Hurting

 Still hurting.  Got a doctor appointment on the 27th.  I don't know.  Also have mammogram.  
Dedicated in spirit to Tina (miss you, hun!)

Sleep is hard, when moving wrong sends spikes of pain through the hip.  Been a long two months. 
I hadn't hurt my hip at my last post, or I would have mentioned it.  So probably did it on either the 28th or 29th of March.  
Who injures themselves doing physical therapy????

The difference two years makes

I weighed myself this morning.  174.4lbs  Two years ago, I would have been overjoyed at this.  10 pounds less than what I weighed at that point.  But, less than half a year ago, I was under 170.  

I haven't really been able to go out walking, because my back hurts too much.  I did yard work yesterday.  Wound up with like 12K steps.  With that, and all the bending, raking, and lifting... my back feels like someone is shoving a knife through my spine.  Not happy making.  

Of course, I keep forgetting to take any painkiller.  The memory thing isn't just for trivia.  

My scale seems disappointed in me.  It's biometric, so shows all the fun stuff like muscle/fat/protein/etc.

Or maybe I'm just disappointed in me.  I'm not gonna let it dusty my shiny.  I will keep doing my best to be the healthiest me I can be.  

HUGS

Not much

 Not much has happened.  I'm hovering at about 170 pounds.  My sugars are doing ok.  I've been in pain since my back went out.  I lose track of when that was.  So my heart rate and blood pressure have been high.  I've been very bad about watching it.  

I did take a walk this morning.  It's been unseasonably warm.  I think it got to 70 today.  

I've got a cold.  And feel like crap.

Just a random-ness

 Had another "ozempic moment", which is how I'm now referring to the nausea and vomiting caused by my ozempic.  

It's kinda getting old.  Not sure what to do.  I should talk to my doctor, but kinda don't wanna.  Since I did tell her that it was getting worse.  I might change doctors, even.  Sigh.  She seems good.  But I've heard less than positive things, now.  

I am down to about 170 pounds.  Which is super close to changing me from being 'obese' to just 'over-weight'.  I think another 3 pounds or so.  

Took a nice long walk on Thursday.  That was nice.  

Debating with myself about adding a B complex vitamin.  I'm usually tired.  And according to a med interaction thing I read one of my meds interferes with B absorption.  B are the energy vitamins.  Just refreshed my info.  B12 and folic acid.  Possibly a Coenzyme Q10.

We'll see what I do.  

I do know I am super tired of throwing up. 

Ozempic - my frenemy

 Ah, Ozempic.

I love how it controls my sugar and is helping me lose weight, too.

I HATE how if I eat the wrong thing, VOMIT.

I'm now consistently down in the 170s.  I have dipped into high 160s.  But this vomiting thing SUCKS.

2024 Physical updates

 My 2024 physical went well.  My A1c basically stayed the same.  Which, since I really wasn't doing much different, means that I am doing pretty good.  The number is 6.2, for those who wonder.  

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Looking at results.  My "mean corpuscular volume" numbers are slowly trending down.  Still in 'normal' range, but within 2 points of being low.  I don't know what that means, but I will look it up.  

Looks like some liver stuff is going on, just going by my test numbers.  Yay.  

But I won't worry about it.  

My cholesterol is actually good.  triglycerides are a bit higher than ideal, but half of what they were two years ago.  Everything else is solidly in 'normal'  :D

"Officially" at 79.8kg.  But that's after eating and wearing jeans.  My scale had me at 79.5kg, before breakfast.  So, definitely under that 80kg.  

LOL
In normal terms, I'm down to 175.9 lbs.  After eating and while wearing jeans.  My skivvies weight is 174.2 lbs.  Either way, down 2ish pounds since April.  

I do still do some walking.  But I'm tired.  Just... tired.

A year plus after ozempic

 So, from my last blog, I mentioned a 'disastrous encounter with a zinger'.

Turns out, it's the ozempic.  It's made me sensitive to several things.  Too much sugar, I will throw up or at least feel like I'm gonna.  The scent of several things now makes me queasy.  Lots of things I used to love, now are gross.  Lots of sausage varieties make me queasy.  I used to not care for fish sticks.  Now the idea of putting one into my mouth, I just gag.  Can't do it.  I tried.  

I'm not being very consistent with walking.  

Now, I'm gonna go throw up now.