Pain...

Jul 25, 2010

About a month ago, I had an episode of pain about an hour after I ate. Severe lower intestinal pain, low back pain and nausea. It lasted about 15-20min and then I was fine. At first I thought it was dumping, but then I talked to my doctor and she said it might be my gallbladder, so I had an ultrasound done of my abdomen and thankfully it came back normal. The night before my doctor called to give me the ultrasound results, I had another attack of pain. She asked what I had eaten and I told her just a yogurt, but I did just take my iron pill and birth control pill. She said it could possibly be my iron pill, but just to be on the safe side she sent me for a CT scan of my abdomen to make sure there wasn't a blockage. I have not had any attacks since I stopped taking my iron pill and my CT scan came back normal. So, we're both thinking it's the iron pill--so she told me to stay off the iron and they'll check my levels at my 6mos. check-up and go from there--so strange that out of nowhere my iron pill was causing me these awful attacks.

Another source of pain has been the left side of my tailbone. I was reading some posts earlier and I guess a lot of WLS patients do experience pain in their tailbone b/c obviously you don't have as much "cushion" for your bones anymore--so strange what issues this surgery can bring up!! All in all, I'm doing really well. I'm down 64lbs and I'm able to incorporate different foods into my diet. Had some grilled chicken the other day and didn't throw it up =) I've been eating a lot of salads lately and I'm totally hooked on the power crunch protein wafer bars--OMG, they are the BEST!! 14 grams of protein, 4-5 grams of sugar and they don't have an aftertaste and aren't heavy/thick like the other bars out there--so I'm pushing protein and doing good. I admit I haven't been working out--owe a back balance on my gym membership, so can't go there, but I should at least do something at home...one step at at time--but all in all I'm proud of my progress :)

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