I've had this problem the last month.

[VirtualLarry]

Not as bad as the guy in the video, but I've had swelling of my scrotum, and I've already been on water pills, so after a few weeks of enlarging, it started to shrink down, then it enlarged again a little on the left side, and is just kinda lingering.

I weigh 500lbs, and even eating one meal a day and water fasting for the rest, off and on, doesn't seem to help me lose any weight. I'm just very sedentary.

 

[esquared]

Can you ask your doctor about using
Ozempic or one of the other semaglutides?

I don't know if you would be eligible to take it but it may be worth at least asking the doc about it.

There are one or two that are actually approved for weight loss
One is wegovy

Weight Management for Adults with Obesity | Wegovy® (semaglutide)

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www.wegovy.com

 

[Hans Gruber]

Don't forget about Mounjaro. Mounjaro are for what they classify as heavyweights. There are no fat old people. That is why you throw everything out the window when it comes to healthy weight loss. 500lbs is in the extreme risk category. Medicine is the only way to go in these circumstances. Good luck, Larry!

 

[WilliamM2]

There are no fat old people.

I can see youv'e never visited an old folks home, or go out in public.

There are plenty of fat old people, not that it's a good thing.

 

[mindless1]

Don't wait till it's 1/10th as out of control as the poor guy in the video.

If you aren't consuming excess calories then I wonder about water retention and whether your diet incorporates enough potassium, calcium, magnesium, and low sodium.

I'm sure you've had some doctors take a look at the situation but it might be time to find better docs. Some seem to just make token gestures to generate a stream of customers to earn an income. It's sad, the incompetence i've seen in the medical profession just trying to get a higher # of patients "treated" when treatment doesn't have to mean it works.

Don't even get me started about the new generation of "urgent care" clinics that can't seem to even scratch their own worthless balls. Heh, I just saw a commerical on TV the other day about a cancer clinic and they were claiming they are the "first clinic of their kind" and all it said to me was, nobody else is so incompetent that they had the balls to open a clinic with no ability to do any real treatments, just talk to you about how you "feel" and do minimal things an RN would... then will have a whole ONE RN on staff, and the rest are just nobodies who engage you in paperwork and waiting and questionnaires, and hoping they don't have to take the time of that RN and can just bore you to death and claim it was not their fault.

Healthcare in the US has become a clusterfvck.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I just hope Larry gets it all together before it kills him. I shouldn't complain at all about my 75-year-old health and health problems. I've been stamping my feet and being upset for needing to go on Metformin meds for diabetes. Then I discovered that a helluva lot of older people are taking Metformin. My friend -- who also takes it -- called it "part of the cost of aging". But in financial terms, what would've cost me $35 without health coverage for a 3-month supply was only $1.

Suddenly my blood pressure is in the normal zone; I don't feel like I need to piss every ten minutes; my blood oxygen is up from 95 to 97 after having quit smoking now for seven and a half months.

I just want to see Larry get his weight down. Certainly, there must be a solution. Larry is good people, and we need to help him stay among the living.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I just want to see Larry get his weight down. Certainly, there must be a solution. Larry is good people, and we need to help him stay among the living.

Thank you Bonzai, and everyone else.

I had a rough weekend, one of my best friends, arguably my current best friend right now, passed away this weekend at 75 years of age. (Not trying to scare you Bonzai, just the facts, Ma'am.) He had COPD, and possibly cancer.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Thank you Bonzai, and everyone else.

I had a rough weekend, one of my best friends, arguably my current best friend right now, passed away this weekend at 75 years of age. (Not trying to scare you Bonzai, just the facts, Ma'am.) He had COPD, and possibly cancer.

That's interesting. My good friend, Jack, the retired plasma physicist, also had COPD as do I, but he had quit smoking four years ago. His wife is an MD who retired from FDA -- she would be all over Jack for his habits and his health. He wouldn't have missed doctor appointments; you'd figure he might have stayed on top of his troubles at age 79. In June he told me he had stage 4 lung cancer under chemotherapy. After an e-mail exchange in mid-November, I heard nothing from him. A fellow college dorm brother sent me a note in the mail. Jack had passed away.

But this is the way I see it. Jack had been totally vaccinated for COVID. He had a stroke around mid-November, and they took him to the ER. In the ER, he caught COVID despite his vaccination record. He died in the hospital. Personally, I think the television news killed Jack. What caused the stroke? His wife had mentioned, that for the last couple years, the mild-mannered, soft-spoken Jack had been screaming at their TV set. Maybe he might have died this spring or this summer -- otherwise.

But the culprit -- on top of the COPD, the cancer, his weight problem -- was the TV news.

Here's something for you. I've discovered that they're importing farm-raised Atlantic salmon from Norway. Get yourself a package or two! Bake them in the oven! I cannot imagine that baked salmon will worsen your weight problem. And -- it tastes a lot better than the TV news . . .

I'm going to go warm up the rest of it, wake Moms, and we will finish it off.

 

[esquared]

More reading for you Larry

Step aside Ozempic and Wegovy — 'landmark' trial results for weight-loss drug Mounjaro just dropped, and they look pretty impressive

A new study suggests Mounjaro is a stronger and more potent drug for weight loss than Ozempic — overweight patients dramatically trimmed waistlines.

www.yahoo.com

I hope you have already made an appointment to talk to your doc.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I weigh 500lbs, and even eating one meal a day and water fasting for the rest, off and on, doesn't seem to help me lose any weight.

That doesn't help, AT ALL. Your body goes into emergency mode, slowing down your metabolism and preserving the fat coz it thinks you no longer have access to a food source.

The only way to lose weight is to eat three times a day but keep total calories to 1200 or less.

Otherwise, eating normally and water fasting completely on alternate days will help more since the body will be forced to burn off some of the fat to continue its essential functions on the water fasting day. You have to stick with this for the long term to see positive results.

 

[mindless1]

^ That may help, but it's not the only way.

I would not advise water fasting at all. No matter what else, if you are thirsty it is a sign your body needs it. You might be low on electrolytes and then you need those too instead of just water flushing even more of them out but either way, restricting water should only be done on the advice of physician.

I'm still back at my prior suggestion, see a doctor but also try to reduce sodium and increase other minerals. Make all your carbs complex, avoid enriched foods because synthetic vitamins are not the real deal and leave a lot else absent.'

I am not a licensed dietician, but it seems like it would be good to contact one. Not everything needs life long drugs rather than dietary changes, depends on the specifics. I'd always advocate making dietary changes before resorting to drugs, get a baseline from that and then wait a bit, change doesn't happen overnight but gradual improvements don't take that long to notice either, except that a substantial dietary change can take your digestive system a little while to adjust to. If you get diarrhea then keep up your electrolytes but again not too much sodium, measuring your blood pressure would be a good thing to do at this point, and if taking BP meds, consider that interaction.

 

[VirtualLarry]

water fasting means drinking water rather than eating meals, not restricting your intake of water

 

[mindless1]

Either way, you need to consider electrolyte levels. I don't understand the "rather", you need the same amount of water either way, is not a substitute nor does water intake increase by not eating. It seems like a fad catch phrase to me.

The goal is a sustainable diet, but just less of that as you whittle off the excess water and fat.

 

[Greenman]

Not as bad as the guy in the video, but I've had swelling of my scrotum, and I've already been on water pills, so after a few weeks of enlarging, it started to shrink down, then it enlarged again a little on the left side, and is just kinda lingering.

I weigh 500lbs, and even eating one meal a day and water fasting for the rest, off and on, doesn't seem to help me lose any weight. I'm just very sedentary.

I recently had a similar issue, though nowhere near the scale of the fellow in your video.
Right testicle slowly grew to the size of a large tangerine and was causing some discomfort. Required surgery to correct. Short version is they pull the enlarged testicle out, skin it, and stick it back in. While not a pleasant experience, it's not nearly as bad as it sounds. I quit taking oxycodone 4 day's after the surgery and subsisted 400mg of ibuprofen once a day.

 

[Muse]

I weigh 500lbs, and even eating one meal a day and water fasting for the rest, off and on, doesn't seem to help me lose any weight. I'm just very sedentary.

Can you alleviate your sedentary disposition? Little by little. Do a little exercise, walking or whatever and slowly increase it over time... weeks, months, years. It would help you gradually improve your health and reduce your weight. So many ways this can improve your life!