Fell off the exercise wagon due to other issues .... woah is me ... whine warning!!!

Dog gone it! I'm frustrated! I've had a return of migraine headaches this past week ... which makes me want to exercise about as much as I'd want to put my head in a scrap metal waste compactor! I'm hoping I don't lose what fitness I have gained by taking several days off. Shoot, it takes so much time and work to get more fit, but a short time to slide back.

I'm also starting oral medication for osteopenia/osteoporosis (from years of corticosteroids and long term high dose treatment) and hoping my little tummy does just fine with it. I've avoided taking it for a couple of weeks ... just because. It's OK'd by Dr. Nelson and prescribed by Dr. McArthur, so I just need to put on my big girl panties and swallow it already! 

Additionally, my shoulders (especially my right shoulder) are giving me fits. I've been doing my best to avoid surgery on the left shoulder and now my right shoulder is doing its thing. The MRI on my left shoulder was just pitiful ... torn labrum, tendonitis, bursitis, arthritis, etc. Had the joint injected with steroids and long acting numbing medicine, PT, etc. It's been status quo for a few months and now it's really ramping it up again. But, it's now my right shoulder that I can barely use and it has surpassed my left shoulder in the pain dept. Thankfully, I can still eat my NSAIDs.

Sorry for the whine! I just feel like I need more fingers to plug the holes in the increasingly leaking dike.  Anybody got any spare fingers to loan out? Or, words of advice/encouragement? I feel like a total wimp for whining. I think I just need a total body transplant.... a healthy and skinny one please ; )

I'm so sorry you are having all this trouble.  You have done so good with your WLS and are doing what is needed to get to the "skinny" one inside!  I know if I could I would certainly loan you my fingers to plug holes.  We all have them from time to time but your complaints are real....unline my earlier one.  I should be grateful....  We all just need to look a little further don't we to be grateful with what we are going through!!  Hang in there....as they say "pull up them "big girl panties""!! 

Thanks for offering the loan of the fingers and listening to my whine. ; ) Don't feel like your problems aren't real ... people can be real problems! Especially in the form of dysfunctional moms and mother-in-laws!

Truthfully, I'd rather be dealing with my physical problems than the relationship problems (I have a doozie of a mom and m-i-l, too). The physical problems just hurt and are a pain in the backside, but the people problems can rob all of us of our joy and confidence in a heartbeat. I've got you in my prayers and don't feel like you've made a mountain out of a molehill. That mountain is real in my book! But, you're going to make it past the naysayers and dysfunctionals and choose to be around those than encourage and support you ... listen to those folks that tell you the truth and can voice their care about you! : )

Thanks Shelly!  I could write a book about my Mom.....  or two or 3 or 4.  Oh well, just because we're related and I love them doesn't mean I have to "like" them does it??  I will be praying for you and your physical ailments as well.  We know the Healer of all!!!

Shelly, I am sorry your shoulders hurt.  Do you think that maybe your migraines stem from the skeletal issues and pain?  I certainly understand joint issues since I have RA and OA.  Pain is just exhausting! 

Take your osteporosis meds!  You don't need to add spinal fractures and hip problems to the existing list!

I don't have any spare fingers- sorry!  Mine are all busy either wiping sweat from the hot flashes or plugging holes in my own dike (hips hurt like crazy- new x-rays really ugly!)

What NSAID do you take?  Maybe it is time to switch it up?  I find every few years I need to change mine to make it effective again.  I am currently waiting on insurance to decide I can have Celebrex.  Mobic is not working as well as it used to. You might check on that with your doctor.

Denise

Oh Shelly, I'm so sorry you are having such a bad time of things right now.  I will say a special prayer of healing for you.

Be well.

Huggs,

Pam

Long term pain can just wear a person out.  I stayed off the Celebrex till I really couldn't stand it any more-and now I'd wish I'd started taking it 5 years ago. 

Let me know when you want to meet for lunch and knit again-or just visit.

((Hugs)) whine anytime, honey. It sucks to feel bad. I have a friend with RA and she takes shots every so many months that knock her down but then she feels good again. Sometimes we need to whine so we can deal with what we're going through. Here's to feeling good again!