OT: QUESTIONS

Hello everyone, I am hoping I can get some help on this. Okay, I don't know if this is just that time of the month issue or what. I guess I have not really paid attention. Lately, I just seem really depressed I have some days that are worse than others. It is just like my body is out of wack or something. Before my monthly I get really and then after I noticed that I am majorly depressed and I can cry about anything and everything. But having other issues on top of it I am not sure if that is why I feel like I do. My weight loss has stalled and I don't think I will lose anymore, and I know I don't do the things like I should. I am just really confused right now. I am 1 yr. out has anyone ever gone through anything like this? Christie

Christie, Welcome to my world. Sorry you are going through all of this...its hard. I started with a therapist about a year out because of these issues. I saw the need because of slipping back to old habits . I didn't do them but the thought process was there. I was afraid of my past endeavors doing well losing and failing by going back up the scale. Your hormones will take a while to get back to play....You could go to gyn and ask for some help with that. The weight....well it definitely slows to nothing right about now. Its a fight to get a pound sometimes. For a year we learned to love the magic of the weight loss and looked forward to our success. We got accustom to it and enjoyed the ride alot. Now we are close to NORMAL (gosh I hate that word) and our loss becomes more NORMAL (pound or two month). If you are journaling your foods...keeping your calories in 1200-1400 range, exercise daily and proteins high you can still lose it won't be like before. Its going to take you awhile to reprogram...I still am doing this at 20 months. I am a bit slower than most people. I guess I had a lot more to work on for my self design! Journaling my feelings has helped me. Find something you can use as an outlet for these feelings so they don't eat you up. Hugs and Fleece Blankets Debbie

How are you doing with your B-12?

Terrible actually. I was going to the doctor for the shots and then since I had no insurance I have not got them, and I forgot to pick up the sub-linguals. Christie

Christie, If I may be so bold and simply speak with love and concern. B-12 is not an option for us posties. There is no room for forgetting. Your quality of life and life itself could be reliant upon your compliance. Christie, I have taken my B-12 like clockwork since my surgery, and yet I started having some symptoms that were concerning. The one that really caught my attention was tingling in my fingers. I knew I could be looking at pn. Not willing to waste any time I started on a different form of B-12 which does not have to go through as many processes as the form that I had been taking. I noticed an almost immediate lessening of the tingling. And within a couple of weeks the tingling had completely disappeared. The symptoms you posted could very well be just normal stuff ... but quite honestly, B-12 deficiency screamed out at me as I read your post. And when you say you have not been getting your shots or taking your sublingual ... well ... Please read the articles, research to find more information, and get your B-12 in you. Do not waste time, get the B started ASAP. Even if low B-12 is not the reason for your above symptoms ... it is something that is needed and you need to be taking it. If the sublingual B-12 that you were taking was not doing the job for you (the reason for the shots), then let me know and I will send you the source of my current B-12 Methyl-B. I am hoping that you have not taken offense to anything I have written, please trust that it was done in love and concern. Tammy

Hi Tammy, no I do not take offense to anything that you said. It is all true, and I am bad at taking it, I must admit. The B-12 I just hate waiting for them to dissolve, but I will start taking them ASAP> Thank you for everything, Christie

http://www.health-boundaries-bite.com/B12-Malabsorption-Illness.html http://www.epic4health.com/areyouvitb12.html http://www.mts.net/~baumel/B12.html http://www.johndommissemd.com/report4.html

I neglected to include one of the best sites to get information on B-12 deficiency and malabsorption. Excellent http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-573.html

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