Doc's appt: (I want a new drug) Chantix anyone?

Ok...  here's the poop..  He kept going on and on about the weight loss - he said it's fabulous, stupendous.. much more than he would have hoped for and to keep doing my do.  The sugar is virtually non-existent mostly.. no more little infections, clear headed, eyes are bright and toes are in good shape.  Neuropathy is still there.. that can take another 9 months or so.

Fluid is my problem.. this is how I'm going to react to car rides and certain meds and that's that.  Lasix and potassium as usual.

BP went from 160/90 something to 114/77

Got a chest x ray to take a peek at my lungs (I didn't get a call so it can't be that bad) and gotta get an MRI for myyass.  Gonna get this pain in myass OVA wit!

He wanted a list of all the foods I eat, the supplements I take..  and he wrote it all down
He doesn't like the idea of chromium picolinate to regulate my bs.. so he put the ixnay on it
cut me down to 400 on the vitamin E... everything else is looking good.

He hasn't ASKED me to quit smoking this time....  I got told off in spades and he gave me an rx for chantix.

I'm back on crestor..

Gotta go back in 4 months instead of 6 this time.  How much more can I lose in 4 months considering I've been stuck for like 4 months!  lol  Today I'm back down to 209....

Don't know about you, but it burns my a** that these docs are just never satisfied.  You lose like 100lb, get rid of your diabetes and they want you to quit smoking too?

Ok, ok so I know they have your best interest at heart and it's probably the best thing you can do for yourself (logic playing here)....but are there no vices left?

Great stats, Lori....wow, you've come a long way baby.  (Was that a cigarette commercial...sorry!)

If anybody can do it...you can!  I have faith!!

Yea.. VIrginia Slim.... I wanna be a LORI SLIM!  SMOKE ME!

I've been ditching vices one by one...  but yanno what?  It's about time.  Gotta grow up sometime.

A long time ago, when I was such a mess that I couldn't find a coherent sentence with both hands and a flashlight... someone told me:  Let's say you have a cleaning job to do on a house you have to live in.  The place is a mess....    the first thing you do is pick up a broom and sweep off the porch steps.. then the porch.  Come in - and do one room at a time.  Apply the same principles to your body.  In essence.. I've been polluting this temple for years...  I really don't want to show up at the pearly gates in THIS condition!

I think I can probably do this faster..  but if I did I think I'd give up and go back to all of my old ways.  One thing at a time here... lol

Great job on the BP & BS results.  You have totally turned your life around. 

You should feel especially good today!!

Brenda

 

It's hard!!  I know it took me lots of trying different ways before I found one way that would work for me.  Sort of just like our diet plans! :)  

Whenever your ready...good luck and all my prayers will be with you, cause I know it's tough!  But heck..your a tough lady to crack, like Sherrie said...I have faith in you.  You can do anything you want to do, you just got to want to do it! :)

Have a happy Thursday, Friday is almost here....yayyyy! 

Just wanted to say My father took Chantix...it worked for him :)

my mom just got done taking it also.  it was working well for her until she got off of it..  she was back to her regular amount in no time at all.  she refuses to start it back up again because it made her so nauseas all the time.  

Good luck! 

yea... it's making me pretty sick.  Nausea. .  headaches.. shakes..   I keep eating to settle my stomache so I guess if I stay with it my diet is pretty well blown.  I'm staying on plan, but too much.  First I can't sleep  then I'm so tired I can't keep my heaed up.

I was just asleep,.. for a whole5 minutes


this just isn't going to work


It's day 6.. the one mg.. and I'm still smoking.

But have you decreased your smoking at all? Well, it's deff not for everyone! I remember I used things like that off and on (patches, etc.). The only thing that got me to quit is to figure out how much I regularly smoke. Then in the morning I would put that amount in my pack minus one or two. Whichever I felt comfortable with. Stayed at this amount for a week, and then decreased again one or two for another week. Sometimes I had to stay on the same amount for two weeks. It took me about eight months to get down to ten cigs a day and that is where I couldn't go down any further. I then had to go cold turkey and quit. But it was no where near as bad as going cold turkey after smoking a pack and a half a day. Was the best way a doctor ever told me how to do it. Sure it took a while, but heck..so does losing weight..one day at a time!

Wish there was a simple solution for ya. As for the weight, you already know your probably gonna end up gaining a little bit of weight. I was scared ****less about this. It's the whole reason why I never stopped smoking before! Ok..well maybe because I enjoyed it also.hehe But the doc told me even at this weight it was better for me in the long run to quit, so I did. I can't remember how much I gained, but I think it was around twenty or thirty pounds. I didn'****ch my weight at that point either though. Plus you got willpower like nobodies business!! :)

Good luck on deciding what to do. I know it's a tough one.

PS...Oh yea, I think my mom still smoked also for quite some time.  I'll have to ask her how long it took.  I know about after a month she was smoking like half at a time and only a few times a day....I "think".  I'll ask her tomorrow. 

I think I'm going to have to try it YOUR way while using the Chantix.  I'm hardcore... 3 packs a day.  Yesterday I actually set the empty packs aside as I finished them so I could see what I was smoking.. and yesterday it was less... 2.5 packs.

A doctor friend of mine explained to me yesterday that the illness is nicotine withdrawal.  It's just raunchy...  not as bad as coming off of some other drugs, lemme tell ya, but not something I'd want to deliberately do to myself.  This morning I awoke, took the chantix and something for pain along with it and went back to sleep.  I think I slept through the worst of the headache and shakes. 

Tomorrow I up the dose to 2 mgs.  LOL  I've NEVER taken a drug that makes me feel sick.  I gotta push past the psychobabble part of the whole thing.  My M.O. is that if a pill doesn't make me feel good.. or anything at all.. I just don't remember to take it.  If it makes me feel bad....  I sure as hell won't take it.  Deliberately taking a drug that's going to make me feel like crap is like getting over a huge hurdle.