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I lost a few pounds

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Hey, I think I lost some weight. Remember I said that I’d gained a little bit of weight lately due to being so sick and not moving around as much? Yes, thank you Crohn’s disease – not.

I don’t weigh myself. One of my doctors weighs me regularly and that’s enough for me. I’ve always had a fear of the scales – even when I was a major bean pole.

I have noticed over the last week or so that my pants and other clothing seems loser. So yeah, I’ll take that as proof that I’ve lost a bit of weight.

I don’t eat much thanks to the Crohn’s disease. Inactivity is my main problem since I feel so awful most of the time. I guess I have been more active over the last few weeks thanks to Spring having arrived. I’ve been out in the garden tidying it up and walking the dog a little more often. It must be working.

I want to be back in shape by the time the hot weather gets here. Heck, I even considered trying Orovo but I’m not much for taking pills to boost my energy. Its the pain that’s the real problem. If I could get rid of that I’d be back to my old self in no time at all.

Anyone else trying to lose a few pounds by dieting or increasing your activity levels?





How to get a better sleep?

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Considering that I’ve been having so much trouble sleeping lately I’ve tried to come up with some ideas that will help me sleep better.

Now, unlike a lot of people that have trouble sleeping I also have a chronic disease that causes me pain – especially in the evenings. It’s Crohn’s disease and it seems once I have a couple of meals in me my pain only increases – hence the more pain at night thing.

I can’t do anything about eating as I’ve got to eat if I want to live, but I can try to manage my pain better.

We have a dog so taking her out for long walks at least once a day if not twice a day should help me get some exercise and that should help tire me out.

I have a lot of websites and I tend to work on them pretty much all the time. I think that from now on I should turn the computer off by midnight if not earlier. That will give my mind some time to settle down.

Now one cool thing that I could get that might help me sleep would be a massage chair. Eh? Wouldn’t that be great? I could sit in it and have a massage shortly before bedtime and maybe, just maybe I’d get a better sleep.

Do you have any other ideas that might help me get some sleep?

Crohns and Endometriosis getting worse

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Chris and I went to see our family doctor yesterday. That was the first time we’d been there since last October.

It seems like it was a very long time since our last visit to the doctor. That’s probably because when my Crohn’s started acting up two years ago there was a time when I was seeing my family doctor just about every week! Chris also had some health problems around that time too and he was a frequent visitor as well.

I’m still sick, of course, but this visit was mainly just a check up and to get refills for my prescriptions.

Along with Crohns I’ve also got Endometriosis and my periods have been becoming much more painful lately. So I mentioned this to my doctor and she suggested I try going on Depro-Provera. I think I’m going to try it.

I’m still hoping I’ll get pregnant at some point (soon), but I can’t take this pain. I swear during my last two periods I was in so much pain that I seriously thought of getting a hysterectomy! That certainly won’t help me get pregnant! So I guess I’ll try the Depro for three to six months and see if that helps my endo. Perhaps once my pain is down (it might help my crohns too because I might have some endo on my bowels) I’ll have more luck trying to have a baby.

Do you suffer from endometriosis? If you do, what have you done to relieve the symptoms?

Time to get in shape

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Back in September Chris and I went shopping for some exercise equipment. I had wanted to get in a little better shape before my trip to Las Vegas last November.

I actually bought a lot of stuff. A balance ball, a Pilates DVD, an elliptical machine and some stretchy band type exercise equipment. I honestly can’t remember the proper name for the last stuff. I guess it’s resistance training equipment?

Anyway. My Crohn’s was acting up very badly last fall and while I did get on the elliptical several times I can’t say that it did much good or that I was able to put all that much effort into it. My Crohn’s has actually been quite bad even through the winter so getting into a routine never happened.

Oh and we got a puppy at the end of November too. Heck, even my blogging slowed down because of her arrival!

Now that our puppy is almost 7 months old and is able to entertain herself a little bit I think I can try to get back to using the elliptical again. Of course, spring and nice weather will soon arrive too so I’ll be taking longer walks with our dog too. Getting back to exercising and taking longer walks should help me get back into shape. I hope!

Have you purchased exercise equipment and then for some reason or another ended up not using it as much as you thought you would? I know I’ve done that a few times in the past with health club memberships!

My knees don’t like this cold weather

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Oh my aching knees!

The weather here in Toronto has been strange this month. January began with a major snow storm, then it warmed up, so much so it seemed very spring like, and then in the last week it’s been like living in the Arctic.

I must be getting older because I’m feeling all these weather changes. Especially when it’s really cold outside. Ok it’s not really aging. I have Crohns disease and it can affect your joints too. I’m sure that’s what it is.

If I’ve been sitting for a while and then have to get up to go upstairs to use the washroom my knees protest. Walking up the stairs really hurts. Of course by the time I’ve been moving around for a little bit knees usually start to feel a bit better, but those first few minutes are bad.

My mom had a bad back and bad knees too. As her pain got worse we started to worry about her walking up and down the stairs. Luckily my parents had set up their home so that they didn’t have to go up and down the stairs all that often, but of course the freezer was in the basement so there would be occasional trips downstairs to get things out of the freezer.

When my father passed away we worried about my mom even more. She got around pretty well – especially when she didn’t have to navigate stairs, but being alone in the house presented new problems. What if she fell on the stairs … there was no one there to hear her fall or to help her.

My husband came up with the idea of installing one of those stair lifts. I think my mother liked the idea, but we could never fully talk her into it.

Now with my knees starting to speak their mind more and more often I almost wish that we’d install a stair lift here. I’m always going up and down the stairs. The main bathroom is upstairs. Now that we have a puppy in the house I’m also going outside and again up and down stairs outside all the time too.

You can bet that if we ever move I’ll be sure to buy a house with a bathroom and maybe even a bedroom on the main floor.

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