Worst advice given to you by a "professional"

Lady_Bane

"no pain, no gain"...thats a crock of ****. Pain=injury=not being able to work out bc you are injured=gain weight back lol

Thanis90

A trainer at the gym told me to stop wearing bed clothes, cause you burn calories at a higher rate to keep you warm.

While this may be a scientific fact, I'd rather not catch Hypothermia or have peeping toms at my window.

Hickyvikki69

listen to no one but yourself and ur body!

jenyanta

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_VoV

Not weight loss related, but when I had raging bad TMJD and couldn't open my mouth more than 9mm without intense pain and my jaw making all kinds of horrible cracking noises, a tmj specialist oral surgeon told me, "That's just the way god made you."

Dude... I'm an atheist. In my mind, god didn't make me. And I wasn't "made" this way two years ago, so fix my damn jaw already!

My regular dentist got me all straightened out. And now I can open my mouth like a frickin' Pez dispenser. :happy:

I'd be walking out of that office and not paying the bill. I don't go to the doctor for a sermon. Dang.

How dare someone speak a common, innocuous phrase mentioning God in the presence of an ATHIEST. Grow up. You SHOULD be pissed that he was gonna let you stay that way, not offended at his choice of phrase.

I'd think it was a lot more about 'not only is the guy incompetent, he appealed to religion because he was incompetent'.

The condescending remark and incompetence is what pissed me off. The mentioning of the g-man when my religion (or lack of) was on my medical chart (which I thought was pretty strange... did they think my last rites would need to be read?!) just made it even more laughable.

I mean, honestly... if I had been a religious person, the thought of god "making me" someone who could barely open my mouth wide enough to eat a McDonald's french fry would be enough to turn me atheist! :laugh:

I don't mean to laugh at your pain, but that Pez dispenser remark had me LOLLing!

Sharyn913

The week of Thanksgiving, my toddler got sick with pneumonia. After a day on meds, he was fine. The day after Thanksgiving (Black Friday) I got a 104 degree fever. I took some ibuprofen and thought I would shake it. No amounts of ibuprofen or tylenol would shake the fever. I have a high deductible insurance plan and knew going to the ER would cost a ton, so I waited it out until Monday.

After 3-4 days with a 104* fever (even with a TON of meds, it never went below 102*) I went to the doctor. I told her I thought I caught pneumonia from my son since he was already diagnosed. She listened to my lungs and said they were fine, and gave me an RX for a cough medicine. I drove to the pharmacy and was so ill, I had to call my father who left work to come pick me up because I couldn't even stand. The doctor told me to call her tomorrow if I was still sick.

I took the cough medicine with some nyquil and ibuprofen and the next thing I knew the room was spinning out of control, I could not stand, and I was nauseas beyond belief. My husband was about to take me to the ER to have my stomach pumped and made emergency calls to the on call doctor at 1am. The next day (Tuesday) I called back mid day saying I still had a 103.8 fever and I wanted blood work and chest x-rays to confirm/deny pneumonia. They told me they could see me that day, come in at 6. I went in at 6pm and the doctor said "I don't know why you were told to come in this evening, the labs close at 5, you need to come back tomorrow" (keep in mind the high deductible insurance plan)

I went back the next day for blood work and chest xrays (STILL had the fever) and sure enough, I had pneumonia! But just to be safe, they wanted to do a follow up two days later (Friday) by than I was on the meds and the fever finally broke and I recovered.

But than a month later I also got bronchitis (and asthma) from my sensitive lungs. I got a ton of bills from the doctors office and after two months and speaking with a supervisor, they waived the amount I owed from the first two visits!

seamonkey789

I'm having my gall bladder out next month. First appointment, my surgeon looks over my cholesterol panel, goes over my diet and family history and informs me my gallstones are genetic.

I'm one of those people who have been playing yearly, daily sports since the age of 5. I'm all muscle. My BMI is high, but I wear a small in everything.

Follow up appointment with the surgeon, I ask him about a few pounds weight gain and ask him if my macros need to be changed from 40/30/30.

Some how, 30% fat means, I'm eating all fried foods, he basically calls me fat, and tells me I gave myself gallstones from over eating???

jenniejengin

interesting

BeautyFromPain

Told my dr that I am always tired and fatigued, she gave me blood tests and sent me on my way.

She told me they came back normal.. oh wait, except for the Glandular Fever which you never mentioned.

paigeup

A doctor gave me a serious complex when i was 17, weighed 135lbs at 5"4 and told me I was 15lbs over weight....Uhhh...that's a helathy BMI and back then I was mostly muscle...What the heck?!

I had the SAME experience (I was 14, 5'4", and 132lbs, she told me to lose 10lbs) She helped kick start my eating disorder.

BeautyFromPain

Oh, also I have very narrow ear canals so when they get blocked they are BLOCKED. i use drops for a week then go get them washed out by the dr. upon seeing a new GP cos mine was on a holiday walked in told him i needed my ears cleaned out and he just told me : no, i don't have time for that. and i still had to pay $75 for absolutely nothing. jerk.

Sharyn913

My son's teacher told me I was wrong when I approached her about him being bullied.I moved him out of that pre-school

Your son was being bullied in preschool? God, that is awful!! I would have demanded the phone numbers of the toddlers parents and asked for a sit down! Not okay!

ExplorinLauren

My doctor's perspective on my being overweight:

"If you're hungry, eat a cucumber."

Meaning literally that is all I should eat.

I don't think he meant it like that lol... sounds like he meant, instead of a cheeseburger, fries, icecream and chips, eat cucumber, or tomatoes, or strawberries. lol Not that I condone AT ALL how he spoke to you.. just saying what it sounds like to me

jayayach

My husband is Type I diabetic. He went to a doctor who checked his A1C and found it to be within normal range. The idiot told him to stop taking his insulin because he was no longer diabetic! He couldn't seem to understand the concept that his diabetes was under control - not cured. My husband found a new doctor rather quickly!

jayayach

OOh, I have another one!

I had severe pain in my lower abdomen on one side the day after Thanksgiving last year. I went to the ER and the doc did a pelvic exam and refused to do any other tests. She told me that I was just ovulating and that I should just go home, take advil, and have sex. I went home and tried to sleep. By morning, I couldn't move at all and my husband had to carry me to the car (quite a feat at my size!) because I couldn't walk due to the pain. I went back to the ER and the same doc was on duty. My husband not-so-politely requested that she do some sort of imaging test to look at what was going on. She found a huge mass and called in a specialist. Turns out both of my fallopian tubes were swollen - one was the size of a golf ball, the other had a 6 inch diameter. The specialist said that I was lucky it hadn't ruptured overnight and that if I had followed the ER doc's orders, it most likely would have. I ended up spending 5 days in the hospital on intensive antibiotic therapy. Three days before Christmas, I ended up having emergency surgery because the antibiotics had not worked. ER doc was an idiot and almost killed me because she didn't want to do her job. UGH!

Cold_Steel

I went to get a physical a few months ago when I had lost about 75 lbs and my doctor was so into it and so encouraging and all woohooo how do you do.

Then she said... "you know if you ever hit a road block with that we could prescribe you something to motivate your metabolism"

I had been with this doc for 2 years and not once did she try to push a pill on me and then she sees my weight loss then BAM !

Still with her because she is just an insanely good doctor but yeah pissed me off.

Kwika

My doctor told me that it was OK to eat only 600 calories for the day and do as much exercise as I could. I had done that once and when that summer after I did that was over, I gained it all back and then some. Fortunately I didn't listen to him. That was 30 pounds ago. I have done it all by myself with no help from him.

skullshank

"you should TOTALLY get in on facebook's IPO"


oh wait, we're talking health advice. sry :blushing:

mheightchew

OB when I was 7 months pregnant with my daughter~ "Eh. so you're stressed and your BP is up? Go home, smoke a bowl (of pot), take a hot bath and drink a glass of wine."
When he went on vacation the next week, I made an appointment to see his fill-in Dr. ~ My BP was fine.

ER Dr when my oldest son has a serious case of Croup at 15 months old~ "He's got a cold. Give him cough medicine."
8 hours later-
Second ER Dr. for son with Croup~ "It's the flu. Give him hot soup"
Another 8 hours later-
THIRD ER Dr. Same case of croup~ "My God! He's got the worst case of Croup I've ever SEEN! We need to get him on a breathing tube. Now."
Big thanks to the 3rd Dr. for listening. I told both previous Dr.s that this is what he had and home remedies were being ineffective. It's like some LAW that if you tell them what you're pretty sure they've got they look at you like the world's biggest idiot and diagnose something completely off base!

Orthopedic Dr. for a painful lump in my knee ~ It's just water in there, but were going to fly you to see a surgeon just in case.
Surgeon~ Looks like it could be cancer, let's cut it out. (resulted in a benign cyst and an odd formation of bone)

Pediatrician at my youngest sons 2 year check up "Put this kid on a diet. He's too big" (measurements had him the same size as a 4 year old in weight and height. My husband and I are both tall.) I got a new Dr. for him.

This sounds familiar. When my son was a year old he got a cold. I dealt with it but then it got worse. I kept taking him to he Dr andbthey kept telling me I was over reacting, it was just a cold. On new years day I called them and told them I was going to he er. They told me that they would jot authorize it. J told them I wasn't calling for permission, just needed to know which hospital. Got to the er where my baby son spent 1 week in ICU with double pneumonia, croup, bronchitis and RSV. Switched docs and have definitely learned to listen to my gut when it comes to my babies.

tashbowen1992

Last year, when I was in inpatients (bulimia recovery), my doctor put me on 1,000 calories. "You're not very tall, so you don't need to eat as much." I wanted to try and recover in 2010, so I went to my GP, he weighed me, I was 89lbs at the time, looked me up and down and said, "Wow well you carry well don't you." He told me to only eat fruit and vegetables, nothing else and he handed me some 'magic' pills, "These will make you stop making yourself sick because it's a stupid thing to do so you need to stop." What did he think I was trying to get help for!? Lol and my ex boyfriend, who is also a personal trainer tried to advise me on my calorie intake too, "You don't need to eat more than 700 calories, your body doesn't need it." Lol nice.

BeautyFromPain

I went to the ER the day before my bachelorette party in intense pain. I was practically writhing. I knew I had a family history of kidney stones, and due to the intense localized pain, I figured that's what it was. Upon arrival the nurse informed me that I couldn't have any pain medication until I took a pregnancy test. I was NOT pregnant, I was on birth control. Yet they demanded I take a test. I couldn't pee, so instead of letting me drink water because I was VERY thirsty, the gave me an IV. I was finally able to pee and obviously the test came back negative. So finally after nearly 4 hours of excrutiating pain, They gave me morphine. At some point before the morphine my "Doctor" came in and said that I wasn't writhing and flailing enough for it to be a kidney stone and it was probably an infection. One CT scan later, it happened to be TWO kidney stones and I am just very tough. Still owe nearly $7,000 for that.

I also had a 400 pound doctor (who couldn't be bothered to rise off of her wheeled stool to examine me, literally wheeled all over the room!) tell me that I needed to lose weight when I was 16! The hypocrisy!

ER's always do pregnancy tests. Even if a woman is on birth control she can still be pregnant. It's better to be safe than sorry, since many medications can cause serious complications for pregnancies, birth defects, etc.

This is very true - it's a precaution. I had my gall bladder out when my oldest was like a month old...and yes, I had a pg test. I had CT scan when #2 was about a week old - and yes, I had a pg test (which, of course, was positive...)

I was positive I wasn't pregnant because I was on my period. Also, now that I am off of birth control I have infertility issues. So there was no chance.

You can be bleeding and have full period symptoms and still be pregnant. So, that is really not a good enough reason not to administer the test.

yeh, when I was 11 I was put onto roaccutane cause my skin was so horrible and had to have a pregnancy test as could cause severe deformities.... i hadn't even gotten my period yet?!

samntha14

A trainer told my cousin she was too fat to do a cardio kickboxing class. I have been very fortunate, and my Dr.s are fully on board with everything that I DECIDED I was doing and are amazingly happy with the progress I've made.

DianneBoo

I was being treated for having had a stroke and I han't had one! I had developed a secnodary infection from strep throat that had never been treated! Took me close to ayear to recover....and I NEVER set foot in that Dr.'s office again!

samntha14

I was on the pill when I got pregnant with my first and had three periods. I was 13 weeks before they confirmed the pregnancy...finally threw up the next day. Always better to be safe.

eillamarie

A Level 4 (2nd highest ranking) swim coach told me that if I missed a practice (due to being very sick, injury, just too plain exhausted) that I would have to "start from the beginning". I was overtraining and exhaused and I got sick all the time. Instead of just modifying my training I was starting over every week or two....so ya....that worked real well.......

BeautyFromPain

I'm training to become a Certified Personal Trainer and in my second nutrition lesson my teacher told us noone over the age of five should EVER consume full fat milk. umm yeah don't take into account it is less processed than skim, sure skim has less calories but if it fits in your cals who cares. oh and she also told me that you only need 10% protein. haha, it was funny i spoke back to her telling her she was wrong. shoulda seen her face.

jerknoir

It's horrible how many eating disorder specialists don't know what the hell they're doing. When I was working with them, my nutritionist basically said that vegetarianism is an eating disordered behavior. Various other unprofessional nonsense went on there that had more to do with mental health than physical.

Awkward30

Soon after starting to work out and track my food, I got insomnia. This happens to me a few times a year. I went to the doctor and she gave me a mental health survey, then said despite the survey results not agreeing, I'm depressed. I said, I've recently been exercising, that would be a treatment for depression, right? She said yes but she was sure I was depressed about being overweight.

I am now pretty sure I just screwed up my sleeping pattern doing two-a-days at the gym and napping after the morning session. Two nights of OTC sleeping pills got me on track.

Another of my friends was told by the same doctor she must be bipolar, and the med students (this doctor was on the campus of the med school) told me she only has two diagnoses: depression or STI. Kinda wish she tried to tell me the sleeping problems were due to the clap or something lol

jilltaylor86

I was seeing a nutritionist for awhile and it turned out to be a huge waste of time and money...all her knowledge of nutrition was outdated and I actually knew more than she did. She did not give me a diet plan or exercise plan, just told me to eat less, etc. I went several times and the hour was spent talking about her daughter instead of nutrition advice. This cost over 400 dollars and that was the only thing I lost. She also looked up what my daily calorin intake should be on some shoddy search engine like jeeves or yahoo.

Monife

A dietician told me to stop counting calories and stop weighing carbs and to focus on fresh foods, fair enough, but doesn't work if you are an over eater like me, which I had explained to her. I need some form of control.