Paradox

Isn't there some sort of saying that if you lose weight you'll feel better? Isn't the theory something about improved health? Okay, maybe my overall health has improved, but instead we have become very aware of problems under the surface who didn't feel like making any sort of trouble until the pounds started going the way of my desire for candy bars.

First, weird menses led me to a doctor where I found out I have numerous fibroids and possibly other problems. This upsets me because there are days that the side effects (pain, bleeding) make it impossible for me to exercise. Those days suck especially on the occasions when they happen two days in a row.

Yes. Surprising even myself, I have become very attached to my exercise.

Second, I a pain in my back near my shoulder has gotten progressively worse until I started having stiff, hot pain in my neck and throbbing from the base of my neck to the base of my skull. Research made me theorize it could be a pinched nerve so I had to demand back rubs from hubby. I hate to impose that on him daily, but it has improved the pain so I think we're almost to the point where I can just stretch and work it out.

Summer plans for swimming and hiking are, at the very least, mostly ruined. I'm sad. It sucks to work so hard and then feel betrayed by my body. Of course, I didn't treat it spectacularly up to this point so maybe I had it coming.