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May. 5th, 2024 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evile Spending time in CO with a friend in mourning and the friend who asked me to go with her to visit & help brought some things to light (again again again) for me. My widowed friend is 3 yrs older than I am. She is of normal weight. Her health is shot, she has mental health issues and rheumatoid arthritis and an ulcer and I don't know what all. She has a big basket of prescriptions she takes daily. My friend who travelled with me from Austin has Guillan Barre, takes a ton of meds, and is easily tired. Our visit had a lot of conversations about this and that med and side effects, etc. I didn't have much to contribute when the conversation went there. I take vitamins but that's about it.
Which caused me to realize that at 53, all I am taking is an expired estrogen prescription (once they're gone, they're gone, I won't see anyone to refill....doctors are ass, all they do is tell me I'm fat)....and mostly healthy. And vitamins. I mean, fat and out of shape, knee and ankle pain (knee from krav maga injury, opposite ankle I suspect from compensating for bad knee) and occasional foot pain ( old, healed but never treated plantar plate tear? old pain from previously broken toes? plantar faciitis? dunno.)
Facebook is pretty good about targeting ads to me. It showed me a Lilly survey/trial thingy where if you are basically me, you can get into a weight loss study. I keep filling it out and stopping before i get finished. I don't knwo what the block is. If they are doing an ozempic thing, a) I'm not keen on needles and b) I don't want to do yet another thing where I lose some significant amount of weight and then blow up again as soon as I stop doing the thing. So far the only things that lasted any significant amount of time were low carb (but not sustainable over a longer term, esp when you are the one cooking for a household of non lowcarbers) and krav maga, but now with the bad knee and age I'm not sure if I could really do it again.
I am thinking maybe when I'm working again I'll investigate a couple of the 'women over 50' workout places I've had pushed to me on fb ads. I don't want to be on diabetic meds, I am not keen on side effects.
anyhoo....bleh. If I finished the survey and they offered an injection as the weight loss study item I could still say no, right? Last study I did was in my early 30s and it was effexor. I didn't like that one. memory loss.
Which caused me to realize that at 53, all I am taking is an expired estrogen prescription (once they're gone, they're gone, I won't see anyone to refill....doctors are ass, all they do is tell me I'm fat)....and mostly healthy. And vitamins. I mean, fat and out of shape, knee and ankle pain (knee from krav maga injury, opposite ankle I suspect from compensating for bad knee) and occasional foot pain ( old, healed but never treated plantar plate tear? old pain from previously broken toes? plantar faciitis? dunno.)
Facebook is pretty good about targeting ads to me. It showed me a Lilly survey/trial thingy where if you are basically me, you can get into a weight loss study. I keep filling it out and stopping before i get finished. I don't knwo what the block is. If they are doing an ozempic thing, a) I'm not keen on needles and b) I don't want to do yet another thing where I lose some significant amount of weight and then blow up again as soon as I stop doing the thing. So far the only things that lasted any significant amount of time were low carb (but not sustainable over a longer term, esp when you are the one cooking for a household of non lowcarbers) and krav maga, but now with the bad knee and age I'm not sure if I could really do it again.
I am thinking maybe when I'm working again I'll investigate a couple of the 'women over 50' workout places I've had pushed to me on fb ads. I don't want to be on diabetic meds, I am not keen on side effects.
anyhoo....bleh. If I finished the survey and they offered an injection as the weight loss study item I could still say no, right? Last study I did was in my early 30s and it was effexor. I didn't like that one. memory loss.
