I'd know if I had insurance, but part of doing this whole wacky weight-loss thing was quitting my job, so, nope, no insurance for me. I mean, have you ever tried getting insurance at 360 pounds? Didn't think so. I knew it wasn't gonna happen.
And, seriously, I've been healthy. I've had maybe one cold this entire time. Maybe two. Or three. No bad ones. My eyes went to crap, but I got that taken care of (sort of) right before I left my job, and any further treatment'd be experimental and not covered anyway. And, hey, I plan on going to my OB/GYN after I reach goal, mostly so I can rub my success in his face. He said I couldn't do it. So very wrong.
The only thing that bothers me is this: sometimes, about 3-4 hours after I eat, I start getting pain. It starts as "kind of uncomfortable" and quickly builds to "oh dear God why?" Tylenol sometimes knocks it down, sometimes doesn't. It's right on my upper right side, below my breast, sometimes spreading to center. I get bloated. I spend a few hours in the fetal position--which doesn't really help, but I think it makes me feel better--and then it passes. Almost as quickly as it came. A few hours total, maybe 4. And then I feel sort of...raw inside there for a couple of days. Sucktastical.
Sometimes it happens after I've overeaten on my cheat days. Sometimes I haven't overeaten, per se, but I've had a large amount of my daily calories in one meal. It happens once every month or so. It's the worst pain I've ever experienced. Complicated otitis externa wasn't as bad--though it lasted much longer, and remains the only thing that I've ever taken Vicodin for.
So, a bit of google research later, and it looks like it's probably gallstones. Well, crap. Not much I can do for those that doesn't involve a scalpel, and I don't think I can exactly afford to have it removed. So I'm boned for the moment. But I can still kvetch, so...that's totally what I'm doing.