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I woke up twice last night with heartburn. I’m really tired, but thankfully we have a week off next week and maybe I can get some rest. The awaking is really getting to me.

Also the teeth thing is getting to me. I am convinced the reason I’ve been having so many dental problems is the acid in my mouth, combined with blood sugar problem.

Yes — I’m writting down why I need this surgery so I don’t chicken out.

Of course, I don’t know yet, if the doctor wants to do it. The first time I saw a surgeon for my carpel tunnel — he didn’t want to do it. I’m glad now — because I ended up with a hand specialist who did an excellent job.

Hopefully I still have the comments working. The Spambots found me again.

I’ve lost two more pounds which I didn’t really think would happen this week because my appetite was almost out of control this weekend. Also my insulin level was higher, because most of what I was craving was high in carbs.

I feel really good about the weight loss I’ve experienced so far on the Symlin, because it is fairly slow — 2 pounds in a week is a lot for me, but I can definately say that starvation was not involved this time.

Also, the changes I’ve made in my life are definately sustainable.

I’ve been meeting some other goals — last night I was able to do 30 minutes on the treadmill without stopping. And it was at 2.7 mph.

I’ve been having to break up workouts due to either leg or foot pain, and will often do as little as 2 1/2 minutes at a time to get a workout down — In fact did that on Saturday, but primarily because I was trying to increase my speed to 3.0.

I’m off all next week, so in addition to getting all my medical issues dealt with — I’m seeing the surgeon, my CDE, and getting a Depo shot, I’m going to try to double my cardio workouts.

I see the surgeon next week.

I ran the following past my principal and he was cool with it — I’m seeing a surgeon next week and I am planning to get an operation over the break, is it okay with you, if I do it exam week — that will give me an extra week to recover. He said he was sure he could get anyone to give a test. I do need to spend some time and come up with a decent exam for the ELI kiddos,

I’ve also run this past the husband.

Here’s the deal. Every time I work out, I have problems with heartburn. Almost every single night it wakes me up. It’s not as bad as it was with the expired Nexxium — that was the utter worse I’ve seen in ages. But I am still waking up. Most of the time I can roll over and go back to sleep but a lot of times I go ahead and get up, or have to get up and deal with it.

I was having chest pains after lunch today. I’m 99% sure it was GERD. This is really sucking.

Basically, the last time I was able to get rid of the GERD sympthoms, I was on Propulsid (sp), and had lost about 50 more pounds than I’ve lost so far. Well, the Propulsid isn’t available, and it’s going to be another year before I see 50 more pounds.

Sigh.

Well, at least I have my ducks in a row.

I see the surgeon next week.

I ran the following past my principal and he was cool with it — I’m seeing a surgeon next week and I am planning to get an operation over the break, is it okay with you, if I do it exam week — that will give me an extra week to recover. He said he was sure he could get anyone to give a test. I do need to spend some time and come up with a decent exam for the ELI kiddos,

I’ve also run this past the husband.

Here’s the deal. Every time I work out, I have problems with heartburn. Almost every single night it wakes me up. It’s not as bad as it was with the expired Nexxium — that was the utter worse I’ve seen in ages. But I am still waking up. Most of the time I can roll over and go back to sleep but a lot of times I go ahead and get up, or have to get up and deal with it.

I was having chest pains after lunch today. I’m 99% sure it was GERD. This is really sucking.

Basically, the last time I was able to get rid of the GERD sympthoms, I was on Propulsid (sp), and had lost about 50 more pounds than I’ve lost so far. Well, the Propulsid isn’t available, and it’s going to be another year before I see 50 more pounds.

Sigh.

Well, at least I have my ducks in a row.