I started seeing a new doctor about 2 1/2 years ago when I moved, but he has my medical records for the last 12 years or so. I basically only see him 4 times a year to check up on my health and renew my prescriptions. Well in the last 3 months I have gained 28lbs, and it isn't sitting well on me. By a strange coincidence I haven't had a cigarette in about 3 months. So not really much of a mystery, if every time you want a smoke you put something else in your mouth (minds out of gutters in 3.2.1) you are likely to gain some weight.
It was all he was focused on. Now he wants to change my medications. NO!!! NO! NO! NO! It has been working well for all this time, I really don't want a change now, I know the kind of hell that not being medicated/improperly medicated can do to me. Leave something that is working alone! But because my medical records show that before I was medicated I was about 60lbs underweight, and the last time I was off them I was about 40lbs overweight when I went back on he thinks it's the medication to blame. It took all my verbal skills to convince him to renew the same doses for another 3 months and to give me a chance to lose the weight.
It didn't seem to register with him that before I was properly medicated I had been homeless and without money for about 14 months, and wasn't able to eat well, or at all, and it's not a real mystery why I was so underweight. It doesn't seem to sink in that the last time I wasn't on medication was for my pregnancy, and when I went back on them, a couple weeks after giving birth, I had been sitting on my ass, depressed, not exercising and being pregnant for 9 months, so it's not a huge surprise that my weight was up when I started taking them again.
No, to him weight issues = improperly medicated. So I have three months to lose the weight or he's going to start screwing with my meds. He warned me, over and over and over, about the health dangers of obesity, the difficulties of losing weight at my age, and how it's the WORST THING EVER!!! (NB-I'm probably about 35lbs over my ideal weight) He told me to lose the weight WHATEVER IT TAKES! Quitting smoking is not a good excuse. He hasn't had a cigarette in 50 years and you don't see him going on about it. (He looks about 50 years old). So I'm feeling like if I don't start smoking again immediately I have no chance to lose that much weight in three months. If I don't lose at least 30lbs in three months my life is going to go to hell, and quick.
Ever feel like a doctor is not making sense?
It was all he was focused on. Now he wants to change my medications. NO!!! NO! NO! NO! It has been working well for all this time, I really don't want a change now, I know the kind of hell that not being medicated/improperly medicated can do to me. Leave something that is working alone! But because my medical records show that before I was medicated I was about 60lbs underweight, and the last time I was off them I was about 40lbs overweight when I went back on he thinks it's the medication to blame. It took all my verbal skills to convince him to renew the same doses for another 3 months and to give me a chance to lose the weight.
It didn't seem to register with him that before I was properly medicated I had been homeless and without money for about 14 months, and wasn't able to eat well, or at all, and it's not a real mystery why I was so underweight. It doesn't seem to sink in that the last time I wasn't on medication was for my pregnancy, and when I went back on them, a couple weeks after giving birth, I had been sitting on my ass, depressed, not exercising and being pregnant for 9 months, so it's not a huge surprise that my weight was up when I started taking them again.
No, to him weight issues = improperly medicated. So I have three months to lose the weight or he's going to start screwing with my meds. He warned me, over and over and over, about the health dangers of obesity, the difficulties of losing weight at my age, and how it's the WORST THING EVER!!! (NB-I'm probably about 35lbs over my ideal weight) He told me to lose the weight WHATEVER IT TAKES! Quitting smoking is not a good excuse. He hasn't had a cigarette in 50 years and you don't see him going on about it. (He looks about 50 years old). So I'm feeling like if I don't start smoking again immediately I have no chance to lose that much weight in three months. If I don't lose at least 30lbs in three months my life is going to go to hell, and quick.
Ever feel like a doctor is not making sense?
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