(08-05-2017, 03:46 PM)Dakota Wrote: 3 years ago, I started gaining weight. I was 6'1", and weighed about 220. Inexplicably, I started gaining weight and got all the way to 269. I went into the ER, and was diagnosed with Kidney Cancer. After my treatment started, I dropped all the way down to 170. Now, I hold a steady weight of 200 to 205. Today I weighed in at 202. My disease had everything to do with my weight gain.

My mother was always very thin and fit until she was hit with multiple diseases diabetes, thyroid, hypertension and the list goes on...One medication made her lose weight, another made her gain weight, which made her diabetes harder to effectively treat so her medications were changed frequently and when one medicine was changed, they all had to be changed...she would lose 4 or 5 pounds one week and gain it all back the following week or visa versa...sometimes she would gain multiple weeks, and lose very little in following weeks...She ended up on kidney dialysis taking off a lot of water weight as her kidneys were not filtering properly...She had count every ounce of fluid she ate or drank...anything that would turn into a fluid when digested was counted as fluids, and she was only allowed 8oz of liquids per day...Then she developed a blood clot from dialysis and had a massive stroke and died...

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