Ever get bad advice from a professional?

I had a Nephrologist (kidney specialist) tell me my kidney is just normally swollen and the pain in my flank was because of extra weight and I should lose a few pounds. Had nothing to do with the 2.2cm stone stuck in my ureter that sent me to emergency surgery a week later!

Had a personal trainer advise me to eat 6 small meals a day and use the machines instead of free weights. Fortunately I was not paying him and that one free session was enough to put me off joining that gym.

The worst advice I get from people & professionals: eat more protein, less carbohydrates, because carbohydrates turns in to sugar in your body, there for it considered bad for you. This screwed me up for ages. How can people go on diet without eating carbohydrates, if this is what give us energy? One time I got to the point that I would eat porridge only in the morning, then meat, protein shakes and vegetables through the day. Which outcome in colossal loss of energy for me, doesn't matter how much I ate of non-carbohydrate food!. I'd end up craving and eating tonnes of fruits by the end of the day, thinking - fruits are good, right? I'm not eating anything sweet through the day, so I should be fine. With that, though, I never lost weights, because I ate too many fruits to substitute craving for carbohydrates, and fruits still have sugars in them. On the top of that I always got bloated stomach, which annoyed me. I worked out at the gym like crazy, I'd get to the point of almost fainting, but I just did not loose weight! Anyways, I had to change my food plan. I'm eating enough different grains now through the day to keep me going, around 60-70% of my diet are grains. My stomach got really flat. I'm loosing weight. And the best thing I don't crave fruits as much, as I used to. In fact I don't crave any sugar that all. .. So whoever came up with this more protein thing, less carbohydrates. It is dumbest idea ever.

Merkavar wrote: »

azulvioleta6 wrote: »

Wow Merkavar, a face update! You look 20 years younger!

Thanks

I've been waiting to see that. Looking good!

If a dentist tells you you need a crown on a tooth that has never given you a bit of trouble, get a second opinion >.<

I once asked a doctor about the potential side effects of the carpal tunnel surgery he was recommending and he told me to look it up in the medical library >.< I had acupuncture rather than the procedure, and stopped doing the repetitive motion. My coworkers who did have the procedure were not happy with the results.

What's wrong with eating six times a day in small portions? I've been doing that for couple of months now. Although, mostly its 5 times a day. The theory behind it, is that if you eat two or three times a day, you can get to the point when you feel really hungry. And when you finally consume food, your body most certainly would want to store some food/fat on side, just in case if it will go in to hunger mode again. Our body is smart machine on its own If you eat 6-8 times a day, your body doesn't experience hunger as much, there for it doesn't store any fat. It doesn't need to, it remembers that in two or three hours there will be another portion of food. And second, because you eat in small portions, your stomach will shrink. In couple of month, you just won't be able to consume big portions as before

sucampbeN wrote: »

Had a personal trainer advise me to eat 6 small meals a day and use the machines instead of free weights. Fortunately I was not paying him and that one free session was enough to put me off joining that gym.

My doctor tried telling me that in order to lose weight, I just need to add a zero to whatever I want to weigh in a year and then eat that many calories. Not factoring in age, height, current weight, activity level, or even if the goal weight is healthy. I even brought up what that would mean if I wanted to be 100lbs (totally unrealistic and unhealthy for my height). "just eat 1000 calories a day for the next year." I switched doctors.

I went to an RD/MSN/LCSW for an ED issue that I've had since I was 11 years old. After 9 months with her, I had gained about 10 lbs trying to work on "re-feeding" and I had an appointment with my OBGYN. I had been blind-weighing with my specialist and told my doctor under no uncertain terms is she to discuss weight with me. I'm working with a specialist.
She proceeded to give me a calorie counting brochure and call me obese - my BMI was 26. I left there crying and never went back to my nutritional therapy again.

Professionals are just like everyone else. Some are good at their job and some are bad at their job. Just because they have an MD after their name doesn't make them a super human.

FYI, medical school spends a dismal amount of time on the basics of nutrition and weight loss. Most doctors don't know much more than the public on the subject.

Nutritionists are a dime a dozen. Anyone can be certified as a nutritionist online. If you really want advice from a professional, seek out a registered dietician.

Hoo boy...there's two big ones that come to mind.

First bad guy was a dentist when I was a kid. In a period of about a year or 2 he drilled every single tooth in my head except the bottom 4, and over drilled them so that there wasn't enough tooth integrity to hold the fillings, and over time they all fell out. When I was about 18 I called my dad to get my records from that dentist when I was trying to get all his *kitten* work re-done, and he told me that he had his license taken away for performing unnecessary work on his patients, and according to my first xray there (that I brought to the new dentist) I only had 3 small cavities when I first went to see that guy. Pretty much my entire adult life has been spent trying to have enough money to get all of that fixed before it got worse, with many years of not being able to afford it and having a total of 5 root canals, 3 of which were being re-done on one's he'd done. At one point I spent 4 days and nights with an abscessed tooth before anyone would agree to see me (aka my definition of hell). I ended up with a cyst in my sinuses from a poorly done root canal he did, and i've had the back 2 molars completely removed because they couldn't be saved. It's a gorram nightmare. In trying to find a dentist who's willing to take ON that much work, it's been demoralizing and frustrating. I actually had one tell me that he hoped I had grandparents who'd die and leave me money so I could afford what he wanted to do, which was to remove all my teeth and give me dentures. *kitten*.
Thankfully I found a wonderful dentist who worked with me and listened to me and i'm 80% done with everything that was wrong, finally, at 30 years old. All I need now are 3 crowns put on some build ups I have, and a couple small cavities, everything else would be purely cosmetic (since the filling he used doesn't actually match my tooth color in the front) but I don't care much about that part.

The other is when I was 14, I started having horrible mid/upper abdominal pain that shot straight through my back. These episodes would come and go, and last anywhere from half an hour to 5 hours. When I was 16 it was so bad I ended up in the ER (waiting for 5 hours, vomiting and passing out, the whole 9 yards) and the surgeon on call wanted to take out my appendix, before any tests at all had be done to me. (found out later from my aunt who works at that hospital that he was drunk and she'd never have let him touch me anyway)
They took some blood and did an ultrasound of my LOWER abdomen because they just assumed I was on my period. Then they asked if I was sexually active, I said no (because I wasn't yet) and the guy said "dont lie just because your parents are here." Ugh. (this was after they already did a vaginal ultrasound btw) I had high blood levels but they couldn't figure it out so they kept me overnight then sent me home. Because of that experience, every time it happened I just wrapped a heat blanket around my abdomen and stayed in bed, whimpering. Fast forward over 10 years, and I end up at my rheumatologist, and I happen to bring up all that mystery pain to see if he has any idea. I get every test known to man on all my insidey parts, and guess what? It's my freaking pancreas. My grandmother has pancreatic cancer, and mine has been randomly flaring up for over half my life. There are no tumors or growths or anything odd about it other than occasionally it will develop a lesion and hurt like hell. Currently my rhemy thinks it's related to my autoimmune disease, which is weird since it only really effects my connective tissue.
Since finding my rheumy I haven't had an attack in almost 3 years, which is freaking unbelievable.