Worst advice given to you by a "professional"
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Several yrs ago I had noticed a new strange bump on my back right shoulder. It didn't go away, so of course, I went to my family phys to have it chkd. I was told it was a cyst. Don't worry about it. Several months later, it was still there and turned bluish colored. Went back to same doc. Again told it was nothing, he wouldn't even remove it. I "had a feeling" and kept pestering him until he referred me to another doc. This doc also told me it was a cyst but due to my persistance he removed it. After the normal biopsy was completed, the doc realized this was no ordinary bump and sent me to James Cancer Center in Columbus, Ohio. Yep, cancer. Cutaneous Leiomyosarcoma to be exact. I'm cancer free now and thankfully because it was caught so early, I didn't need any chemo/radiation.
Yeah.....good thing I listened to my gut instinct and not the professionals. SO thankful for that!
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A gynecologist once told me that, for my intense periods when I was 14, she couldn't put me on birth control but I could have a hormonal period controller. When it gave me mood swings, she suggested I see a therapist.
Then of course my mother dragged me to a counselor and a psychiatrist, who kicked me out of her office after five minutes for "interrupting" and said there was no way I could not be depressed and that I needed medication immediately. Didn't ever get it, I'm fine now. I mean, everyone has bad days and I have anxiety issues sometimes, but I am absolutely not clinically depressed.
I've mostly had trouble with doctors, but never fitness/nutrition stuff. I asked my pediatrician in 6th grade how much people should weigh, and she told me about 100 lbs at 5'0, and for every inch add or subtract 5 pounds. That's stuck with me for a while. It may be true, I have no idea, but it's made it suck for me because 85 pounds on me is nearly impossible to achieve but it's hard for me to mentally get rid of that number.0 -
My favourite gynecologist, bless her soul got Breast cancer and stopped practicing, so I went to see her colleague about my PCOS. She told me that I was going to get cancer and die. Yep.
On a lighter note, my trainer told me not to eat carbs at dinner. I understand not overloading on carbs at dinner, but cutting them out altogether? That's stupid. Especially since I normally don't feel quite satisfied unless there's a small amount of carbs to accompany the protein!0 -
I forgot about breaking my collarbone in 6th grade. I fell in the driveway and landed on my side. The pain was unbearable and I couldn't move my shoulder. I went next door to my grandmother's and my great-aunt who is a nurse checked me out. She told me it was just bone bruising and there was no way it was broken. I tried every muscle cream, OTC painkiller, etc, possible because nobody believed that it was broken because of her. It took my mom four days to take me to the doctor for an x-ray.0
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When I was 20 weeks pregnant with my son I started itching, but a doctor told me it was PUPPPS (a skin condition you get when you're pregnant). After 2 weeks of scratching myself to bleeding and crying I went to the ER.... the ER doc came in for 2 seconds and told me I had some problem I can't even remember to pronounce. I asked "What's that" and he said "see the redness around your eyes?" I said "No, that's from me crying because I ITCH so bad! When I cry I get a raccoon mask."
"Oh. Well, then, it's scabies."
And it was.
Took 6 weeks to stop itching after the treatment.
And every doctor and nurse I saw after that made me feel SUPER self conscious every time they saw my skin. "What are these holes in your body?" .... scabies... "Was it treated?"... yes... "Is it active?" no... "Well you should get it checked, it looks like a flesh-eating virus."
It wasn't.
LoL well I went to the doctor when I was prego with a rash on my legs that itched REALLY bad, driving me crazy. The doctor told me I had scabies and gave me a cream (which didnt work bc I didnt have scabies) so a few weeks later I went to another doctor and he said it was just REALLY dry skin and he told me what kind of lotion to get and BAM it was better within days. He also said that the cream the other doctor gave me was not good for pregnant women.0 -
I stepped on a broken bottle once (I had shoes on). I panicked and made my friend pull it out, and then blood started flowing into my shoe, and it was completely soaked. My friend drove me to the hospital on our military base, and I got a civilian triage nurse in the ER to check me in. They wrapped my foot befoe she saw it, so the blood wouldn't get on the floor. When she finally came in the room, she said "Quit crying, it's just a scratch." Turns out, the spike on the broken bottle had completely severed the arch of my foot in half. It had gone in to the bone. I almost punched that nurse in the face on my way out, after getting several stitches of course.0
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My trainer told me that:
1. I should not eat more than 2 fruits per day because they had too much sugar
2. I should never ever eat past 7pm (keep in mind I usually finish training @ the gym at 7:30pm)0 -
my entire childhood my mom would tell my doc every year that she was concerned about the fact that I was always cold and that I couldnt stand anything to touch my neck. EVERY year the doc said 'some kids are like that, dont worry, we will get her thyroid checked if it continues. I was 17 and they were looking for something completely different when they found out my thyroid was very very low, turns out nodules and hashimodos.
At 23 I was in very good health and active. all of the sudden I had no energy to do anything, started sleeping all day, gained a lot of weight all at once and had memory problems and period so bad I would throw up and pass out every month. First doc said women need to learn to deal, periods pain is all in your head and an excuse to eat what you want and be a pain in the *kitten*. was bounced to gastroenterologist, hematologist, oncologist another gynecologist, back to my regular endocrinologist, all found something slightly bad to diagnose me with that didnt explain my symptoms or their sudden onset. After adding Hemachromotosis and B12 malabsorbtion to my list of diagnosis' my endocrinologist finally said that these things happen as you grow older.
BTW my gynecologist suggested I might have endometreosis too, but told me that since I am already on the pill and it helps with my pain a little, I no longer pass out, theres no point in doing the test since there isnt more she can do. and the only way to fix it is to have many children since symptoms go away during pregnancy!0 -
A doctor gave me a serious complex when i was 17, weighed 135lbs at 5"4 and told me I was 15lbs over weight....Uhhh...that's a helathy BMI and back then I was mostly muscle...What the heck?!
I had a Fitness Trainer do that to me when I was 16 and joined a gym. At the time weighed 136 lbs and was 5"5 and he told me that I was over weight and needed to weigh around 110 lbs. I was already pretty thin and muscular, but I totally took his word as 100% accurate and started to think of myself as a 'beached whale'.0 -
Went to an evil gyno once. Upon meeting me, she immediately told me I was fat and needed to lose weight. (Hi nice to meet you too...) she then went over my fasting blood test and told me that my blood sugar was high (89) and so was my bp (95/60) and it was because I am fat and need to lose weight. She was trying to scare me thin. She didn't realize that I had a heart problem,have gone to a cardiologist my entire life, knew my bp was normally low. I then told her that normal blood sugar range is 80-120 and asked how 89 was high. She said, "Oh you know what normal ranges are?" Needless to say, I told her she was a rude quack, refused to pay for the appointment, and never went back.
Oh then called my pcp and told them how awful she was to me and thanked them for the awful referral.0 -
Had an emergency appendectomy in September '09. They made three small holes. Two of them healed very quickly, but the third didn't. Wound up having a temp. of around 102 the week I was supposed to go back to work (had a month off to recover because of the unhealing hole). Had to go back once a week to get looked at...
He had me packing my own wound :noway: Owwwwww I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Also had to go to a wound center, where they poured liquid stuff in it to numb it but didn't give it time to work before digging around in it (I was referred to a wound center a few months ago and nearly cried at the thought of going back to one - flipped out on the doctor about it ). They said they found a stitch and that it should heal up in a couple days. It didn't.
Kept going back to this surgeon. Kept having to miss work. One day the site exploded at work and my pants were all bloody. Talked to my manager and he laughed at me, mainly because it was, y'know, looking like it was just really bad woman problems leaking through my clothes :sad: Only after I broke down crying did he send me home. The next day I went back to the surgeon and he told me I was making it up because it was no longer gushing blood.
Anyway, finally in February, yes, FIVE MONTHS LATER, I called to make an appointment, but specifically told the receptionist that I wanted to see a different surgeon. She was confused, but complied with my request. I was in surgery again within a week, and the site was completely closed up about a week after the surgery. Oh, and I found out that the stuff the previous surgeon had me using to clean my wound isn't supposed to be used for more than two weeks at a time because it will actually keep the site open and burn the skin.
I so nearly sued this surgeon.
Edit: this site has actually opened up again 4 times in the past 6 months, 2 years after the second surgery, and my current doc tells me it's something I "just have to deal with" *sigh*0 -
HAHA"Give me your money and I will tell you things you could Google for free."
The honesty was--at least--refreshing.
oh dear0 -
I have had problems using the restroom in the past and I went to see my doctor about it. The doc told me that I needed to develop a pattern and concentrate. She said something to the effect of, "You need to go on the toilet with no distractions at the same time of the day and think......I need to poo, I need to poo." Yeah, needless to say that has yet to work.0
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My pediatrician told me to cut down on the amount of salad dressing I was using to lose weight. At that point, I didn't even eat salad! And I have NEVER used more than 2T of dressing on anything. Gross.
pretty sure if i did this i'd lose weight! i drown things in salad dressing!0 -
My doc told me to basically eat under 700 cals a day buy consuming a slimfast and 2 leancuisine meals. What an idiot.
And my cardiologist(previous) told me I have a fainting disorder and told me to go home and Google it! Grrrr. I switched doctors after that.0 -
I'm diabetic and I was having a lot of difficulty with high blood sugar. I was running near 400 for an entire day, so I called my diabetes doctor, who advised me to take 15 units of insulin. Each unit should, theoretically, drop my sugar 50 points. When I pointed this out to him, he said "well, then just take 12 units". I never went back to that doctor.0
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A trainer at my gym told me that to slim down 15 lbs that I needed to eat whatever I wanted and not worry about calories or portions but just to make sure I was getting plenty of protein. And then add weight lifting. Um, two months later I had gained eight lbs. yes, weight lifted was good but I was bulking when I really wanted to get smaller.
My *old*physician also told me that to lose 15 lbs I should try the HCG injections and a 500 calorie/day diet. $1,500 later I found another physician.
What's the worst advice you've ever gotten from someone who should clearly know better???
My endocrinologist asked me what my current plan was because she didn't think I was losing weight fast enough. I was doing 8 hours of cardio a week (Zumba and TurboKick) and eating 2000-2200 calories. She said I needed to eat less. I had previously been eating 1800-2000 calories and was having dizzy spells during classes because I wasn't eating enough. She said I should never be eating more than 1500 calories. I said no way.
She looked at me and said "You need to work out less so you can eat less." I stared at her for a good 3 minutes before requesting a referral to a nutritionist.0 -
not so much advise but rather a put down when i joined the gym for my first time. i joined a group called medical weight loss while i went all in and when asked what i wanted out of the gym my reply was loss weight put on muscles and have six pack abs boy i was a joke to the staff need less i lost the weight and put some of it back on darn place0
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Doctors don't like it when you aren't dependent on them... when you get healthy and they can't make money on you.... They generally won't help you to get to that goal... they will sell you lots of pills to band aid you along while they make money off your suffering.... I am a type 1 diabetic and have been for more than 30 years.. I was over 200 pounds and on an insulin pump and taking so many pills I rattled when I walked.. then I lost weight and I won't take their pills and have been off the insulin pump for 5 years.. I gained a few pounds back when my x boyfriend and I broke up.. I got depressed did nothing and ate comfort food.. so now here I am not letting this get out of hand fighting and winning my health day by day pound by pound..0
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I've mostly had trouble with doctors, but never fitness/nutrition stuff. I asked my pediatrician in 6th grade how much people should weigh, and she told me about 100 lbs at 5'0, and for every inch add or subtract 5 pounds. That's stuck with me for a while. It may be true, I have no idea, but it's made it suck for me because 85 pounds on me is nearly impossible to achieve but it's hard for me to mentally get rid of that number.
FYI...
It's called the Hamwi formula and it's 100# for eery 5' and 5# for every inch over PLUS OR MINUS TEN PERCENT.
When you go below 5', you're supposed to subtract 2# per inch.
So if you're 4'9" then your IBW is 94# +/- 10%
I'm a dietitian and do this all day. And hopefully never give bad advice.0 -
I was in the gym running on the indoor track b/c it was raining outside. When I finished running 100 laps (equal to 6.2 miles) one of the trainers asked why I was running so many laps. So, I explained that I was running a 1/2 marathon in the next month and was just trying to get in some mileage. Then, he explains to me that typically African Americans don't run long distances well and I would do better running in a miler or 5K, a shorter faster distance. I didn't really know what to say to this, so I just walked away 0
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The idiot trainer who had me doing ab work after stomach surgery 10 years ago. Thank you for the hernia dip.0
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Glad you're not going back! That's amazing... test for a reaction. Get it. Then ignore it!...
Fast forward to a couple months later when I go back to get my iron infusion. They gave me the test dose of the medicine (which they do every time to make sure you don't have a bad reaction). I had a severe adverse reaction
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So they did the infusion! ...
There's a reason for protocols like that test.
I'm just glad it happened when I did and not when I was in there when I was 9 months pregnant a few months before!0 -
I was in the gym running on the indoor track b/c it was raining outside. When I finished running 100 laps (equal to 6.2 miles) one of the trainers asked why I was running so many laps. So, I explained that I was running a 1/2 marathon in the next month and was just trying to get in some mileage. Then, he explains to me that typically African Americans don't run long distances well and I would do better running in a miler or 5K, a shorter faster distance. I didn't really know what to say to this, so I just walked away
that is so crazy bs that he said to you has he even watch the marthon races on tv it always people male and female from kenya other parts of that country. sorry you had to deal with an dumb *kitten*0 -
I've mostly had trouble with doctors, but never fitness/nutrition stuff. I asked my pediatrician in 6th grade how much people should weigh, and she told me about 100 lbs at 5'0, and for every inch add or subtract 5 pounds. That's stuck with me for a while. It may be true, I have no idea, but it's made it suck for me because 85 pounds on me is nearly impossible to achieve but it's hard for me to mentally get rid of that number.
FYI...
It's called the Hamwi formula and it's 100# for eery 5' and 5# for every inch over PLUS OR MINUS TEN PERCENT.
When you go below 5', you're supposed to subtract 2# per inch.
So if you're 4'9" then your IBW is 94# +/- 10%
I'm a dietitian and do this all day. And hopefully never give bad advice.
Yeah that doesn't sound too unreasonable or unattainable actually. I'm 5'3 and i always hear around 115 is an ideal weight. but I'm going with the +10% since i have a lot of muscle0 -
When I was 17 I went to the doctor because every time I ate I'd have intense pain and nausea. I really wasn't able to eat because of it and had lost around 10 lbs. from 140 to 130. His reply? Eh, its okay that you lost 10 pounds.. you could probably stand to lose 10 more.. You'd be healthier at 120. (I'm 5'6 and I was quite athletic).
I'd be healthier if I could eat! Biggest waste of my time ever!0 -
I went in for a gyno visit and was given the cabbage soup diet to lose weight on.
Follow it faithfully, word for word. Everyone in our office is on it and we are dropping weight like crazy. Then he handed me the diet, photocopied, and a prescription for phen/fen.
I just wanted a papsmear...0 -
I had a Dr. tell me in order to get my cholesterol numbers down I should avoid eating so much red meat and watch my fat intake...ummm i hadn't touched the stuff for 6 months because i had been brainwashed into the "low fat" "diet bars/cereal/frozen meal" lifestyle....
I read and read and read and started eating tons of good fats - including red meat - and my cholesterol numbers went down quite a bit and my good HDL went flying upward....0 -
I am encouraged by your response. Need to just get myself in line with some proper foods and would welcome suggestions from someone who has "been there, done that." 0
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Well it wasn't advice per say but this past Feb I had my yearly gynecological visit. I've been on depo provera (birth control) since feb of 09. I had gained 20 lbs since 2009. Well this doctor was like "i'm really concerned that you gained 20 pounds in 1 year" and I was like no since 2009. If you want to be my dr then ACCURATELY read my medical history....And I had lost 4 lbs in a year (not really trying anything)0
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