Conditions!!?

shmoony
shmoony Posts: 237 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I am starting to think I am the only person on this forum that doesn't have some sort of medical condition! Glandular problems, irratable bowels, wheat allergies, milk allergies, crohn's disease, arthritis, gall bladder issues, etc., etc., etc. I don't know a single person in my personal life who has any of these issues, but somehow it seems like the majority of people on here suffer from one or more condition. Is it coincidence, doctors over diagnosing to push drugs, everyone making excuses for why they can't lose weight, or part of todays society where people need to have something wrong with them to feel special? It seems like every original post starts with height, weight, age, and health issue. MFP should include this as a profile category.
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  • tricksee
    tricksee Posts: 835 Member
    It's statistically more likely you'll find people with health conditions on a weight-loss forum as those conditions can attribute to high weight.

    Maybe if you joined a footballing/bodybuilding/athletics forum, you'd find people as perfect as you?
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    I would say it's because we've moved past an era where doctors pegged illness on demon possession and treated ailments with leeches. We know more now, therefore we are better equipped to deal with it on a medical scale.
  • christimccarty
    christimccarty Posts: 81
    well thats kind of deflating for those that have problems! I will say that I'm sure you see more of it hear because the people that have extra to deal with need extra support... and they know where to find it!
  • fattyfoodie
    fattyfoodie Posts: 232 Member
    It's statistically more likely you'll find people with health conditions on a weight-loss forum as those conditions can attribute to high weight.

    Maybe if you joined a footballing/bodybuilding/athletics forum, you'd find people as perfect as you?

    ^^WORD.
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    Consider yourself very lucky then.
  • Lulzaroonie
    Lulzaroonie Posts: 222 Member
    ~Well done you for being so perfect and healthy, and shame on all of us ill people who want nothing more to lose weight to help alleviate symptoms, or improve quality of our lives. *cough* *splutter*
  • Freyja2023
    Freyja2023 Posts: 158 Member
    wow don't know it you intended it to be so mean and rude, but it sure sounds like that. I was diagnosed with crohn's disease 12 years ago and I can say that it in no way has ever made me feel 'special'. It may be that the people who are talking about their conditions here feel like it is a safe place to do that. It can get hard to talk about a medical condition in the 'real' world, but here you can find others with the same conditions and find the support you need to get up each day and face the day.
  • drchimpanzee
    drchimpanzee Posts: 892 Member
    I would say it's because we've moved past an era where doctors pegged illness on demon possession and treated ailments with leeches. We know more now, therefore we are better equipped to deal with it on a medical scale.

    I don't know about you but three of my four humors are out of balance.
  • shmoony
    shmoony Posts: 237 Member
    ~Well done you for being so perfect and healthy,

    Thank you
  • twelfty
    twelfty Posts: 576 Member
    i'm healthy but pretty crazy lol do i count?
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    I am starting to think I am the only person on this forum that doesn't have some sort of medical condition! Glandular problems, irratable bowels, wheat allergies, milk allergies, crohn's disease, arthritis, gall bladder issues, etc., etc., etc. I don't know a single person in my personal life who has any of these issues, but somehow it seems like the majority of people on here suffer from one or more condition. Is it coincidence, doctors over diagnosing to push drugs, everyone making excuses for why they can't lose weight, or part of todays society where people need to have something wrong with them to feel special? It seems like every original post starts with height, weight, age, and health issue. MFP should include this as a profile category.
    Is your condition being bad at math and probabilities?:laugh:
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    I would say it's because we've moved past an era where doctors pegged illness on demon possession and treated ailments with leeches. We know more now, therefore we are better equipped to deal with it on a medical scale.

    I don't know about you but three of my four humors are out of balance.

    Lol! Perhaps I just need to bleed out the bad blood in my system. That should do the trick!
    i'm healthy but pretty crazy lol do i count?

    Yes. Many of us have mental health conditions that make diet and exercise more difficult. But we're in this together!
  • SydneyRenee2
    SydneyRenee2 Posts: 49 Member
    It's statistically more likely you'll find people with health conditions on a weight-loss forum as those conditions can attribute to high weight.

    Maybe if you joined a footballing/bodybuilding/athletics forum, you'd find people as perfect as you?

    ^^^^Well said
  • jenns1964
    jenns1964 Posts: 384 Member
    There are more of us with serious medical conditions than you know. You'd be amazed that some of your friends may suffer from something that they don't care to share with you. I do not want nor need attention. I do not use my illness as a reason for being overweight,although it is a contributing factor. I am pushing my body and mind to do things that are very painful for me, but necessary to get where I need to be, and I do it without excuses. I am special regardless of my medical condition. You should be incredibly grateful that you do not have serious a medical condition. We who suffer with chronic illness have found our voices to speak out. Maybe closedmindedness is your condition. Maybe you can get your own catergory for that.
  • 714rah714
    714rah714 Posts: 759 Member
    OP must've crawl out from under the wrong side of the rock this morning.
  • shmoony
    shmoony Posts: 237 Member
    I am starting to think I am the only person on this forum that doesn't have some sort of medical condition! Glandular problems, irratable bowels, wheat allergies, milk allergies, crohn's disease, arthritis, gall bladder issues, etc., etc., etc. I don't know a single person in my personal life who has any of these issues, but somehow it seems like the majority of people on here suffer from one or more condition. Is it coincidence, doctors over diagnosing to push drugs, everyone making excuses for why they can't lose weight, or part of todays society where people need to have something wrong with them to feel special? It seems like every original post starts with height, weight, age, and health issue. MFP should include this as a profile category.
    Is your condition being bad at math and probabilities?:laugh:

    Good at math and even better at hyperbolating
  • twelfty
    twelfty Posts: 576 Member
    mines anxiety, though i've been prescribed meds etc i've found making some big changes in life i don't need them :)
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    This thread gave me a case of the vapors. Good thing I had a fainting couch nearby to swoon upon.
  • KevinsCatie
    KevinsCatie Posts: 137 Member
    Did you ever think that prehaps some of those problems where brought on by the high weight those people are here to get help to lose? Or that they are more suseptable to those ailments because of their high weight, and want to lose the weight to relieve their ailments? Or maybe that you insensitive and have done nothing more than to make those people feel worse about themselves due to your comment?!

    On a side note, I have no reason for being in the shape I am right now other than the fact that I have been lazy for the past 2 years after I got out of the Marine Corps and had a baby. So you see, even those that are perfectly healthy can need help losing weight. But even at my heaviest of 185, I would never make anyone feel bad about something they can't control, like a health problem!
  • Rivers2k
    Rivers2k Posts: 380 Member
    I developed lactose intolerance while I was in the Marines (Best shape of my life's) But if it is all in my head I welcome you to have a glass of milk with me and lock the door. The fumes will have you crying for mercy!
  • bacitracin
    bacitracin Posts: 921 Member
    I don't have conditions, which means I don't talk about it all the time, and you don't see it. Don't get all dunning-kruger on us now.
  • palmerar
    palmerar Posts: 489 Member
    I think people on here are more open about those type of issues because they don't want to talk to (bore) their friends or family with complaints. I know a lot of people in my life are not nearly as concerned about what they eat or when they exercise or being healthy as I am and for me to talk about macros, calories, calorie burn, and how my digestive issues effect it would be gross and boring. THis is a website designed to talk to others with the same interest in eating healthy in healthy protions and exercising so people are more in tune with those types of issues.
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member
    This thread gave me a case of the vapors. Good thing I had a fainting couch nearby to swoon upon.

    Jealous! All I have is my cat hair covered couch with its torn upholstery. Fainting couches are just so much classier! :laugh:
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    I am starting to think I am the only person on this forum that doesn't have some sort of medical condition! Glandular problems, irratable bowels, wheat allergies, milk allergies, crohn's disease, arthritis, gall bladder issues, etc., etc., etc. I don't know a single person in my personal life who has any of these issues, but somehow it seems like the majority of people on here suffer from one or more condition. Is it coincidence, doctors over diagnosing to push drugs, everyone making excuses for why they can't lose weight, or part of todays society where people need to have something wrong with them to feel special? It seems like every original post starts with height, weight, age, and health issue. MFP should include this as a profile category.
    Is your condition being bad at math and probabilities?:laugh:

    Good at math and even better at hyperbolating
    If there are 1000 various conditions each of which a person has a random 1 in 200 chance of having, how likely is one to not have ANY condition?
  • theCarlton
    theCarlton Posts: 1,344 Member
    I would say it's because we've moved past an era where doctors pegged illness on demon possession and treated ailments with leeches. We know more now, therefore we are better equipped to deal with it on a medical scale.
    This.

    I'm thinking doctors of the 1950's probably wouldn't give a *kitten* if my heart was racing, hair was falling out, and I couldn't eat enough due to the nodules on my thyroid. Why? Because the ultrasound hadn't been invented until late in the decade and they couldn't see them and likely didn't realize they were interacting with my pituitary gland. Pretty sure I didn't choose an iodine radiation treatment just so I could feel special being medicated for the rest of my life.

    I'm also pretty sure I didn't make up the conditions that led to my infertility as well. But thanks for your well-worded, incredibly intelligent post. Thanks to the miracles of modern medicine, I'm managing just fine.
  • llkilgore
    llkilgore Posts: 1,169 Member
    Unless you hand out questionnaires, how can you be sure that you don't know a single person in your personal life who has any of these issues?
  • megsmom2
    megsmom2 Posts: 2,362 Member
    I have an ingrown toenail.......
    seriously though.....these "conditions" are very real and very impactful for the people who have them. They are not the trendy disease of the week for them. Nice of you to be so sympathetic. Not.
  • quirkytizzy
    quirkytizzy Posts: 4,052 Member


    Good at math and even better at hyperbolating

    I'm thinking more better at hyperbole - and a rather crass and uneducated version at that.
  • stephanj
    stephanj Posts: 898 Member
    OP people in your personal life aren't telling you, because they know you will judge them.
  • MindyG150
    MindyG150 Posts: 1,296 Member
    I don't know how old you are, but believe me...excess weight with age catches up...it's only a matter of time. In your 20’s it’s no fun, in your 30’s you learn to live with it, in your 40’s you’ll slow down and once 50 hits it’s all over but the trip to the pharmacy. So do yourself a huge favor, lose the weight.
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