Anyone hurt MORE now?

Felicia, No you are not freakish at all. Once my weight started coming off my knees and back began to get sore again and I kept tripping over my feet. It finally dawned on me that I was walking "funny". Without the huge thunder thighs to keep my feet in their normal place, I had changed my gait. When walking I had to make a concentrated effort to place one foot in front of the other. I got tired of tripping and hurting. You go right ahead and complain, I feel for you. After losing 200 pounds you are probably carrying your entire body differently, so every bone, muscle and joint is having a fit. It WILL get better. Annette

Annette, i thought i was just being more clumsy lately, but i have been tripping all over the show as well, esp coming down stairs. the front of my shoes hooks into the bottom of the opposite trouser leg.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! My butt hurts big time!!!! If I lay on the recliner, it seems to hurt more, if I sit straight up, it doesn't seem to hurt as much. The one hour car ride to work, kills my butt.. I am constantly trying to change positions or sit on a slant to avoid pressure. It's really weird, and hurts like heck! My parents were talking about driving out to Myrtle Beach again, and I said I'd rather fly, only because I think my butt will be dying in the 8 hour car ride! Since my surgery, I've had so many little ailments - all bearable, but so weird, we have this surgery to better our health, and all this bizarre ailments occur after the weight loss! Pinch nerve, carpal tunnel, SORE BUTT, sciatica (but I fell in work, that triggered it). sore neck. My feet don't hurt anymore! I don't sweat profusely when using the tiniest bit of exertion! I have lots more energy than I have in years... so you take the good with the bad, I'm happy, healthier and so glad I did it. Even though I've still got a long, long, long road ahead of me, when all of you will have been at the finish line a long time, I'll be there someday soon hopefully! You're not a freak Felicia - unless I am too!!

Wow, glad to hear that others are hurting as well. Not that I am glad that anyone is hurting but good to know that I am not alone with this. My feet, ankles and back are feeling much better but it is my left hip that is killing me. My chiropractor had worked on it for months and finally I went for xrays and they found nothing. His explanation is with the rapid weight loss and I carried my body in such a way to compensate for the weight. Now without the burden of all the excess weight my body is learning a new way to carry the weight. Or, I waddled and walked funny for so long, not that I don't, my body has to learn a new way to carry myself. I too am having trouble with my posture. Whether it is from being front heavy for so long or just ashamed and slouched for that reason, but now I find that my shoulders are very rounded and I am constantly aware of how my posture looks and try to carry myself with more confidence. My daughter told me if I hold my head up high, then the rest will straighten up. Also she said to lay on your belly over one of the exercise balls or just off the edge of the bed and raise upwards with your back. Seems to help I guess. But strange how we solve a lot of our problems but new ones always seem to arise. Oh well. Take care all........Gay

In reading what you all have been saying, I have to agree there is more pain in the body and many of you have hit it right on the nail. Our bodies are changing and you are using different muscles in different ways. I know my tail bone has been hurting more since the surgery. I fell at work about a yr before my surgery and brused it really bad, work sent me to have xrays because I couldn't sit or lay on my back at all, they thought I broke it. Now, almost 2 yrs since the fall, I can't sit for more then 15 mins without moving from one cheek to the other, or sitting forward or backward. I have guessed that it is because I have nothing to cusion my tailbone anymore, but butt has done disappeared with the weight loss, LOL. I have also experienced the back pain as well. I did talk to my chiro before I moved out of Maine, and he said it was because with the weight loss you are using different muscles as well as with all the weigh on in the stomach we have been carring around for years was pulling your spine out of allignment (pulling it forward). Thus the loss of height. With the weight loss your spine can go back to where it should be and you then have better posture and your height will return to where it should be.