Your Doctor give it to you straight?

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  • Kst76
    Kst76 Posts: 935 Member
    JaydedMiss wrote: »
    my doctor never told me anything. Shes a great doc to. I lost 110 pounds so i must have needed to lose but my blood and all tests were perfect so i guess she never felt the need

    My husband is like that. All his tests were perfect. His bp was low, no signs of diabetes, lipids low. And he weighs almost 300 pounds. lol The thing is, when you are that big...you know you need to lose weight. No doctor needs to tell you this.
  • jaedwa1
    jaedwa1 Posts: 114 Member
    I gained 95 lbs over two years. I avoided going to the doc because I was embarrassed. I finally gave in and my extremely kind, yet firm, PCM really hit home when she said, "You're young enough to turn this bus around and undo any damage. However, if you do nothing, I want you to understand, this is the best you will feel for the rest of your life."

    I turned the bus around and have lost 27 lbs so far. I saw my PCM at the market and she ran over to hug me and I let her know her words are still rattling around in my head when I lose motivation...
  • PixelPuff
    PixelPuff Posts: 902 Member
    Tough love, considering I was having health issues that turned out to be related to my weight. I only found out I was obese because I saw it on my chart notes one day... So I googled and learned about BMI, calories, etc. Yeah, I'd been obese for a while. He said nothing despite many doctor visits. Not even mention of diet... That only came up when I began vomiting blood, and he had me stop eating spicy foods & acids (including any soda) for a month to see if it would clear it up. e .e It did. I also lost 15lbs from just that.
  • HitTheRoad
    HitTheRoad Posts: 7 Member
    This is an interesting topic. I’m an RN in a pediatric office. So many parents call our office after their child/teen’s checkup and are furious because the doctor brought up the child/teen’s weight and thought it was inappropriate to discuss in front of a kid. I have overheard some of the discussions, and I have yet to hear one of our doctors talk about weight in a hurtful or judgmental way. Just brought up as far as general health.

    I notice more often that the doctor doesn’t bring up weight. They either think the kids will outgrow it (maybe some will), or they’re just a little chunky, but not enough to cause health problems, or the docs know they’ll get that call from a mad parent.

    I notice they are more likely to bring it up if the child was previously normal weight and gained a ton in between checkups.

    The worst advice I hear from these doctors though is just to “keep them active,” when a kid is overweight. I think a kid is almost as unlikely to outrun a bad diet as an adult is (especially teens who are basically done growing).
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    I see an advanced care nurse practitioner, and she had been at me for years to exercise, but once my weight passed the 200 pound mark, she mentioned losing weight and laid it out quite clearly that I simply needed to control calories to do that.
  • Tetrelle
    Tetrelle Posts: 75 Member
    edited October 2017
    *Raises her hand* Yup. Doctor said with my other conditions I'm in big trouble. Not going to say what he recommended, since on another recent discussion I got freaking hounded about it, but what he recommended worked. I've completely eliminated two of my medical issues, and the others are improving, and I'm losing weight again. Woo!

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