Hi Perna - that article was interesting. I hope to get back to exercising after the surgery. I really can't right now, b/c the mass on my kidney is also messing with the adrenal gland, and if I do any activity for more than 5 minutes, too many endorphins are pumped through my body, which causes excessive sweating and my blood pressure to spike. When my blood pressure is too high, it sometimes causes my nose to bleed. Learned that one the hard way back in June.

I've been _trying_ to stick to eating less calories, protein shakes, soy joy bars, multi grain cherrios. My biggest problem is the binge eating that happens when I'm depressed, but I am _working_ on that.

krzyk101- I had told the doctor that taking flexaril, skelaxin, methocarbonol, was like taking sugar pills, and didn't help at all. He said that they usually only use baclofen in the hospital, but he said that it was one of the only other muscle relaxants that didn't react to my long list of other prescriptions I take. I found it to be helpful, but he only gave me 7 days worth.