[mamakat]

Hi, I'm new to the boards. I was searching on line and happened upon it, loved the name and decided it sounds just like the thing for me. I turned 39 this year and with that came a lot of crazy things. I went to my Gyno in April because my period had yet to stop. After doing the "can you pee in the cup" routine, they put me on the scale. I gasped with horror. I knew I was heavy but it said 283lbs. I became very scared.

Everyone in my family has died of some form of cancer. I'm the last of my line except for my children. And facing the future tests and results became frightening. Meanwhile, she wasn't the only doctor I was seeing. My rhuemetologist gave up on me because she said that there just wasn't anything proving to her I had pain, although she knew that I had it. So she sent me off to a Neurologist.

The following two months I had two hand surgeries and a hysterectomy. Then I was treated for iron deficiency and a lot of other deficiencies which got the surgeons talking. Something was wrong with my digestive system. I can not tell you how many tests I have gone through to find out what it is and they still haven't found anything. The neurologist found muscle failure, but there is no cure or treatment.

All the while I am seeing a psychiatrist who has me on meds that I'm not happy with. By the end of summer I had lost 33lbs. How I just don't know. Now I've been told not to eat anything with gluten, not to exercise (heavily) and that instead of depression I'm Bipolar. I keep wondering what's going to hit me next, but then something like food poisoning (this past week) hits. So I stop asking those questions.

I am trying to stay positive. I've even pulled out my DS weightloss couch. Only I can't always do what "she" wants. I've been stuck in the 250 range for awhile now. And guess I just need to know that I'm not alone in this battle.
Sorry to have gone on so long. I'm also a mommy of two kids 10 and 14 and they are the only two I get to talk to all day (when they're home). I have yet to learn how to make friends.
Anyway looking forward to some good posts that will be helpful and upbeat and that will show to me, I'm not alone.
Kat

[blueice10]

I am so sorry you had to go through all that. I said a little prayer for you. I hope you don't mind that.
I also have no friends besides my boyfriend. I do have a therapist but that's not a friend. I don't know how to make friends either, besides my boyfriend.
I wish the best for you. May the rest of this year and all of next year go smoothly for you.

[mamakat]

Thanks, seriously finding out that I'm not "crazy" and being validated about body pain that took a load off. And I was glad to see the uterus go, it was a bad model. I think now that I'm off gluten I may start seeing some movement. My DS weightloss couch wants me to lose 5 pounds in the next month. Well I just finished busting my backside downstairs in my gym so lets hope I can make that little video game stick figure happy. And my daughter is going to walk with me through a park today because the couch insists on that.
I think I'm in a good place now. I can only see a good future ahead. Now if I can just go say hello to someone, maybe I could make a friend who could walk in the park with me. Ha, I don't see that happening. It's weird for a person to say they don't have a friend other than husband/boyfriend and children. And I can't even say I'm friends with my family as they're gone. It sort of gives you a inferiority complex. Ah well I'm 39 I can't start worrying about that now :P
Thanks for your prayers, that's very nice of you.

[islandchick1]

to 3FC!
You'll find the help and support you need here
Hugs and support on your weight loss journey
You CAN do this

Judy

[Onederchic]

Hi and welcome to 3FC.

Good luck with your goals.

Hugs
Michelle

[DhaniCauldwell]

Welcome and good luck!

Dhani