Conditions!!?

I have Hyperlegumeflatulentobia. When I eat lots of beans I fart. Legit disease. There's a 5K for it and everything.

I have Hyperlegumeflatulentobia. When I eat lots of beans I fart. Legit disease. There's a 5K for it and everything.

it doesn't come up in google :S it says it needs spaces and just shows up a load of science pages about farting lol

crass yes, sarcastic definitely, uneducated no

Surely if you were educated you would realize the million and one ways the human body can go wrong? Or is it just willful ignorance that keeps you in your comfortable, insulated, and condescending bubble?

In a final and more serious response to the outpouring of sensitive souls, there is no denying that our society has made a drastic turn in the last two decades towards throwing pharmecueticals at everyone who walk through the door. Whether this is due to the availability of drugs, the lining of the pockets of drug company execs, or the increase in diagnostics, I don't know. What I do know is that many people look for excuses, not just when it comes to weight loss. If you're not one of those people, then don't worry about it. I never denied the existance of said issues. If you are, you deserve an insensitive reminder. Sorry. Now put the cookie down and stop googling "thyroid and weightloss".

There's no need to be insensitive about anything. You tried to drive sense into those looking for excuses but what you actually did is offend people with conditions beyond their control. My mother in law suffers from RA, something that she could not have controlled that makes it difficult for her to even get out of bed each morning. Now am I going to go and be insensitive with her and say "tough it out" - no. I would appreciate her for having the willpower to get out of bed each morning, eliminate entire food groups from her diet just to ease her condition and go through the day with a smile. It is tough, very very tough for some. The fact that they are here means they are doing something in the right direction and it is something to be appreciated and not ridiculed.

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 are an insensitive prick 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 control, like a health problem!

For me the above it partly true, and while I cannot speak for everyone out their I was diagnosed with IBS while I was at a healthy weight of 135lbs (my goal weight), I have noticed that bad food choices (processed food over fresh) and lack of exercise does make it worse, so perhaps the cause for the increase in some of these types of illnesses could be related to modern lifestyles? just a thought based on how mine reacts, everyone is different in cause and triggers so this may not be true for all,

I also know my mum's IBS is worse due to doctors who give bad advice and far to many pills over the years and a lack of exercise.

As for my own weight issues, is my own lack of exercise and listening to bad doctors rather than my own body knowing full well exercise we good.

OP people in your personal life aren't telling you, because they know you will judge them.

Yup - given OP attitude, I can see that being true

crass yes, sarcastic definitely, uneducated no

Surely if you were educated you would realize the million and one ways the human body can go wrong? Or is it just willful ignorance that keeps you in your comfortable, insulated, and condescending bubble?

In a final and more serious response to the outpouring of sensitive souls, there is no denying that our society has made a drastic turn in the last two decades towards throwing pharmecueticals at everyone who walk through the door. Whether this is due to the availability of drugs, the lining of the pockets of drug company execs, or the increase in diagnostics, I don't know. What I do know is that many people look for excuses, not just when it comes to weight loss. If you're not one of those people, then don't worry about it. I never denied the existance of said issues. If you are, you deserve an insensitive reminder. Sorry. Now put the cookie down and stop googling "thyroid and weightloss".

I don't know about where you come from but where I am a doctor doesn't prescribe drugs unless the patient needs them after extensive tests and diagnosis.
Many people are on this website trying desperately to minimise the meds they HAVE to take in order to be able to just live.

However, I will be gracious and understanding of your ignorance and just say that may God help you if you develop any "condition" in later life that might require any treatment. I hope that people will treat you better than you treat others although I have heard it said that what goes around, comes around ...

crass yes, sarcastic definitely, uneducated no

Surely if you were educated you would realize the million and one ways the human body can go wrong? Or is it just willful ignorance that keeps you in your comfortable, insulated, and condescending bubble?

In a final and more serious response to the outpouring of sensitive souls, there is no denying that our society has made a drastic turn in the last two decades towards throwing pharmecueticals at everyone who walk through the door. Whether this is due to the availability of drugs, the lining of the pockets of drug company execs, or the increase in diagnostics, I don't know. What I do know is that many people look for excuses, not just when it comes to weight loss. If you're not one of those people, then don't worry about it. I never denied the existance of said issues. If you are, you deserve an insensitive reminder. Sorry. Now put the cookie down and stop googling "thyroid and weightloss".

Wow! As someone who has suffered with hypothyroidism for years before I finally gave in to go see the dr you sir, are woefully uninformed. I've come across lots of fellow sufferers who are clearly undertreated by their endos or GPs. Until someone's levels are optimized (optimized and not just in range), good luck trying to lose weight. Google was my ally during my fight to get my levels optimized. I argued my way to an optimal dosage. My dr only cared to get me 'in range'. There was never a cookie in my hand while I was reading journal article after journal article and building my case to justify my requests for increases. If my dr had his way, I'd be on a much lower dosage barely able to function with my hair falling out, extreme brain fog and fatigue 24/7 that made a load of laundry look like a task requiring Herculean strength. Thankfully, he agreed to my requests (hard to argue with peer reviewed articles) and I made incremental steps towards euthyroidism.

I'm now applying that same vigor to losing the hypo weight and yes, I've googled "thyroid and weightloss" (no cookie in hand-again!). Why wouldn't I take advantage of that? I'm confident that this time next year, I will have transformed my body. I lift heavy with a personal trainer and weigh and measure all of my food.

It's clear you take your energy for granted. All a hypo person wants is to have that energy you enjoy every day without thinking about it.