FitOKay's Journal, 09 May 2014

I DON'T HAVE A HERNIA! lol! Very nice to know =) I had the pain turn more acute last evening and went into Urgent Care, who sent me over to the ER instead (which is where I did not want to be, but what can you do). Turns out there is nothing wrong with the place I am feeling the pain, but I have a pretty large ovarian cyst on my left ovary. Once the idea of a cyst was mentioned I realized that is exactly what the pain feels like. Even to the pressure helping (because it steadies the muscles and keeps the cyst from being jostled as badly when laughing/coughing/moving). Don't know why I am feeling it where I am, that's still where the pain is and the area that should hurt feels fine. Apparently our brains get mixed up sometime on where exactly a sensation is coming from. So I wasn't connecting the pain with ovarian cyst because it was in the wrong place. Good to know what it is.

Also means I can bike all I want- as biking won't actually harm the cyst except as much as the jostling it hurts and bothers me. So some ibuprofen and I'll be fine. I am always amazed at how much pain medication they try to shove down your throat at the ER or doctors anytime you have something that may cause pain. Don't get me wrong, ovarian cysts hurt like the devil, but it's not something I can't deal with. I know that my back having the messed up nerves (which are unresponsive to pain medication, even injected morphine, because of the location to the damage and the spine) making me always feel like I'm in pain makes my pain tolerance a little different. I think they are use to people being in much more pain from large cysts, rather then just using the pain and location to register if this is a serious thing or just a let it be thing. Still, they kept asking if I needed pain meds (one doctor said, very cheerfully, 'We have more pain meds then you have pain!' -I kid you not), asked if I was sure I was only 'uncomfortable' (especially after they got the imaging back showing the cyst) and then tried to write a script anyways 'just in case'.

I've only thrice in my life been in enough pain that I wanted more then ibuprofen or tylenol. Once was my ankle breaking (self explanatory), one was a double kidney infection (that hurt worse then childbirth, I'm not even joking), and once when the nerves on my back went crazy and locked up the muscle around my left lung in the process (not fun, very painful and no pain medication had any effect).

Anyways, yay for not being a hernia. Cyst normally go away on their own. Have a follow up to make sure, if the pain worsens need to go back in to make sure it's not torquing the ovary (which can be very painful and kill the ovary).

Down .2lbs today. My appetite finally returned to a more normal amount yesterday to. Hopefully stays that way today =p

My best friend and I are taking my boys and one of her girls (the older one, the youngest is 2 and we weren't sure how she'd do, so she's staying with her Nana) and we are going to a circus that's in town. I was trying to get my husband to go, but he hates circuses, so this was a good solution =)

Happy Friday Everyone!
153.0 lb Lost so far: 21.0 lb.    Still to go: 34.0 lb.    Diet followed reasonably well.

Diet Calendar Entries for 09 May 2014:
1466 kcal Fat: 30.38g | Prot: 82.99g | Carb: 233.40g.   Breakfast: Driscoll's Strawberries, Nature's Promise Organic Wildflower Honey, Ovaltine Classic Malt Mix, Hy-Vee 1% Lowfat Milk. Lunch: Simply Orange 100% Pure Orange Juice, Onions, Lettuce, Kraft Light Mayonnaise, oscar mayer turkey cotto salami, Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Meijer Deluxe American Cheese Slices. Dinner: 100% Pure Orange Juice, Lettuce, Kraft Light Mayonnaise, oscar mayer turkey cotto salami, Nature's Own 100% Whole Wheat Bread. Snacks/Other: Organic Wildflower Honey, Cottage Cheese (Lowfat 1% Milkfat), Ovaltine Classic Malt Mix, Hy-Vee 1% Lowfat Milk. more...
1800 kcal Activities & Exercise: Bicycling (leisurely) - <10/mph - 30 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 30 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
losing 1.4 lb a week

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***MORNING PEAK FLOW 400*** So off to do a neb and hop on the bike. 
09 May 14 by member: FitOKay
i am glad for you... 
09 May 14 by member: puhpine
That's good news! 
09 May 14 by member: madanjen
Thanks puhpine! Very good news Madanjen =) 
09 May 14 by member: FitOKay
Happy for you! 
09 May 14 by member: sohck
That's definitely good news that it's not a hernia! :) Yeah, some pains will trick us very well. I've had kidney stone in the past and I would feel pain in places that would leave me clueless about what it was. I even thought it was lung related at some point heheh. I think that pain is sometimes a "headache" for doctors in terms of diagnosing because of that heheh. Ahahah! I want that doctor who said that! I really have an aversion to pain so we would definitely be on the same page there lol ;) although I realize that pain-killers are far from being harmless drugs :P I wouldn't want to have experienced the pain you've experienced in those occasions, that's for sure! I hope you have fun at the circus and I wish you the most pain-free days possible ahead!  
10 May 14 by member: euheide
The whole concept is interesting. I know logically that it can happen, but you still expect if your belly button range hurts the issue is there. Even being able to recognize the feeling itself was not enough because it was in the wrong location. Very interesting phenomenon, and I'm sure you are right about pain generally being a headache for doctors. My Mom and sister are like you and can't handle pain. My dad and I both seem to be able to handle pain to the point of not knowing when something switches from 'uncomfortable' to omg go see a doctor, lol. We've had to learn yo watch for a sudden increase in discomfort to know when something turns acute. That night my hubby joked that we were seeing the opposite of doctors dealing with drug seekers. As much as they will try to limit pain meds if they think you are seeking, they seem equally uncomfortable with someone who should be asking for pain help who isn't. We as humans have our 'normals' and it always concerns us if someone deviates. 
10 May 14 by member: FitOKay
Ahahah I never thought about that (doctors working with reverse psychology) but, now that you mention it, I think it's true! lol :)) Your theory makes sense! I definitely think that's the case. :) Regarding my approach to pain, I remember even keeping a box of painkillers in my bedroom and one pill in my wallet, even after the kidney stones were long gone lol, such was the "trauma" heheheh. I eventually disposed of them when I found out you shouldn't keep pills at hot temperatures and that, by then, they would possibly not be in the best conditions :) 
10 May 14 by member: euheide

     
 

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