Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Having so much fun...

I love my digital scale. I'm having such a great time with it, though it does take me a lot longer to eat now. Yesterday afternoon, it took me an hour to prepare and weigh my food and eat it!!! I'm still stuck on the collard wraps. When I find a food I really like I tend to eat it as a major part of my diet for a long time. It's like I get on a kick. Last summer I got on a fig kick and I was eating them for dinner every night!

My inguinal lymph nodes have been really swollen the past week and a half. My groin area was hurting before that, but then it got worse. It all started in January, when I went out and ran 4 miles after not having run for months. I started having groin pain on the right side and I figured it would go away. It got somewhat better, but it never completely went away. Then last week, when I strayed from CRON and ate a bunch of junk food, it got worse and now my lymph nodes are really swollen. It's not that painful for the most part, but sometimes it does hurt a little when I walk or run. It's preventing me from running in the mornings because running irritates it so much. So basically the only exercise I can do is swimming and rebounding (they seem to help). In the mornings, it feels pretty good, but in the evenings, it really bothers me and last night, it wasn't just my groin area, but it was radiating down my leg and around my hip into my lower back. That makes me wonder if it's something more than just swollen lymph nodes. Anyhow, I hope it disappears soon. I keep thinking of going to the doctor, but then the next morning I feel better (it doesn't hurt in the morning) and I decide not to go to the doctor. Maybe I should just go, but I don't want to have to pay a whole bunch of money to get tests or whatever they want to do. Anyhow....I guess that's all for now. I have a bunch of homework I need to work on.

2 comments:

Deborah said...

Brianna, I'm glad to hear you're having fun with your scale. I'm sure it's a great tool for you. it will go faster as you get used to the system.

Please go to the doctor ASAP. Something in the lymph nodes hanging around for 4 months is not anything to ignore. Mono could be the cause even. Just have it checked..it is that important.

Take care,
D

Illiah said...

Go
TO
THE
DOCTOR

Radiating pain is not normal, and will not magically go away. You could have anything from mono, to a stress fracture in your pelvis. Hopefully, it's nothing, but find out. Please, or we'll all gang up and tell your mother!!!