Thank you to everyone that responded to my rantings and ravings yesterday. As you can imagine, it was a very tough & emotional day for me.
I spoke to my PC doc last night and basically the long story short is this: Surgery is on hold until we can get my thyroid levels where they need to be. This could honestly take anywhere from 6 week to 6 months if not more depending on how long it takes to find the right dosage of meds for me.
I am moving ahead, doing what I need to do. I have already had another round of bloodwork done and I am picking up my first round of meds today to try. 6 weeks from now I will do new bloodwork and see what the new meds show. If they don't do it, he will need to increase the dosage, and then I will again need to wait 6 weeks to take new bloodwork to check the levels. This will go on as long as it takes to get my TSH under 5. So you see how it could potentially take 6 months or more to get this all figured out.
In the meantime, I have decided to use this time as a continued learning experience. It's AMAZING how much I have learned in getting ready for this surgery as far as healthy eating, the importance of protein, the effect carbs has on us, etc. I have lost 7lbs in the last week just on the pre-op diet alone, and I don't plan to give that up. While I won't continue on only 600 calories a day now, I do plan to continue eating more healthy with smaller portions and see if I can make a difference in my weight "the old fashioned way" while I wait for this to all be straightened out. And who knows? By the time I am ready to reschedule, maybe I will have lost so much weight that I won't need the surgery anymore :) Wishful thinking I know, but I am and will always be a glass 1/2 full kind of gal!
Again, thank you for everyone's support and I hope that I can still be a part of all of you "WLS Bloggers" even with my WLS future so uncertain right now! I love everyone I have met and I would hate to lose you guys as part of my life!!!
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You know what? I just got finished reading another friend's blog - and she's sort of starting to figure out that there are a LOT of us that have had the surgery that now have thyroid problems. I'm one of them - and so is she... and honestly - our weight loss transformations haven't been as stellar as others that we've known. So there is something to be said about your thyroid!
Hang in there, and don't think for a second this makes anything different - you are still trying to lose weight, which is what we all set out to do - so you're every bit as big of a part of our community as you ever were. :-) Now we'll just support you in a different way.
thinking of you. your looking at this the correct way. im proud of you! do not let this get you down. time to take care of all of you and make the whole body healthy. i'm sorry for your let down. sometimes there is a reason and we just don't see it at the time. hugs and take care of you!
I think you have got am amazing great attitide towards this. So proud of you and of course you can still blog about WLS andbe part of it, as you are a prime example of how to deal with thigns that get your way or slow the process down. It is not always plain sailing and it is great that people who will come after you can read about it and know that they are not the only ones. You are fantastic!!!
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