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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] "Don't you ever worry about your weight?" "Only keeping it up." "I hate you." I'd post pictures of how I looked in th ehospital right after they finally got me turned around, when I weiged 115lbs. and looked like an Auschwitz survivor. I couldn't eat for the ten months following because they didn't want to risk aggrivating the fistula, and IV nutrition can only do so much, I got up to about 150 and then couldn't get much higher. After I started eating again following my first surgery, prednisone munchies got me up to anout 200. And since I got off the steroids, it's tapered off to a comfortable ~185. Now I just need to tone that, especially the core that I haven't been able to work much during this whole thing. I've had several scares during this whole thing. When I was initially getting diagnosed back in '96, I was relieved again and again to learn it wasn't cancer, or HIV, or Hepatitis, or many, many other things. Getting the Crohn's diagnosis, though, was traumatic enough, and I spent the next decade(ish) depressed and in denial and not really managing it. Which led me to the second scare. All the water I was retaining and all the muscle mass I was losing... It was mysitfying and scary, and when I started having trouble breathing. It took me a month of trying to explain that I wasn't having touble breathing because of panic attacks -- I was panicking because I couldn't breathe. Not rocket science. After I almost drowned from the inside, they got it. Nothing like slowly starving for Oxygen and gradually blacking out and wondering if you'll ever wake up again to make you appreciate life. :rolleyes: Hopefully that's the last health scare I have personally. --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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