Recovery Progress Reports for Hysterectomy dates Sep 05-Sep 11,2011

I am having trouble losing also..my blood pressure meds caused me to retain fluid..so its an uphill battle..I joined Weight Watchers and am going to Curves 3 times a week..its so hard..but I am in it to get healthy!! Good Luck..

Thank you. You too

Definitely a combination of exercise and being aware of what we eat will make changes to our bodies. My worst culprit is bread. In love it but it causes me to bloat and retain fluid. So I've ditched it, apart from maybe once a week I have brown grain bread with poached eggs. My special treat! I've found my body is not so sluggish when I don't eat bread. Also, I try and have a day where I just eat salads with shredded chicken and toasted sunflower seeds sprinkled on top. It seems to fill me but also makes me feel good. It's the psychological reaction to food that I'm trying to control, like not eating out of boredom or needing comfort food, or bingeing just because it tastes so good! Once I get my brain to connect to eating for health and wellbeing, I find I can take control of my weight. I also do 3 one hour cardio sessions and an hour yoga/pilates based stretch session every week.

That's a great idea. Thanks I have been looking into of more of I need to lose 10 pounds fast and I know that's not going to happen them I say to hell with it and eat something bad that day I really just need to be more healthy but when I do try for a couple weeks and don't see any results it is so frustrating. Grrr. Lol thanks legal68. I will try

Hey Everyone
I realized I haven't been here in a long time and remember how a year ago I was so freaked out about the upcoming surgery etc. so i thought I'd come on see how you guys are and see if I can offer encouragement to the newbies.

As far as the weight loss thing goes, I really do think staying away from sugar and white flour really helps along with exercise of course

Hi Everyone!

A funny thing happened at my yearly physical... (actually not funny ha ha but funny "huh")

Go thru our list of usual stuff. Yes, my gallbladder still hurts me, love my hysterectomy, and for some reason I can't really eat food anymore without wanting to throw up. I'm not really worried about it because it's classic gallbladder. They do the blood test, a stool sample, and send me on my way to the GI doc. I know the routine. At this point I'm starting to fall on the side of getting the darn thing removed because I can't continue to not eat.

Well, my stool sample comes back positive for occult blood. To me this is no big deal because I have some bleeding in my stomach from meds. My GI doc doesn't agree because I've been on nexium for a month and the bleeding should be gone. After much arm twisting she convinces me to do a colonoscopy. I really, really didn't want to. I'm 43 and have never had one before and could go my whole life without one. As my husband likes to say, everyone poops, but I'm really weird about that particular body part and function.

I have my scope and the doc comes and talks to me in recovery. The first thing she says is "that scope saved your life". I don't remember much but what I do remember is:
There were 2 masses and a polyp. One of the masses looked really bad.
I think we caught it in time.
We'll need to find out if it spread and then decide what our next course of action is.

I showed the pictures to my mom who is a hospice RN. She cried. She said it didn't look good. She is usually very optimistic. It was hard to get that from my mom.

That was yesterday. I have to wait a week for the official results but everyone seems convinced that they know. Yesterday was a hard day. I cried a lot. Today I decided that yesterday didn't happen. It doesn't feel real yet. I don't know how I feel. My world is grey right now with black clouds on the horizon.

I guess I'm sharing this because I need to put it in print. I can't remember who had what in our little group that led them to a hysterectomy but if anyone went down this path, I guess I'm reaching out.

I'm pretty scared.

Oh Upintheair what is going on???!!! I tell you that sucks. It is great you had the colonoscopy. I had one too prior to my hysterectomy. It sounds like your doctor is fairly confident of a positive outcome. You just have to let It be for a week. Horrible. You will stress and worry. And sounds like your mom will do a double shift with you on that too! I'm so sorry to hear this news. I will be thinking of you daily until we hear the good results xo cyber hug from me xo

Hugs and prayers coming your way!

So sorry to hear that. Hugs and prayers for you. I know it's hard not to stress but keep your head up and try not to worry untill your results come in. They found some in my sister and they wear huge I mean huge and they thought the worst but they came back as fine they got it all. So you never know. Please let us know the results. We are here for you.

Hugs and Prayers for you..please keep us informed as to what's going on..hopefully it will all work out for the best..please don't look on the bad side..think positive!!