Tests: Pass or Fail?

I go to the gym, I try to hike as much as the weather will allow, which isn't much this year, I am sketchy at best on some of the foods I am taking in, and I am now in constant discomfort not only with my weight currently, but with pains that have come up now on a daily basis.  I am never pain free, I am pain reduced but I am always in pain.

I am finding this is making it difficult to maintain any kind of positive outlook or attitude to push myself even harder with working out and such.  When I workout/hike etc that causes a different "positive" pain (the "no pain no gain" thingy) in conjunction with the unwanted pains.  So, I am torn in regards to how much pain I can deal with daily. 

With these pains, my weight has not reduced it has increased over the last 10 months by 10-12 pounds, a total gain in two years of 18-20 pounds of the 60-65 I pushed hard to lose.  So, I get down on myself over this, but then I wonder if the pains I have are the cause of the gain, so is this partially a medical reason?

Well, I finally hit the wall with dealing with these pains and started down the road with the doctors. 

I don't know what the outcome is going to be all in all, but we have found out that I do have some things going on that we caught.  Nothing that was life threatening but always if left unattended it could become so...but I am not in a life threatening situation currently.  I just have pains and discomforts that are undetermined at this point and those things "found" normally are not a cause for pain, hence a bit of confusion and concern as to what is causing the pains.  Are you dizzy yet?

I am and I am writing it... ;)

So, I just completed my fifth doctor's visit in less than a month and I have three more to go at this point.  Let's hope that we can figure this out quickly and non-surgically, or at least non-envasive.

There is the latest and greatest update....

I am still going to the gym regardless of the pain, and this weekend should be nice so I am going to get a day hike in at some point!!!!!!!!  I need it.

Camera at the ready too. :)