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Primary Care Doctor's Pushing Weight Loss Surgery

DaniEdge9
DaniEdge9 Posts: 34
edited February 4 in Motivation and Support
I had a question, and I was hoping people here could answer it, I put it in the motivation and support board because this made me feel really bad...I know that may make me a baby, and I'm not usually a baby about my weight but it came out of no where for me.

Today I went to my new PCP, he was pretty decent, I went in for an annual check up. So he does my check up and stuff, I actually lost a little weight from my OBGYN seeing me, yay. He does some other stuff and then he mentions, oh did you want to consider weight loss surgery? I'm sitting there sort of dumbfounded but I said no I'm working out and doing stuff but he was like "Are you sure? We have some great clinics, it's not like gastric by pass, blah blah."

I know I'm overweight, I'm 254 and 5'5" but to have a doctor just go "Oh get some surgery" over offering up diet and nutrition stuff, it was jarring. I wanted to know if this is a trend anyone here is seeing with the PCP?
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