I’ve been stuck in not knowing what to write about, so I haven’t written anything but book reviews. A lot has happened in the last few months, I have started taking the nutrition classes that my insurance company requires me to take in order to get gastric bypass done. In my first class I learned about an app called Baritastic that is a lot better than myfitnesspal. Baritastic measures calories through macro nutrutients which your body needs in order to function. It has an awesome pie chart so you can see each days macronutrients that you have eaten. With my fitnesspal they don’t have that option. They focus on just calories, not the nutrients that your body requires in order to function. Protein is key. I’m too eat 100 grams a day. That is hard to do. Some days I hit the mark and some days I don’t. I also love that they have an accountability section so I can invite people to join me and we can leave each other messages. With this app and focusing on measuring my food I have been able to lose 5.2 pounds of the 58 I need to lose in order to see the surgeon.
On the other hand, another health challenge has reared its ugly head. Two months ago I had to do a lot of blood work and meet with the nurse practitioner at the baritatric center. She noticed that my TSH and my T4 wasn’t making sense and suggested that I talk to my doctor about it. I did, and my doctor agree my TSH and T4 didn’t make sense. They were both high. So I went in for another blood test to see if it was a lab error or something. It wasn’t. My primary suggested I see an endochronologist, which I already have for my diabetes. So I wrote him and asked him to take a look at my blood work and see what he thought. He did. He thinks from my results that my pituitary gland is the issue. I am scheduled for an MRI on June 20th. I was like okay. What is the pituitary gland? This is what I have found out.
The pituitary gland is pea size and is situated in the hollow in the bridge of your nose next to the hypothalamus. It is attached to the hypothalamus with a stalk and it attaches to the back of the brain. The pituitary gland controls thyroid, adrenals, ovaries, and the testicles. The hypothalamus controls the pituitary. The pituitary gland, also known as the master gland secretes hormones into the body through the bloodstream. The hypothalamus influences body temperature, food intake, thirst, water intake, sleep, emotions, and memory. My blood work apparently indicates that I may have a tumor. The treatment will be either medication, brain surgery, or radiation. Yeah, not that the kind of news you want to hear when your focus ford for the year is Rebuild. After reading all of this, I went numb. I only told a few close and safe people in my life until I can feel strong and capable enough to stand up and climb this mountain. My thoughts were should I continue to work towards bariatric surgery? Should I give up? Am I going to die from this? The normal range of erratic emotions that comes with serious health conditions.
I will be continuing towards bariatric surgery until the surgeon tells me no. I will step up and climb the mountain of my health challenges.
I also during this time period of set up an appointment to receive counseling as I meander through the obstacles and I start it tomorrow.
Here is where I found my information:
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