You will NEVER believe this one!

I weighed myself this week and I stayed the same!!!! I have lost a total of 71.4 pounds (32.39 kilograms) in 44 weeks.

Before you get all freaked out,let me share the events of the last 5 days and you will understand, possibly, why I did not lose this week. On Thursday, while at work, I started having some lower abdominal pains which I attributed to my need to use the bathroom. After "making a deposit," the pains went away. So clearly that was the cause...anyway, on Friday night, the pain came back but this time it was EXCRUCIATING and by Saturday I was in the fetal position on my living room floor, screaming for my husband to shoot me in the head! My husband originally thought it was band related so he called the Bariatric Surgeon, but the position of the pain was no where near the band. When I arrived at the Emergency Room, the doctors thought it was kidney stones, but that was soon ruled out. While they were waiting for their tests, they pumped me with a variety of narcotics to relieve the pain. Thankfully it went away, but I was scared as to what the heck was wrong with me. After CAT SCANS, and ultrasounds, may I add that this ultrasound was both external and internal and the internal one was 40 minutes long with a probe the size of THE BIGGEST, TALLEST, BLACK MAN'S PENIS YOU COULD POSSIBLY IMAGINE EXISTED!! AWFUL experience! It came back that I have large ovarian cysts on my ovaries. They gave me more pain meds and sent me home Saturday. They wanted me to go to a gynecologist on Monday to follow up with those cysts to see if they needed to be surgically removed.

So now it is Sunday, and I am home, and I am not sure if you know this but pain medicines, specifically narcotics, can cause serious constipation. So my tummy starts to bother me again but it ws in a different spot. The pain Saturday, was more over my ovaries, this time it was higher like near my intestines. So I am thinking, wow, I am really constipated. So I try and deal with it. I am up ALL NIGHT long, in pain, trying to use the bathroom but nothing is working. I am seriously freaked out at this point. Frank takes me to my gynecology appointment at the hospital on Monday and I am once again probed and prodded by 4 different doctors. I seriously think everyone in that hospital stuck their fingers up my vagina that day, except of course FRANK! LOL...The team of gynecologists which included a very young medical student and three doctors wanted to rule out "ovarian torsion," which is when the ovaries twist around the cyst. If this is the case, I need emergency surgery for removal. So they were sending me out patient back to ultrasound. However, on the way out, I got dizzy, almost fainted and my blood pressure spiked really high. So they admitted me back into the ER, where I stayed for 10 hours. This turned out to be 10 hours with out food or water just an IV pumping me with fluids. The diagnosis this time was NOT "ovarian torsion" rather good old constipation, caused by all the pain medicines they gave me on SATURDAY! Also the agonizing pain on Saturday was caused because I was ovulating and one of the cysts is very large. I have to keep an eye on these cysts to make sure they do not get any larger, and after I have children, they recommend their removal. Bottom line, I still have not emptied my bowels and I was pumped with soooo much fluid,the fact that I stayed the same this week is a true miracle! Anyway, thanks for reading! Hopefully, by next week, my bowels will have empotied and I will be back on track!