Blackjack's Thread of Illness and Ailments

Post by **mac5155** » Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:11 am

Most definitely. ~41 lbs this year. Kind of also feels like I'm not even trying hard enough, but I know it's an achievement.

Post by **Pavel Bure** » Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:38 am

mac5155 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:11 am Most definitely. ~41 lbs this year. Kind of also feels like I'm not even trying hard enough, but I know it's an achievement.

That’s a whole 5 year old! You lost a small child.

Post by **faftorial** » Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:08 pm

mac5155 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:53 pm
faftorial wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:40 pm
mac5155 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:06 pm Do you ever experience any swelling? I would get a little swollen from time to time and just chalk it up to "I ate too much salt" but maybe this was the cause
I was getting it from meds I was on. Calcium channel blockers for high blood pressure so I had to wear those compression socks. Went back to the dreaded beta blocker and the swelling went away.
Over the last month and a half-ish my dosage if the CC blockers has gone from 2.5-5-10mg with little lowering of BP. I have definitely noticed an increase in swelling in my feet now. Asked to have my med regimen changed. What's bad about the beta blocker...?

Dowj another 12 lbs since it started, despite the swelling which has to be contributing to weight. At the lightest weight I can remember since 2009ish.

Shortness of breath and fatigue mostly.

Post by **mac5155** » Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:52 pm

Went to the doc today. She said she's okay with my BP being a tad bit high since I'm losing weight and instead of changing up that med regimen she's putting me on ozempic to continue losing weight. Reevaluate in June. Feels like it's cheating but I'm hopeful it helps

Post by **robbiestoupe** » Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:10 pm

Oooo a designer drug. Nice!

Post by **faftorial** » Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:57 pm

mac5155 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:52 pm Went to the doc today. She said she's okay with my BP being a tad bit high since I'm losing weight and instead of changing up that med regimen she's putting me on ozempic to continue losing weight. Reevaluate in June. Feels like it's cheating but I'm hopeful it helps

Let us know your experience on the magic weight loss drug.

From what I understand it's basically an appetite suppressant.

Post by **mac5155** » Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:25 pm

Sounds like it just makes dieting a little easier. I haven't noticed anything yet. I'm still trying to stick to a 2500ish calorie diet.

Post by **faftorial** » Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:27 pm

mac5155 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:25 pm Sounds like it just makes dieting a little easier. I haven't noticed anything yet. I'm still trying to stick to a 2500ish calorie diet.

Right, you'll eat half a sandwich and feel full.

Post by **shafnutz05** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:27 pm

Pink eye in both eyes. Thankfully already have the antibiotic drops from our son having it earlier this week.

Post by **dodint** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:34 pm

Gotta change that pillowcase, mate.

Post by **faftorial** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:54 pm

Ozempic experience from reddit:

After starting the 0.5mg/week dose, this is where it all went downhill, fast. The side effects came on hard, fast and strong. If I ate more than say half a sandwich at a meal, I would become so overwhelmingly bloated that I was burping constantly (like literally two big burps every 3 minutes for hours). On top of that, at this point it made my burps smell and taste so ungodly disgusting (think straight sulfur plus an outhouse at a nascar race in summer at the end of race weekend).

Additionally, there were three times in a two week period that I became so bloated that it made me vomit - a lot; and I'm not exaggerating that it was complete projectile vomiting, out of my mouth and nose. It was an absolutely ungodly horrible experience.

As if those side effects weren't bad enough, it also gave me horrible, uncontrollable diarrhea that met the clinical definition of "severe". There were a few days where I couldn't leave the toilet for more than 10-15 minutes at a time. There was one night I fell asleep on the toilet, because I was so tired from getting up to RUN to the toilet to poo.

Post by **dodint** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:04 pm

Hard to projectile vomit if you've only eaten half a sandwich. My guess is that person was bingeing and is leaving that part out.

Post by **faftorial** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:39 pm

dodint wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:04 pm Hard to projectile vomit if you've only eaten half a sandwich. My guess is that person was bingeing and is leaving that part out.

Agreed.

Mac, don't overeat.

Post by **mac5155** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:38 pm

Day one and I'm already forcing myself to eat a little bit. I've probably consumed 600 calories today and have no appetite at all. A soft beef taco for lunch, a bowl of Greek yogurt with some PB powder, and a salad.

I'm kinda mad. I've gotten really good at making good food but keeping it low calorie with smart substitutions. I like food lol

Post by **robbiestoupe** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:23 pm

600 calories? That’s a bit extreme. 1600 maybe but I’d pass out from such low blood sugar at 600/day

Post by **skullman80** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:24 pm

600 calories a day is no bueno and borderline dangerous long term. At least drink some protein shakes if you are not hungry at all.

It’s weird they put you on ozempic when you were doing fine without it making smart food choices. I’m not a doctor though.

Post by **mac5155** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:45 pm

I was on Glipizide for my diabetes. She took me off that and replaced it with Ozempic. I've been pretty obese my whole life..

Post by **mac5155** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:47 pm

Also, I just ate dinner so at least doubled caloric intake for the day. It's just a pretty weird feeling. I'm sure my body will adjust.

Post by **skullman80** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:52 pm

Yeah not a doctor so not questioning it. Just seemed like in this thread you were doing good recently with food choices to lose weight so the switch to ozempic seemed a bit weird to me.

Especially if you are now only consuming 600 calories daily. Your body needs more than that …much more even when losing weight. It’s not like you are on my 600lb life or something lol.

Post by **mac5155** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 8:58 pm

No believe me I know. I'm just saying this is day 1 on it and it's a very weird feeling. I'm not trying to make a habit of this. But I forced myself to eat dinner.

I should also do a better job at tracking calories. I'm probably understating them.

Post by **skullman80** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:03 pm

Yeah underestimating is easy to do. I do it a lot. The only time I was able to not do it is when I was weighing everything.

In any event good luck and keep doing what your doing.

Post by **shafnutz05** » Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:18 am

skullman80 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:03 pm Yeah underestimating is easy to do. I do it a lot. The only time I was able to not do it is when I was weighing everything.

In any event good luck and keep doing what your doing.

Myfitnesspal was huge when I was going through my weight loss period

Post by **faftorial** » Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:25 pm

@mac5155, any updates on how your doing? Is the weight coming off yet.

Post by **mac5155** » Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:34 pm

About 2-3lbs give or take this week. Definitely felt like the shot worked for about 48 hours then didn't really notice much of a difference. Second shot tomorrow.

Post by **RonnieFranchise** » Fri May 03, 2024 6:56 pm

My Dad went into assisted living today. His Alzheimers had progressed to where Mom couldn't take care of him anymore, even with help coming in several days a week.

It's easy to be judgemental that and feel that she gave up on him, or feel like my sisters and I didn't do enough, although we offered to move them here, and my sister offered to move them near them in the Philly area but they wanted to stay where their friends are.

Mostly I feel bad for him.

Sigh.