Melting again and it feels good - mostly
SW: 344
CW: 303
-5 lbs
I'm gradually recovering. I feel mostly like an idiot because I didn't scrutinize the labels on my medications. Ephedra (the active ingredient in Sudafed, which I have been downing like no tomorrow) multiples the effect of thyroid medication, and this has kept me utterly sleepless once the Sudafed built up in my system - sort of like amphetamine (except that amphetamine made me feel sleepy.) It has been gradually lessening because the minute I read the package (Do not take if you have thyroid disease)I felt like the idiot I truly am.
But in all this crisis and blowing my nose and sitting up late at night feeling wretched, I have also lost weight and more importantly, my 2x pants fit again, just in time for my trip back to Minnesota where I'll need wooly things to keep warm. They are having a mild winter (like here, actually) so utterly unlike 2009, the winter that kept snowing and never stopped: the winter I was so crippled and in so much pain. I would not live through that winter again if you paid me - the winter of Snowmageddon.
Back to see Dr. Nguyen on Sunday for followup on the sinusitis - she may have a result from the Epstein-Barr test for my adenopathy, and the throat culture (I was on antibiotics anyway so if it is strep she'll probably just extend the prescription.)
I spent so much money on clothes last spring (several hundred dollars) to anchor myself to size 18 dresses and tops and a whole bunch of capri pants and suits by mail order while I was in Idaho... and they've been sitting in the drawer: mocking me. Goading me into going back to counting sodium.
I had a shock at Safeway today: the 'cheap' multi-pack chicken has 175 mg sodium per serving. It's cheap because they inject it with saline. And this is why I went from 279 to 324 again in what seemed like a flash: eating their goddamned salt-water chicken.