Saw my medical records.
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jenniferb973 wrote: »So I had to switch primary care physicians because my doctor was moving out of state. I picked up a copy of my medical records....the first report said:
"29 year old morbidly obese female with complaints of chest pain......"
Well I never!!! Morbidly obese?!?!? Granted, I am 186lbs and 5'4....but I thought I wasn't that bad....I didn't feel like I looked morbidly obese...but hey....HERE I AM!!!!
words hurt lol....I'm having my second go around on MFP...hopefully this time around I'll stick to it, and get to my goal
good luck everyone!
I have trained myself to not get upset by labels. However at 5'4" and 187 pounds, or I at 165 pounds at 4'11" we both carry too much weight around, no matter what anyone calls it.
Good Luck to you !
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It's a medical term and describes your BMI. It's not a personal offence. As an example, a woman pregnant with her first child who is over 35 years old is termed 'elderly primigravida'. 35 years old is hardly elderly but that's the term anyway.0
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I am your height and weight and I am very happily out of the "morbidly" tag. Still obese. Own the obese.
The doctor was only partially right.0 -
PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »Bronan_The_Brobarian wrote: »Your doctor probably just hates overweight people
Doctors should love us. We're cash cows!... so to speak.
I guess I should consider myself lucky. The terminology used by my GP is much more politically correct, but, instead of making me mad, it makes me laugh because it sounds so silly. On my reports, weighing 230 lbs. in 2014 and 202.5 lbs. when I saw him 5 months ago, it said: "patient is well-nourished." Ya think?!?
I will be interested to see what description they use at my next appointment, as I left "obese" 9 pounds ago, and should be within 15 to 18 pounds of "normal" (if things keep going the way they have been) when I next see him.
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I'm in the camp with those telling you obese yes, morbidly no. It does matter what he calls it because it is a medical term and it's being used incorrectly. I don't take offense to it, but I agree it's an ugly word. :laugh: I started out actually morbidly obese and have dropped the morbidly part, so I guess that's progress. Next goal: overweight! Look at it this way, with a BMI of 31.9 you have only two points to go to downgrade your status. 0
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jenniferb973 wrote: »words hurt lol....I'm having my second go around on MFP...hopefully this time around I'll stick to it, and get to my goal good luck everyone!
Yeah, that old saw about "sticks & stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me"? Doubtful, but the kernel of truth is that it's all about how you react to the words, or the situation that triggered them. And being overweight *can* hurt you.
You can lose weight if you commit to it.
I started out at 183 pounds in April 2015. I'm 5'5". That's "obese". I even briefly argued with a nurse practitioner who told me I didn't look obese. I told her to calculate my BMI; I knew it was technically obese. (I may be enough more muscular than average to make a difference, but I doubt it. I think it was just that as a very active person, my face & arms are not as doughy-looking as some of the people she was used to seeing at that same weight.)
I just hit 139 this morning, for the first time since the 1970s (I'm 59). That's a middle-of-the-range normal BMI. For my frame, I've probably got another 10-15 pounds until GW.
I'll get there. You can, too.
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That is incorrect. I am that height and weight and not morbidly obese, it is obese class 1. Between 77.7kg and 88.8kg is class 2, and above that is class 3.
YOU might feel morbidly obese but I sure don't, I've had a BMI of 52, this puts us at a BMI of about 33.0 -
hey guys thanks for the input....I wasn't truly hurt by it.... it was more of an inspiration if anything...I'm just such a word fluffer when I talk to people and make things sound nice lol....so I was like oh my!!! lol... For whatever reason, I was warned for this post...not sure why. I don't think it's offensive. I wanted to see if people could relate, or share what was their own inspiration to really do something...hopefully no one was offended. I saw the humor in it...as I joke with the dr. all the time...lol
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As others have said, you are not 'morbidly' obese, you're only just into the obese category. Your doctore mis-classified you.0
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Doctors *sigh*
They use BMI to determine weight - I certainly think the 'morbidly' was added in error. Don't let it hurt you
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I always hated the Wii fit game saying "that's obese" in that squeaky voice when it shows your weight. I feel the offended and motivated vibe, lol.0
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My point is not everyone falls onto that BMI scale that doctors go by. Ive had doctors tell me it would be impossible for me to get to my actual weight. When they tell me a goal weight Im still overweight or obese. If she is at a weight that is healthy she doesnt necessarily need to be at the actual BMI.0 -
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By the way when hubby hit the obese category he was horrified. He begged me to confirm for days on end that he wasn't and didn't stop asking until I agreed he wasn't obese. He's a little more careful what he eats though.0
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yes, it certainly made me pay more attention to everything I'm eating.....and giving me the push. I was horrified when I saw the paper...lol....But motivated at the same time.0
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Yup, just medical, not personal, because of your BMI and accompanying health issue. Hey, when I was pregnant at 36 my chart said "advanced maternal age." Ha! Medical terms don't sound nice but they're really nothing personal!
This was me at 35. It bothered me quite a bit, but not nearly as much as seeing that the break point on the other end was age 12. Twelve?!! Sorry for the sidebar- just agreeing that terms are terms and I'm sure there's some sort of basis for each and every number somewhere.0 -
I think it would upset me if I saw that same thing. As of now I am considered obese, but I am working on that. I will not let a word define who I am. We are all beautiful and amazing in our own unique ways. Good luck on your journey!0
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My gyno once told me that "obviously" I was depressed because I teared up when she asked about my recently diagnosed cancer. I was too shocked in the rude delivery, but I wish I could go back in time and ask her what made her qualified to make that statement. Not all doctors have the best beside manner, even if it was just meant for your chart.0
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jenniferb973 wrote: »hey guys thanks for the input....I wasn't truly hurt by it.... it was more of an inspiration if anything...I'm just such a word fluffer when I talk to people and make things sound nice lol....so I was like oh my!!! lol... For whatever reason, I was warned for this post...not sure why. I don't think it's offensive. I wanted to see if people could relate, or share what was their own inspiration to really do something...hopefully no one was offended. I saw the humor in it...as I joke with the dr. all the time...lol
Really? For all the stuff I've seen fly in these forums, you got a warning for that? I'm guessing it was for the relatively innocuous acronym you used in the original title??
Good attitude though! It really does make me wonder about what my doctor calls me. I have asthma, so that may qualify me for the level up since asthma can sometimes be aggravated by obesity - even though I was diagnosed at the age of 2.
Agh - you've got me curious. But like you, I'd probably just see it as motivating. I am what I am. I can only get better.0 -
jenniferb973 wrote: »So I had to switch primary care physicians because my doctor was moving out of state. I picked up a copy of my medical records....the first report said:
"29 year old morbidly obese female with complaints of chest pain......"
Well I never!!! Morbidly obese?!?!? Granted, I am 186lbs and 5'4....but I thought I wasn't that bad....I didn't feel like I looked morbidly obese...but hey....HERE I AM!!!!
words hurt lol....I'm having my second go around on MFP...hopefully this time around I'll stick to it, and get to my goal good luck everyone!
As others have pointed out, 'obese' is an absolutely correct way to categorize your current weight. And while I know people like to criticize use of the BMI, it's a pretty reasonable tool for providing a starting snapshot for most folks. You aren't in one of the groups known to be outside of typical BMI categories, so...welcome to MFP!
I don't think your doc was off-base in categorizing you as 'morbidly obese' since you also presented with chest pains.
It's time to save your own life, girlfriend. Blessings and good luck to you! If those medical files ticked you off enough to get you here, then someday you might want to send that doctor a thank-you note
Hang in there.
This. i've been there, too, which is why did something about my obesity.
OP, you can do this, we are standing behind you 100%!0 -
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Well that stings. You've got this!0
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janejellyroll wrote: »Yup, just medical, not personal, because of your BMI and accompanying health issue. Hey, when I was pregnant at 36 my chart said "advanced maternal age." Ha! Medical terms don't sound nice but they're really nothing personal!
A co-worker of mine had "elderly multigravida" written on hers. She was 38.
Yes, because she was pregnant and older than 35 so there are risks...0 -
I agree with everyone else. I'm in the same category as you, but was obese2 when I started. Now, I'm just regular obese. My mini goal is to be merely "overweight." haha.
I can't believe you got a warning. I don't see anything in this post that violates the MFP forum rules, unless they changed them or something.
I have to wonder about the forums anyway. I keep getting a survey about the usefulness of the forums on here. I did fill it out, but it seemed to me that perhaps they were gaging site and service survival without the forums. Maybe that makes sense from a manpower and legal spend perspective.
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I can relate. When I accessed my files, I saw they noted my pregnancy was complicated because I was "morbidly obese". That bothered me!! And I wasn't really so fat I didn't think, I had just gotten pregnant back to back. Granted I hadn't lost my baby weight either and wasn't doing anything about it at the time either. But my pregnancy wasn't complicated from that, it was because I was carrying mono - mono twins. That stuck with me though and I'm doing something about it now though. .0
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^ This ^oh_happy_day wrote: »It's a medical term and describes your BMI. It's not a personal offence. As an example, a woman pregnant with her first child who is over 35 years old is termed 'elderly primigravida'. 35 years old is hardly elderly but that's the term anyway.
Back when I was a teenager, I was really underweight and mom took me to the doctor to make sure I didn't have some sort of medical issue or something. I ate well, and ate until I was full, but I was just burning more calories than I was eating at the time. The doctor said that she was going to write "anorexia" on my medical file as a diagnosis. She was very careful to explain that that was not the same as anorexia nervosa. It was just a medical term meaning "without an appetite". Not a personal judgement or anything, just medical jargon. I think the same thing happened to you in this case, just on the opposite end of the spectrum.
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