Re: Prednisone ~ Buffalo Hump

[Guest guest]

Tess,

I would bet, and I am a gambling woman, that it is connected to your

diabetes (or the correction thereof as a result of the surgery).

Hope it goes away completely soon! I think it will.

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

[ ] Prednisone ~ Buffalo Hump

> I was treated with large doses of prednisone for polycystic ovarian

> disease in 1972. I got the " moon face " and the " buffalo hump " (which

my

> children always called the " humpy bump " and to my way of thinking is a

> much nicer name). Within weeks of stopping prednisone, the moon face

> disappeared, but the " humpy bump " has never left. Now I have lost

fair

> amounts of weight in the past with little to no effect on it. Until

> now. Since my bariatric surgery my humpy-bump has decreased by about

> half already! I am NOT complaining, believe me. But I wonder why the

> fat from it has been leaving so rapidly when during " dieting " and

losing

> more than I've lost so far with surgery, it didn't diminish at all?

>

> Love & hugs...

>

> Tess

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 17/06/2004 00:15:51 Central Standard Time,

Grammi_Love@... writes:

> " humpy bump "

Tess

Isn't it nice sometimes how kids can make something you hate about yourself

seem cute or likable? Thank goodness for little kids! Cary

P.S....the exception to that, of course, is teenagers............ugh :>)

[Guest guest]

> Cary,

> Teenagers are NOT kids. They are alien beings. LOL! I think they get

> abducted with they hit the teen years and are brainwashed and taught to

> torture parents. It¹s just a good thing that this brainwashing doesn¹t last

> forever and they eventually GROW UP!!!

> a

>

>

> Tess

> Isn't it nice sometimes how kids can make something you hate about yourself

> seem cute or likable? Thank goodness for little kids! Cary

> P.S....the exception to that, of course, is teenagers............ugh :>)

>

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