Healthy Me

What a week we've had.

Two nights ago, my body warned me that my eating habits lately were pretty bad (with Halloween candy around, plus candy from my birthday and Sweetest Day, what else was going to happen but bad eating habits?).  I had a gallbladder attack - gallstones are such a bummer!  It's been over a year I think since my last attack.  I was not expecting this attack at all.  It's generally hash browns that bring them on but I've not had hash browns in forever.

My Recent Gallbladder Attack Symptoms:

I was sitting in bed reading and felt like I had heartburn.  I thought it was the pizza but I don't get heartburn unless I'm pregnant (which I'm not).  Then the pain and burning was on my right side, right up under my rib cage in front and up through shoulder blades in back, front and back, and I felt nauseous...oops, gallbladder attack! I drank a lot of water, did some stretches, gagged a little bit, and then it was over. Thankfully, it was a minor attack compared to previous ones. Usually I vomit for at least an hour - repeatedly and very hard and cry in a lot of pain while wondering if this stone blocking the way is too big to pass through.  This one didn't even make me cry.

Too bad gallbladder - I win this round!

I haven't found a "healthy me" yet but I am getting there in part due to my recently diagnosed gallbladder disease (gallstones...wow do those hurt) and my T3 dose increase.  I have 19.2 pounds left to go.  I am finally losing all that weight I regained back so I am back on track!  I didn't even gain any weight over Thanksgiving.

My skin is still messed up a bit - eczema in some areas, the need to visit http://www.acnewash.org/ in other areas, and then weird callus-like roughness and flaking on my right ankle (what the heck is that?).  

I'm just happy to get on the scale and see it going down again!

I had another gall bladder attack on Friday - worse than the first but not as bad as the second.  Thankfully, it only lasted a few hours and was over with.  A quick trip thru a drive-thru brought it on.  I knew better too but I am hypoglycemic and when I started getting nauseous while on the road, with little time to spare, I couldn't pull over to eat a salad so I ate the bad stuff while I drove.  It looks like potatoes in grease is my trigger (such as french fries, hash browns). 

I need to eat better this week so I can enjoy the five day holiday my kids have from school, plus my in-laws are coming into town.  Then, there is shopping!  I am looking forward to Cyber Monday so I can start shopping for my four kids.

I hope everybody has a Happy Thanksgiving later this week! 

Getting healthy isn't going so well for me.  Apparently, I might have a gallbladder problem now if the two attacks I had over the weekend are any indication and are truly my gallbladder.  I'm 99% certain that it is my gallbladder.  The attacks were not fun.  Horrible in fact.  Pain worse than childbirth!

Thankfully, they only occurred during the night and didn't impact my day (other than being tired from lack of sleep).  I have too much to do during the day to get sidelined by illness.  Right now, I am on the hunt for baby thank you cards for a new mom whose child is going to celebrate his first birthday next week. I also have appointments to schedule and chauffeuring of my kids to do later for cheerleading. The gallbladder really needs to take a number!

If you came to this post through a gallbladder search, you might be looking for symptoms (I know I did!).  Mine were pain on the right side of my abdomen under my ribs, really bad pain around through my back, nausea, and vomiting.  I could not get comfortable in any position with some positions hurting more than others.  For my second attack, even the elastic waistband on my pajama bottoms hurt!  Both attacks came on after eating high fat meals earlier in the day.  One attack lasted 4-5 hours and the other lasted 2-1/2 hours.  They both stopped spontaneously (pain pills don't work).