Worst advice given to you by a "professional"

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...)

Yes, true. Even if you are gay and married to another woman. I find that a little silly, but hey, whatever!

Mine isn't weight loss or fitness related. I had 2 impacted wisdom teeth removed a few months ago. The teeh were not even capped and still inside of my gums. Instead of giving me a general anesthetic, the surgeon injected me with 7 or 8 shots of Novocaine. :sick:

lol.

A trainer at my gym tells me I should go to another site where they have a smith machine to do my squats. My Dr. is better actually, and we had a lengthy discussion on rep ranges, percieved weight (heavy/light) and the benefits of lean mass conversation. He's not a believer in BMI and has a little chart up above his desk that states what calorie intake people should be having to lose weight at a reasonable rate - he had someone my height and weight at 2500, so only a little lower than what I set myself. Seems I always read about US doctors recommending 1200/500 cal diets :P

Ironanimal, I agree with you. I firmly believe that our allopathic physicians are taught to advise such low calorie diets because of the obesity epidemic in the U.S. It is estimated that a majority of Americans do not exercise enough (or even at all!), and overeat processed foods, which convert readily into fatty deposits since underused muscles have no need for extra glucose in the blood.

So it's entirely possible that the ridiculous numbers we see from the FDA and doctors in this country are to try to help set limits for those who are way beyond understanding how the body works. As many are saying on this thread, the best results come from those who learn their limits and know how to discern when horrible advice is given by these "professionals".

Great thread!
Steve

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.

Several times I've gone to the ER over an asthma attack, chest pains, or the time I pulled my calf muscles and I've had doctors that wouldn't even examine me or ask to hear what was wrong. The first words out of their mouths would be, "it's because you're fat." And yes the chest pains could've been that, but seeing as I've had asthma since childhood and I wasn't an overweight child that was ridiculous.

I had a physician, when I had horrid tonsil stones and tonsils so big I was having trouble swallowing even liquid, take a look at them and just shrug and tell me that some people have big tonsils I would just have to live with them and the stones. (and believe me, you don't want to. They're balls of bacteria and rotten food that's been stuck in a "pore" in the tonsil that gets coughed up at random)

I had a therapist, after being with her associated psychiatrist for two years and still having problems, tell me that I was obviously enjoying being miserable and was showing sadistic behavior by dragging her, the psychiatrist, and everyone else into my self-made misery. Said psychiatrist believed I was an overweight drug addict who wouldn't admit to it (no idea how she got this impression) and every time a drug wouldn't work she would shrug and tell me to admit myself to the psych ward because obviously I wasn't cooperating.

Another physician, in an attempt to get me to lose weight because I had high cholesterol, put me on a diet that in turn made me borderline anemic because I hadn't eaten anything with iron in it for 8 months. I gained everything back just trying to get my levels right.

My mother-in-law (who doesn't like me much) told me to eat nothing but pork rinds and water. That's right, pork rinds and water :grumble: and the reason was that if you mixed the two somehow it would keep you full all day. That when you put the two together the water makes the pork rinds expand and !TADA! you are full. I told her I would. :noway: I think my way has been much better. :drinker:

You did say in your post that she doesn't like you that much so she must have suggested it in a mean spirited way! or something lol. Jeez. I think this is the funniest of all even though it's not from a professional.

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.

Yep. And unless you've had a hysterectomy, they're going to do it because from a medical standpoint, there is always a chance that you're pregnant.

I also once had a trainer tell me to do the master cleanse. I only lasted 3 days

Ha! I did the master cleanse once....for 27 days!!!! I LOVED it. Scary.

I was told that the reason I wasn't losing the weight I should was because I was drinking too much water. How the heck do you drink TOO MUCH water?????

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.

Not only that, but a hell of a lot of people take birth control pills incorrectly or something else.

Let's put it this way -- if the hospital gives someone a treatment that causes a birth defect in a child, whether or not the mother swore up or down she couldn't possibly be pregnant, the hospital is gonna get sued. And they'll probably lose. Pregnancy tests are usually pretty quick and a reasonable safeguard.

not diet related but....i was 28 weeks pregnant, and every single time i had anything to eat my body rejected it, it didnt matter what type of food it was nothing would stay inside me, two different doctors told me it was fine just to drink plenty of water and stay hydrated, my midwife told me it was because i was pregnant (had 3 kids before and never felt like that), i just plodded on forcing myself to eat small amounts only to be getting rid of it an hour later, at 35 weeks pregnant i begged a different doctor to check me over as honestly i thought i was dying, he did all sorts of blood tests and found out i was vitamin b12 deficient but i was that far gone with it that i had become in danger of my organs shutting down!!!!! turns out my body wasn't just not absorbing vitamin b12 but it was attacking it to get it out my body fast, and as a result i was starving, he prescribed daily high dose injections for 3 weeks, after the first few days i was able to eat without it coming straight back out, after 2 weeks i felt fine (was still funny with meat though it tasted "off" all the time) i had my baby in october, but didnt fully recover my appetite until she was 5 months old, for the rest of my life i have to have injections every 3 months, it makes me sick thinking about what could have happened if i had listened to the first 3 professionals

Not really ADVICE but...
When I was about 4 years old my Grandmother took me to the doctor because I was sick (I don't remember what I had, doesn't really matter lol) anyway, he prescribed me some medication and sent me on my way. My Grandma got busy doing something with my sister and forgot to give me the medication. My Mom is a nurse and when she came home from work and took a look at the pills she realized that he had prescribed me the ADULT dose and the HIGHEST adult dose at that. At 4 years old and pretty small for my age, if I had taken it I probably would have had a cardiac arrest. Thanks doc!! lol

Female GP told me not to worry about gaining weight at my age (I was 50) because it was hormone related and there was nothing I could do about it....stupid, stupid woman!!!

By far the "Just take this/these pills as prescibed"

With the HRT, he got ANGRY when I asked him why, what would happen if I didn't, if it was different for each woman. He got MAD......I tore it up and 12 years later I m healthy.

They do not teach nutrition in medical school. probably should just consult nutritionist is that is what you are looking for. Doctors just do their best to help....eat less, exercise more is the mantra we follow

When I was 17 my doctor told me I was FAT (with a capital F!). I was 5'7", weighed 125. (The Dr. was probably 6', weighed 300+ and smoked while examing me... Ya, I'm dating myself..lol)

Talk about being in diet H*%L ever since.. Now I dream about being that weight or even close to it.