Hi, sounds like you are having a really rough time, I do not mean to sound unsympathetic but a lot of what is bothering you really is weight related. I know I have been there. Last year I could barely move, much less get up and down to garden or do much of anything. But I did manage to lost 40 pounds or so and it has made the biggest difference in my life. It is not fun to lose it but it was even less fun to carry it around and be so miserable. I have bad arthritis in my knees and things are so much better. I plan on losing double what I have already lost and hope that things will be that much bettter for me. I work out about 4-6 times a week including yoga and it has helped so much. So what I am saying is start with trying to lose just 5 pounds at a time. That is really not so hard to confront and can be done and you will feel so much better for every 5 that come off. I think you will find that a lot of the things that are plagueing you wil disappear. Good luck.
Could I Post My Health Concerns Here?????
boy am i ever glad i stopped to read this forum today, first of all berry girl we are practically neighbors i live in nicholson and also use to live in braselton. any how. i understand your frustrations with meds because of one of them glucophage i now have kidney failure, i also suffer from diabetes an anuerysm on aorta to kidney , severe venous stasis disease, have had two bi pass operations and stents in my legs. i also have severe osteo arthritis in all of my joints littereally every joint in my body. i suffer in tolerable pain and am on oxycontin for it . also have the spinal stenosis and degenerative disc disease i can no longer walk. have also had the zapping procedures in my lower back which helped for a while but they grew back. I have pressure sores one on the very top of my leg and a hole in my foot that wont heal. also suffer from depression three different kinds. i take effexor which is the only one i could take and it helps me to cope . i take phoslo for kidneys and norvasc for blood pressure and zonegran for the nueropathic pain .. i also have sleep apnea and use a bi pap machine which i use when i sleep which isnt much . i am on my third day of being awake. i will crash probably tomrorrow and the cycle will start again. now to top matters all off the doctors all say there is nothing more they can do for me. i ask my self then why do they still want my money LOL. i did not tell you all this for sympathy but to let you know i understand what you are going through and that you are not alone. i too know about the freinds disappearing even family becomes distant, at first its poor thing but they dotn want to hear any more about it . and refuse to accept that i cant walk anymore and hav e to use wheelchair.
i dont know if any of the rest of you have this problem but have people saying they know so and so was healed. my answer to them is sometimes God wants us just the way we are so he can use us for Him in the state we are in. sometimes when the pain is really bad i remind the lord that he said he wouldnt give us any more then we could bear. sometimes i wish he didnt trust me so much LOL.
i also have other physcial problems but i cant always remember all of them. thank goodness my mind dont remember as good as it use to. LOL. just remember there is someone nearby who understands what you are going thru berry girl. may God bless
quietscream,
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After reading your post, I feel my health problems are puny compared to yours. Thanks for reminding me that there are folks much worse off than me. I am thankful to the LORD that I am as healthy as I am. Please know that you are in my thoughts and prayers. I hope we can keep in touch seeing we live so close. Maybe we could do some plant swaps or something, huh?? Prior to getting married in 1989, I lived in Commerce which is very near you. I used to know a lot of folks in Nicholson, BTW. It is a small world!!
plant swaps , you mean part with my babies LOL. that would be cool . i been going nuts on ebay getting plants. been getting a lot of succulents. some really butt ugly ones but they are so cool . just started to use coir for potting and already learning i need to use pealite with it as well as some frit as well. but thats what is about learning as we go. starte a couple things from seeds , i know what one is but forgot what the other one is so will have to wait for it to get bigger to find out if it is accacia or a fat plant. i lost the little paper i had meant to write down the name of what it was on it. i also just started some monkey pod rain trees. one of them didnt want to give up its seed so started grwoing with its seed pod on its head. has to be a smart aleck in every bunch LOL.
well i shall close this so i dont make another episltle out of it . btw i live near the bug lite baptist church in nicholson . down the road a little. thats not the name of it but we call it that cause of the thing they got on top of church that looks like a big bug light . lol.