This support is costing me $60 in all. It's extended size and I want it to support my stomach and take some weight off my back. Girdles don't work much any more because they make them long in the torso and I think it only makes things worse to have them bunched up around my waist. When I work it's far too hot to use a body shaper like this. So this is a simple support just for the belly (where most of my weight problems are) and help my back not to ache when I do the least little thing other than sit on my lazy butt all day.
Ache and Pain #2
My left ankle, which has this bone splinter in it that I never knew about because it never gave me many problems before. So my feet hurt. What else can I expect at 280lbs? X-rays showed the problem and I have been wearing ankle support and ace-bandages for over a month now. It is getting mighty old. And again, this is aggravated by standing on it too long, or working my weekends, which turns me into a cripple until I sit down
Ache and pain #3
My left knee and sometimes the long bone attached to it. I have fallen on this knee so much in the past. It seems like every time I fell, this was the knee that hit the ground first, so it's much worse than my right one. Again, gets very aggravated when I stand or walk too long.
Ache and pain #4
My back. The weight of my belly strains it, as well as the fact that I have degenerative spine problems. I was assured that as you get older (and being obese certainly doesn't help) that this is common, some are more degenerated than others. Either way my back kills me if I do anything but sit. This is why I have ordered this abdominal support. It is more costly than I wanted to pay but I looked at the cheap ones and dismissed them for one reason or the other and kept coming back to this one. It's for extended sizes 2x-4x and should get round my stomach and help my back. The girdles are not cutting it any more and regular binders are so wide and as I don't have a torso (being little over 5' and all my weight in my middle section) a regular binder would be too wide in the wrong places.
I think I'm ready to exchange my junk food for a smaller size now. When weight affects your mobility it's time to get something done about it
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