I can tell I'm getting older by the amount of pills I take and how *essential* it is that I eat plenty of fiber. My mom worked for years at a gastroenterologist (butts and guts dr) and used to joke how old people are so worried about things like bowels. Now I don't think its funny cuz I do it too (but then again after I had my surgery i'd go sometimes 5 days without one and it freaked me out...)

anyway, the pills are getting ridiculous. Birth control, sometimes sudafed (thanks to the worst air quality in the WORLD here), iron (due from gastric bypass), vitamin D/calcium, and now align. (for above issue) For fucks sake. I need to start driving with my seat so far up i can practically rest my chin in the steering wheel and start using coupons. Oh wait.. I do that too. Fuck!

I'm getting to the point where I don't care what I am wearing when I need to go out to the store...soon I will be embarrassing my kids in pubic. It's going to rule.

Frisky just be glad you're alive. Someone else I once knew well lost a great deal of weight and it changed her personality. Then she gained it back and went back to being a weeping doormat. Then she found a lump in her breast and had both of them removed. Then she had cysts so she had a hysterectomy. All this happened in the span of three years.

Now she sits around complaining that she's no longer a woman. I was long gone by then.

So count your blessings, huh?

I'm getting to the point where I don't care what I am wearing when I need to go out to the store...soon I will be embarrassing my kids in pubic. It's going to rule.

wait, you don't do that already?

I was just thinking how I've been glad I had the surgery.. but holy fuck, I'm having a lot of health issues from it. had the gallbladder removed, after god awful attacks, now its causing something to go awry in my liver (go figure, IM the one with liver problems), anemia, low vitamin d, and as if my metabolism wasn't fucked up enough, its made it worse. I basically became anorexic for a year and now it takes me a month to lose a pound. Not to mention that ive put on 50 pounds from my lowest weight, despite my healthier eating habits, and just the mere shock of watching myself wilt away.. dont know who that person is in the mirror (not that I ever did....). Sigh. 6 years later I say I regret it.

And zoomie ive always had that feeling.. not quite a woman.. in addition to all the above health problems to add the irregular cycle.. swear to god i can go 6 months without it, and 99% sure I have pcos but no doctor will officially admit to it.. never ever been pregnant (blessing.. but still.. come on! I was in a serious relationship for five years! never once!) and pretty sure i have add/adhd, learning disabilities, depression.. oh can the list get longer.. probably.. throw in some ptsd.. am i done yet..?!

and daisy me too, ive never given a shit about fashion but i might switch to elastic jeans.. maybe some turtle necks.. nursing shoes? sure.. why not..

I already knew most of that about you.

I already knew most of that about you.

well im learning about it and its freakin me out..

dr phil helllllllppp

I get raging hemorrhoids every six months. I mean, these are so painful I absolutely CANNOT sit down straight because it's bulging the size of an acorn. I should probably go to the doctor and have it surgically removed, but my boss had that done and said it was the most painful thing in his life. (He's only 32 too). Hemorrhoids aren't only for old people or pregnant women!

So I eat these fiber choice things to help loosen el stoolo.

Don't they have those little towelettes at HEB?  The HEB brand, of course!  Those, and the Preparation-H cream are (supposedly) All That.

i've heard that older ladies use Prep-H around their eyes to shrink the bags, but that could be Urban Legend

I get raging hemorrhoids every six months. I mean, these are so painful I absolutely CANNOT sit down straight because it's bulging the size of an acorn. I should probably go to the doctor and have it surgically removed, but my boss had that done and said it was the most painful thing in his life. (He's only 32 too). Hemorrhoids aren't only for old people or pregnant women!

So I eat these fiber choice things to help loosen el stoolo.

Here, this sounds like fun...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_band_ligation

Every time I get to thinking I know more about Kyle than I wish to know, he comes through for me.

Thanks pal.

Every time I get to thinking I know more about Kyle than I wish to know, he comes through for me.

Thanks pal.

Guh, all these health issues with youngens. I don't get it. My childhood 'friend' who is only a year or two younger than me, so barely 30 was just diagnosed with breast cancer. WHAT THE FUCK!

Life is a chance happening and we all play the hand we are dealt. I am in Stage 4 renal failure. Next stop, kidney transplant.

Here, this sounds like fun...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_band_ligation

That's also how to make steers out of bulls ~ a rubberband around the testicles, cuts off the blood flow, so they die and shrivel off.

This thread is depressing.  I have been having severe pelvic pain for the last two weeks, (I talked about it in another thread).  I went to the doctor and she had no idea what it was so I made an appointment with an obgyn and I am scheduled for the 25th of october.  rad.

I think I'm peri-menopausal. Which pretty much sucks with the hot flashes and the night sweats and the heavy bleeding.

I tried getting pregnant earlier this year, but obviously it was a no-go.

Daisy I strongly suggest you go to ST and ask Dr Mengele. He seems to have a cure for that sort of thing, just don't tell him you have brown eyes.

What is ST?

subliminal thoughts. EA's forum.

It isn`t depressing, Sasha. It is just life.

It isn`t depressing, Sasha. It is just life.

no its depressing

I think I'm peri-menopausal. Which pretty much sucks with the hot flashes and the night sweats and the heavy bleeding.

I tried getting pregnant earlier this year, but obviously it was a no-go.

Risky! No trisomy-21 worries?

I'm only 36...

I'm very healthy and not worried.

It's just that I was a late bloomer (nearly 15 before my first period) and am following in my grandmother's footsteps. She was also a late bloomer and went through menopause in her late 30's. This is kind of my last chance before the store closes...

I do have 2 healthy kids already, so it's not a tragedy if it doesn't happen.

15 isn't late for periods, is it?
I have two friends that still haven't started.
Both are nearly 17.

17 is really late.
http://womens-health.health-cares.net/menstruation-age.php

I'll add to the woe-is-me health thread...

I have horrible allergies. I had sinus surgery at 13 so they could clear out my sinuses. I started taking allergy shots at 15 and that seemed to make everything much better. I get sinus infections about 1 or 2 times a year now.

Also, I have fucking horrible acid reflux. I've been to the ER 3 times because I had food stuck in my throat, that I literally couldn't get out at all. It was due to my throat being inflamed. I supposedly have a hiatal hernia too. It's a real pain the ass too b/c I love tomatoes, alcohol, caffeine, chocolate, all the bad shit that is horrible for acid reflux. I haven't cut back on any of these either. blah. I take medication for it, started a new one a month ago. I think I need to take it before dinner instead of before lunch because I've still been waking up with some burning in my thoat lately.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if I end up having esophageal cancer at a later age. I really hope that this doesn't happen though...

17 is really late.
http://womens-health.health-cares.net/menstruation-age.php

Oh wow, okay.

Girls start menstruating at the average age of 12.

This is good to know. My mother started at like 14 or so.
She thinks it weird I started after just turning 11.

I'll add to the woe-is-me health thread...

I have horrible allergies. I had sinus surgery at 13 so they could clear out my sinuses. I started taking allergy shots at 15 and that seemed to make everything much better. I get sinus infections about 1 or 2 times a year now.

Also, I have fucking horrible acid reflux. I've been to the ER 3 times because I had food stuck in my throat, that I literally couldn't get out at all. It was due to my throat being inflamed. I supposedly have a hiatal hernia too. It's a real pain the ass too b/c I love tomatoes, alcohol, caffeine, chocolate, all the bad shit that is horrible for acid reflux. I haven't cut back on any of these either. blah. I take medication for it, started a new one a month ago. I think I need to take it before dinner instead of before lunch because I've still been waking up with some burning in my thoat lately.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if I end up having esophageal cancer at a later age. I really hope that this doesn't happen though...

My mom had exactly the same problems.  And she ended up with esophageal cancer in her mid 50s.  They caught it early because she had her esophagus scoped once a year to monitor for changes in the cellular structure.

Fuck. Does it run in your family?

No one in my family has had cancer but they all have acid reflux badly.

I think I should absolutely cut out all the acidic foods and beverages.