I exercised this morning, and before I left home to see the gastroenterologist, I noticed my iPhone was stuck on headphones mode even though I had removed the headphones. I had a couple minutes to read easy fixes on the internet, tried them, none worked. Well, on the positive, my gastroenterologist's office is near the mall, the location of the nearest Apple store (about a 45 minute drive if traffic is good).

Saw the doc first, said my weight was low but not worrying him as I had lived most of my adult life prior to the year before I got this ulcer weighing about the same. He said the type of ulcer I had (duodenal) often feels better after a person eats, so I could have subconsciously been eating more to ease pain from it, but I hardly had any symptoms except such minor heartburn, I never thought it worth seeing my PCP or even using an OTC solution for it, so I doubt I would have been eating more to ease pain. So who knows? Maybe I gained 20 lb. because of the ulcer. Myself, I think it was because I was on Seroquel XR at the time, and it made me very tired. I would sleep & sleep, so of course, I was burning fewer calories. At that point in my life, I would have spent every day in bed asleep nearly all the time if I could have. I slept a lot while my daughter was at school and husband at work. Thank God the regular release Seroquel works for me.

Gastro doc told me I should not have stopped taking Protonix (oops). He put me right back on it. Apparently, I am going to be on this stuff the rest of my life unless I have complications and have to try another option, but he feels Protonix is the best choice for now. Otherwise, the appointment when fine. My scar is apparently healing nicely (though I hate it), everything is good. At least, my next visit there is not until 6 months now.

I took my phone to the Apple store in the mall, which is always insanely busy. I actually got an appointment in an hour, which is fast. I've had to wait 3 hours in the past for an appointment. Guess it was lucky to arrive before the lunch crowd, right after 11 AM. Did a little shopping, bought a new bra at Victoria's Secret. Hubby was not happy about the price, but one of mine is falling apart. He didn't realize it had been 6 years since I'd gotten any new bras (once I weaned from breastfeeding, yes, I was bad and nursed on Cymbalta along with occasional Klonopin but it was mostly comfort nursing after age 2; for us, it was the right decision. I wouldn't do it differently). At least, I have good luck with the Victoria's Secret bras lasting. My chest measurements are dismal though, 32A, I might as well have nothing up there.

The Apple store people fortunately got my phone off headphone mode and told me do not exercise with it because if sweat or water gets in the headphone jack, it can get stuck on headphone mode, which may or may not be fixable. Great. What am I supposed to exercise with now? I had my husband pull out our old box of cell phones; there are some real vintage ones in there, but we had HTC smartphones before iPhones, maybe they can load the music (might be tricky coming from iTunes though, but I think I might have an old list of mp3s I bought off Amazon ages ago I could sort through). I also found a super cracked iPhone that I'm hoping will charge and work good enough to run MapMyRun and a music playlist. I'll see.