12 days from 3 years out and dealing with medical issues

May 05, 2011

Weight is at 195 today, about 5 pounds gained in past week or so. Interesting past 5 days. Good news is I found out my Anastomotic ulceration is healed. Back in Feb we found the ulcer when doing an exploratory EGD looking for causes of my bacterial overgrowth. No doubt 5 months of anti-inflammatories taken for joint pain were to blame. What is so surprising is even though for the last month I went back on the anti-inflammatory (NSAID) my ulcer healed. The healed ulcer makes things much less complicated in case we have to go in and reverse the RNY as a last resort. Still suffering from severe joint pain, off the anti-biotics this week by direction of bariatric surgeon. If I flare up, then the consensus is the cause of the joint pain is indeed a bacterial overgrowth and it will confirm the diagnosis. I don't want a reversal unless it's the last option, but I can't continue to live in this mode of joint and muscle pain 24/7. It is delibitating. I have hope that the Lord will see me through.

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