Foxtrot
Is back in the saddle!
And back again. Haven't been sick this week, yay! I have the doctors referring me to my specialist again though, boo.
I have been having terrible trouble with sore boobs. Bear with here. I had a hysterectomy (kept ovaries) 18 years ago and apart from stopping all period symptoms nothing else happened until last year. After a few blood tests at the beginning of the year I was told I had finally, finally gone into menopause. Well everything went rather pear shaped as they have a want to do and I didn't like life very much and eventually I was put on to HRT. I don't need outdated lectures about the stuff thank you, my quality of life was dire and now it's not and I will get over it.
Anyway that was in October and slowly, slowly I have been having those aches you have with the usual monthly hormonal changes. This last two weeks has been the strongest yet when even I couldn't go near my boobs and it's taken me an age to realise that I also had the huge bloated feeling with water retention too. (It's been 18 years since I've felt PTMish!!) Monday I felt like a popped balloon and the scales showed a 3lb loss overnight!!! I'm hoping that my STS weigh ins are down to this and I can actually lose weight taking into account I may have this week or two every month that needs patience. I'm also going to lessen the dose of HRT to see how my body is getting on underneath the artificial camouflage. I cannot put up with joints that are so swollen and painful I can't move or the murderous thoughts though so will be careful there.
Thats the plan. This does probably slow down my over all weight loss which will give me less time to buy clothes, hopefully in a smaller size, before travelling and if there is one thing I hate in this world more than anything, it's clothes shopping!
Second fast day of the week today and feeling good! Looking forward to tomorrows weigh in.
I have been having terrible trouble with sore boobs. Bear with here. I had a hysterectomy (kept ovaries) 18 years ago and apart from stopping all period symptoms nothing else happened until last year. After a few blood tests at the beginning of the year I was told I had finally, finally gone into menopause. Well everything went rather pear shaped as they have a want to do and I didn't like life very much and eventually I was put on to HRT. I don't need outdated lectures about the stuff thank you, my quality of life was dire and now it's not and I will get over it.
Anyway that was in October and slowly, slowly I have been having those aches you have with the usual monthly hormonal changes. This last two weeks has been the strongest yet when even I couldn't go near my boobs and it's taken me an age to realise that I also had the huge bloated feeling with water retention too. (It's been 18 years since I've felt PTMish!!) Monday I felt like a popped balloon and the scales showed a 3lb loss overnight!!! I'm hoping that my STS weigh ins are down to this and I can actually lose weight taking into account I may have this week or two every month that needs patience. I'm also going to lessen the dose of HRT to see how my body is getting on underneath the artificial camouflage. I cannot put up with joints that are so swollen and painful I can't move or the murderous thoughts though so will be careful there.
Thats the plan. This does probably slow down my over all weight loss which will give me less time to buy clothes, hopefully in a smaller size, before travelling and if there is one thing I hate in this world more than anything, it's clothes shopping!
Second fast day of the week today and feeling good! Looking forward to tomorrows weigh in.
