very strict, did not cheat once. My back was still

in pain, my belly was still big but I " FELT" healthier. After my 2 wk induction

I went to measure and I was bigger all over. I was home alone, I shut the

bathroom door and I just started to cry. I cried because every thing of "me"

was gone. I cried because I didn't know why this was happening to me. I

cried because I wasn't pretty and normal anymore. How was I going to live

my life feeling like a hideous gross monster old lady fat person. Oh God

how was my husband going to love this bigger person I have become............Anyway,

time went on and eventually I hit 205 lbs My whole body went arthritic and

my family couldn't wake me up in the morning anymore. Back to the doctor.

(same one that made me sign the "S" contract) I said something IS wrong with

me. I WILL not leave untill you help me.Finally diagnosed with hypo tsh 97.

But now I know that it was my adrenals that I had problems with first. All

that exersize I was doing was actually making me sicker and filling me with

fluid. I'm at 180 pounds now and alot of that is swelling. I think it cycles.

Thank you so much for posting about this I need to find out some more. I

have swelling above my knees that itches like crazy and I'm always breaking

that skin open. Tina (sorry to ramble)