Emy Moore

And the dexamethasone is a codosteroid to where you're supposed to taper it.

So you're supposed to take...

Little doses in the beginning and then gradually scale yourself up and then scale yourself down.

And so and the Z-Pak and the dexamethasone simultaneously at the same time is just incredibly crazy.

I can't believe they let me take that at the same time.

But they didn't have me taper the quarter steroid.

And so from that malpractice, I gained about 20 pounds of 25 pounds of water retention in a week, which was incredibly painful.

I was bloated around my face, my arms, my stomach.

You name it.

It was terrifying.

It hurt.

I felt so unconfident and so unlike myself because I weigh about 125 and then I jumped to 150.

I felt like my skin was exploding and my appetite was gone and I started feeling really weird.

My mind, I was having like scary brain fog and honestly just flushed it all out of my system.

They were like, we're not going to give you any more meds because the meds is what made you sick.

Yeah.

And so whenever I was proposed to, I was walking that out and I was dealing with like a lot of bodily shame that felt really sad during the time.

And then I'd lost the 25 pounds leading up to the wedding, honestly, more because I was on a crazy calorie deficit and I was getting to eat up for the wedding.

Like, what are we talking about?

Um, but Malik was incredibly affirming throughout that process.