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TERI23
TERI23

Been on 15mg since January 23 and am try so hard to stay on it until Feb.23 and then go down to 12.5, but have gained 2 pounds and am on a diet(very discouraging) and now have developed the old moon face my cheeks look like a chipmunk. I have a had time recognizing the person in the mirror. Does anyone out there think it would be ok to go down now.I need encouragement. Help 

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  • TERI23
    TERI23

    Posted

    Thanks guys don't know what I would do without you all moonface and all I will wait for my month to go by before going down after all it's just more of me to love
    • pat38625
      pat38625 TERI23

      Posted

      That's the spirit Teri, love actually comes from the inside and not necessary the outside.  And you are right there is just a chubbier person on the outside and a thinner one on the inside, just love them both.  
  • teenyjeeny
    teenyjeeny TERI23

    Posted

    Hi Teri and all my other PMR friends out there, just go with the flo Teri as they are telling you its a small price to pay having a moon face and extra weight, think positive I know thats very hard . I have been very tearful these last two weeks  as I now have to have  and ICD fitted as i have heart failure. I had a heart attack 10 years ago and have been fine but due to extra stess from waiting for a hernia op and a bad flare up of Pmr my heart is not working properly. I have said before I have had pmr for 14 years now ,I have had some good times  where it has settled then different things set it off again, I sadly have put on  3stone in the last year a nightmare . I hate it. but I know when this flare up goes away I will loose some weight. Now I have been diagnosed with steroid induced diabetes another

    nightmare. and I get very upset  then I read about others worse than me and  I guess we all have to support each other   put a brave face on  and unfortunatly learn to live with it hard as that is . so chins up all us moon faces  and tomorrow will bring better things at least we are alive. xx

    • TERI23
      TERI23 teenyjeeny

      Posted

      You my friend will be in my prayers as well as all of us who suffer from PMR lets all keep the faith we will persevere
    • pat38625
      pat38625 teenyjeeny

      Posted

      Hi teenyjeeny, I am so sorry that you have many health issues but my God you have got so much spirit.  You are right, we are Blessed, we are breathing today.  

      All the very best for your health.

  • pat38625
    pat38625 TERI23

    Posted

    I think I said last night that I would check in with my weight.  Well I stuck to the  slimming plan 150% and didn't lose as much as 1 ounce.  But I will not be defeated.  I just gotta keep on trying.  Truth to be told, I actually couldn't eat any less.  Patconfused
    • EileenH
      EileenH pat38625

      Posted

      It may well be you are not eating ENOUGH! It may sound crackers but if you eat too little your body goes into starvation mode and hangs onto all your fat "just in case". 
    • tina-uk_cwall
      tina-uk_cwall pat38625

      Posted

      Hi pat, what a nuisance, if it's any consolation I didn't lose  so much as an ounce last week either. Boo hoo! I'll let you know how much I lost in total for my first month of dieting next week. Christina 
    • pat38625
      pat38625 EileenH

      Posted

      Thanks Eileen, I know.  If the body isn't getting enough food it will go in to a famine state and hold on the fat.  I have tried for over 10 years to lose weight.  I have gone private have attended Endocrinology, have had a personal trainer who in the end asked my permission to ring my doctor.  I had to do a food diary each week and I seen the PT 3 times a week and she put me through my paces and I was burning up to 540 cals in 1 hour.  I lost about 7lb and then stopped.  I have listened to every platitude, eat little and often, you can survive on 1 meal a day (a hospital consultant told me this off the record) don't eat after six, cut out diary, cut out wheat.  

      People are well intentioned I know, but it does become tiresome.  When the personal trainer looked at my food diaries and she never left my side putting me through every kind of exercise, she said that whatever was happening, was happening on the inside.  I cried, because now someone else was aware of the problem.  She did speak to my dr who re referred me to Endocrinolgy.  I was discharged last year.  Everything is showing normal.  My skin is paper thin, my hair is thin.  I have many symptoms that would look like underactive thyroid, but my bloods show it is slap bang in the middle.  Alas and Alac just gotta get on with it.  But thanks anyway.    Pat

    • pat38625
      pat38625 tina-uk_cwall

      Posted

      Hi Christina, well just look at the pair of us  boo hoo boo hoo indeed.  Just gotta keep on going girl.  I will not give up or give in.      Pat
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