I have a question to ask about weight loss that can only be answered by a fellow fattie. This is not centered around tips for weight loss but more the effects of weight loss on the fat body. I'm not sure where to post this so I thought I'd try here.
A friend of mine had life saving WLS and when I saw her after the sugery she was walking with a cane. She'd lost weight but seemed to be in such wretched pain, worse than what she experienced before the surgery. I asked her about it and she said bitterly that the doctors told her that this is common but that it goes away eventually. It did and she's fine now.
Okay so I'm making this about me. I started using a CPAP last year and was feeling better for a while. Then later in the year I started having problems with pain. I was achy all the time, I had pains that I never had before. At first I was angry. I thought this danged CPAP was supposed to make me feel better? I did in other ways so I just thought the pain was because I was getting fat and old. Then when I went for my annual physical I discovered I had lost close to 30 pounds. I hadn't even been trying, in fact the way I was living I fully expected to weigh at least 6 or 7 pounds heavier than the last time I was weighed. So I guess it's true that one of the side effects of using CPAP is weight loss.
Anyway, I wondered what other experiences with weight loss has been. Is it common to have issues with pain when you're losing? I'm having the same kind of pain now and my mouth tastes like tin which seems to me to indicate weight loss. Am I on to something? I could probably just go get on a scale but I don't own one and the usual hodge podge of scales don't go up to my weight.
A friend of mine had life saving WLS and when I saw her after the sugery she was walking with a cane. She'd lost weight but seemed to be in such wretched pain, worse than what she experienced before the surgery. I asked her about it and she said bitterly that the doctors told her that this is common but that it goes away eventually. It did and she's fine now.
Okay so I'm making this about me. I started using a CPAP last year and was feeling better for a while. Then later in the year I started having problems with pain. I was achy all the time, I had pains that I never had before. At first I was angry. I thought this danged CPAP was supposed to make me feel better? I did in other ways so I just thought the pain was because I was getting fat and old. Then when I went for my annual physical I discovered I had lost close to 30 pounds. I hadn't even been trying, in fact the way I was living I fully expected to weigh at least 6 or 7 pounds heavier than the last time I was weighed. So I guess it's true that one of the side effects of using CPAP is weight loss.
Anyway, I wondered what other experiences with weight loss has been. Is it common to have issues with pain when you're losing? I'm having the same kind of pain now and my mouth tastes like tin which seems to me to indicate weight loss. Am I on to something? I could probably just go get on a scale but I don't own one and the usual hodge podge of scales don't go up to my weight.
