Lifting Weights After Mastectomy: Why the 4-6 Week Wait ?
I had a preventive double mastectomy, and at the follow-up the surgeon explained why I must wait six weeks before resuming lifting weights with my upper body. […]
Visible Lump Above Incision After Mastectomy Bandages Removed
Here’s what a visible, palpable lump immediately after your mastectomy is most likely to be … I recently underwent a preventive double mastectomy. Two and a half days later I removed the outer bandages and [...]
Morbid but Effective Way to Recover from Double Mastectomy
I underwent a double mastectomy and found a way, though morbid, to ease my anxiety during the recovery process. […]
What Is “Skinny Fat” and How to Identify and Correct It
"Skinny Fat" isn't a fad name that's caught on wildfire for nothing. Skinny-fat is actually a state of health -- a poor state of health that afflicts both women and men. When body positive obese [...]
Can a Thin Woman Be Big Boned or Is She Always Small Boned ?
Does the size of a woman’s bones have anything to do with whether she’s “scary skinny,” fashionably trim or overweight? Do small bones always mean thin body? Actress Tara Reid, whom many think is scary [...]
Deltoid Muscle Pain: Causes Including Cancer & Heart Problems
Don’t kid yourself; tears and strains of the deltoid muscle are hardly the only causes of pain in this area. You can also count in different cancers and heart problems. […]
Metabolic Healthy Fat Doesn’t Protect Against the Flu
Obese women who claim they’re healthy because they have normal blood pressure and blood sugar need to know that obesity impairs protection against the flu. Of course, this applies to men as well. Normal blood [...]
110 Over 60 Blood Pressure: Can this Ever Mean Trouble?
Some people are worried that a blood pressure reading of 110 over 60 is not safe and can lead to feeling dizzy, faint or actually passing out. […]
Stiff but Painless Fingers in the Morning: Cause, Prevention
The cause of waking with stiff painless fingers in the morning isn’t always arthritis or disease. This is for people who awaken with stiff but painless fingers that, within half a minute of fist clenching, [...]
How to Hide Mastectomy Drainage Bulbs from Family
Here’s how to hide the JP drain bulbs from family members or anyone else whom you do not want to know of your double mastectomy. […]
Is Prostate Cancer Deadlier than Breast Cancer?
The extent that breast cancer awareness is promoted may have you believing that this disease is a LOT deadlier than prostate cancer. […]
Enlarged Prostate vs. Prostate Cancer: Symptom Comparison
The symptom overlap from an enlarged prostate and prostate cancer are nearly identical as far as urine-related symptoms. […]
Blood from UTI Can Be Visible to the Naked Eye: Appearance
Yes it’s possible to see in the toilet the blood from a urinary tract infection, and it can appear in different ways to the naked eye. […]
You Know You’re Ready for a Preventive Double Mastectomy When…
If you’ve been wrestling for a long time on whether or not to have a preventive double mastectomy, here’s how to tell that you’re ready for this procedure. […]
Best 5 Exercises to Prepare for Double Mastectomy Recovery
If you’re planning on a preventive double mastectomy, your recovery will be made so much easier if you train your body with five specific exercises. These guidelines pertain specifically to a preventive (prophylactic) double mastectomy [...]
No Caregiver After Double Mastectomy: Home Alone Guidelines
There are critical steps you must take if you’ll be alone in your home immediately after your double mastectomy. […]
My Body Thought My Double Mastectomy Was Another Gym Workout
I killed the initial recovery for my preventive double mastectomy. This is because my body “thought” the surgery was just another one of my strenuous gym workouts. […]
What Does a Preventive Double Mastectomy Feel Like Same Day?
The way that a preventive double mastectomy feels the same day of the operation may be dependent upon the level of fitness you had going into the surgery. […]
How Much Does a Heparin Injection Hurt?
Anyone who’s had a heparin injection will tell you it’s no walk in the park. It hurts. There’s just something about the heparin injection that makes it hurt more than a more typical shot that [...]
You Know You Can Have a Heart Attack Any Day When…
You may have a heart attack at any time within 30 days if the following situations apply to you. Some of these situations will surprise you, because you’d never think they could somehow foretell a [...]
How to Make Vanilla Protein Powder with Water Tolerable
Here’s a very simple way to make any brand of whey vanilla protein powder highly tolerable when mixed with water and so easy to drink. There’s no need to make a “shake” every time you [...]
How to Tell a Body Positive Woman Is Promoting Obesity
There are ways you can tell when a body positive overweight woman is promoting obesity, even when she’s rather cryptic about it. […]
What’s the Best Grip for Bent-Over Barbell Rows for Women ?
There is no one-size-fits-all best grip for the bent-over barbell row, whether you’re a woman or a man. But there are guidelines for getting the most out of this back-dominant compound exercise. […]
Fear Twitching Muscles Mean ALS? Try Yoga for Strength Tests
Yoga is a great way to do strength tests if you’re convinced you have ALS due to twitching muscles. […]
You Know Your Diabetes Is Uncontrolled When …
You can live to 100 with controlled diabetes, but uncontrolled diabetes can kill you in a flash and is the leading cause of blindness and amputation in the U.S. There is no reason for diabetes [...]
Guidelines for Heavy Weightlifting After Double Mastectomy
A former personal trainer who underwent a prophylactic double mastectomy documents her return to heavy strength training; great tips for safely regaining lost strength! The surgeon told me to wait six weeks before resuming upper body [...]
Have You Gotten 50 New Moles in Only a Month? What this Means
Over the course of just as month, about 50 new moles have appeared on your body. This brings to mind melanoma or the possibility that out of all those moles, at least a few will [...]
Why Can’t You Raise Arms Overhead After Double Mastectomy
What are the actual reasons why a woman is told not to lift her arms overhead for two weeks after a double mastectomy? Here is the answer – as it pertains to a prophylactic double [...]
Why Are Kids’ Toys that Mimic Adult’s Tools Brightly Colored?
Even plastic toy barbells are bright red, green, purple and yellow! Toy shovels, brooms, stoves and trucks are red, blue, purple, green and yellow, yet are somehow supposed to make the young child feel as [...]
Why Intuitive Eating Can Make You Gain Fat Weight
Beware of “intuitive eating,” despite its funky sounding name; it could make you gain FAT weight. Intuitive eating is essentially a free-for-all when it comes to food. Tenets of Intuitive Eating No foods are forbidden. [...]
Metabolic Healthy Obese vs. Metabolic Healthy Normal Weight
Why do metabolic healthy obese people keep comparing themselves to “unhealthy thin” people when they should be comparing themselves to metabolically healthy THIN or straight-size people? “In this situation, one should compare oneself to the [...]
Do Heavy Deadlifts Prevent a Sore Low Back from Yoga?
If you’re an animal with deadlifts, don’t think for a second that a single class of yoga won’t give you a sore back after the class or the day after. There are different ways that [...]
Can You Prevent Knee Replacement Surgery with Exercise, Diet?
How many of the 600,000 knee replacements every year in the U.S. can be prevented with diet and exercise? Or are some people genetically doomed, as many would like to believe? […]
Why a Primary Melanoma Sometimes Can’t Be Found?
A person is diagnosed with metastatic melanoma but the original “bad mole” cannot be found; why IS this? It’s crucial to find that primary melanoma tumor so that it can be surgically excised. [...]
Is a Malignant Melanoma Different than just “Melanoma”?
“Malignant melanoma” vs. “melanoma.” Is there actually a difference in meaning when someone says malignant melanoma as opposed to just “melanoma”? […]
How Fast Can a Seborrheic Keratosis Grow?
The sometimes rapidly changing growth of a seborrheic keratosis can fool people into thinking they have a melanoma. But not all seborrheic keratoses grow quickly. […]
Can Melanoma Be Perfectly Round, Symmetrical, One Color?
Okay, we all know that “black and ugly” describes melanoma, and online images show melanoma to be evil-looking, dark, jagged, bumpy, the whole works. But we must also consider that often, by the time a [...]
Can a New Melanoma Start Out Looking Like a Blackhead?
Unfortunately, among all those blackheads on your nose, chin or cheeks could be a very early melanoma slyly blending in and going unnoticed. If the new “blackhead” begins developing in an isolated area on your [...]
Can a Melanoma Biopsy Spread Cancer Cells?
If you’re scared that an upcoming biopsy of what you think is a melanoma might spread the cancer cells, you’ve every reason to be worried. Yes, a melanoma biopsy has the potential to “spread” the [...]
Can You Be Physically Fit Without Working Out?
You cannot be physically fit in the absence of exercise, even if you're naturally on the thin side. Physical health is synonymous with exercise. Having an efficient cardiovascular system and strong joints come only with [...]
