dr called me a fatty !!!!!!

Stephb1986_2

I'd make a complaint to the practise manager and also to the PCT, Someone that is the size of a pencil will never know what it's like to be overweight hopefully one day something will happen to them to make them overweight and then we can call them fatty too see how they like it.

Steph xx

surfsister

mr_rush wrote: »

Surfsister - google is your friend:

http://thyroid.about.com/cs/symptomsproblems/a/carpal.htm

many thanks useful!

Addiscomber

Have any of you read "The Diet Delusion" by Gary Taubes?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diet-Delusion-Gary-Taubes/dp/0091924286

It is not an easy read by any means (about a fifth of it is detailed showing of his sources from medical research), but it shows how little specialist doctors understand about how the body works with regard to nutrition and weight management, let alone the average GP.

May be some of you wouldn't be so free with your comments if you had.

ixwood

Fat is stored energy. If you're storing it, then you are consuming too much energy, or not using enough. That's not delusional. I can't see what the book would contain that's relevant.

ali-t

surfsister wrote: »

Why is carpal tunnel linked to thryoid probs please?

I am only just catching up with this thread but developed carpal tunnel syndrome at the same time as my thyroid packed in. It sorted itself once my medication stabilised but have to say it was as bad as the severe underactive thryroid symptoms.

Sazbo

Addiscomber wrote: »

Have any of you read "The Diet Delusion" by Gary Taubes?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Diet-Delusion-Gary-Taubes/dp/0091924286

It is not an easy read by any means (about a fifth of it is detailed showing of his sources from medical research), but it shows how little specialist doctors understand about how the body works with regard to nutrition and weight management, let alone the average GP.

Funny enough I read it not that long ago. As you say, it's not an easy read, but easily the most illuminating thing I've read in a very long while.

ixwood wrote: »

Fat is stored energy. If you're storing it, then you are consuming too much energy, or not using enough. That's not delusional. I can't see what the book would contain that's relevant.

Taubes goes against much of the prevailing dietary wisdom in his review of health and nutrition-related research stretching back to the 19th century. It's a wide-ranging thesis, but one of his central themes is, contrary to popular opinion, not all calories are equal; that the body doesn't use all sources of energy equally, for example that energy from carbohydrate is burned before energy from fat. Sustained high-levels of blood sugar (from modern dietary habits that include large amounts carbohydrate-dense foods) inhibit the burning of stored fat. This, in his view, could explain why type 2 diabetes and obesity together continue their rapid increase in populations, whilst fat consumption levels have steadily decreased...

That's kind of it in a nutshell and I'm probably not explaining it very well lol - probably best to read Taubes in the original! But I highly recommend it.

Saz

sillyvixen

i have been made to feel like !!!!!! by a dr because of my weight! several year ago i had gallstones and took drs advice and went on a fat free diet (went from a size 20 to 12 in 6 months) by the time i had surgery i was a size 12 and stil had to have an open op - 12 months later i developed an incisional hernia (due to the fact i was allergic to absorbable sutures and i never healed internally - took 3 months externally) - i was reffered back to the hospital and was seen by another dr who refused to list me because of my size (was a size 14) and i had had previous problems with anesetic due to my weight (i had anaphalaxis due to gelifusin - i have an allergy to meat protien - gelifusin and suture material were not good for me and i told the surgeon before) he put me on a 3 month recall.. in 3 months no probs i had not lost weight and there was no problem with listing me!! the only problem previously was there were no funds and they had to keep me of the list for 3 months..... not ammused

Addiscomber

ixwood wrote: »

Fat is stored energy. If you're storing it, then you are consuming too much energy, or not using enough. That's not delusional. I can't see what the book would contain that's relevant.

It must be truly wonderful to be so certain of absolutely everything that you can go around with an entirely closed mind.

Life must be exceedingly dull without new concepts to explore, so I'll just pity you, and wish you luck, because you are probably going to need it.