A question for people who consider he selves to be very overweight.

[LemonJ]

When you visit the GP about something, does the GP mention your weight? Do they weigh ou? Also, do they do his each time you visit?

Themselves not he selves

I would consider myself very overweight and the only time it has come up at the gps is when I they check my weight for my contraceptive. They haven't mentioned it at other appointments unless I have roasted it and asked for support.

Sorry ignore all the typos!

Mine does weigh me at my annual checkup. I know I need to lose a lot of weight and so does she. She is always very nice. Unfortunately there is no miracle, it is up to me to eat less calories. She knows I exercise.

Yes. And in my experience they tend to dismiss pretty much everything as weight related - it's almost like it makes them blind to any other possibility

GP - Do you smoke?
Me - No.
GP - Do you drink?
Me - some wine at the weekend yes.
GP - Yes, it's because you are overweight.

Every. Single.Time.

Here's two great articles about obesity and doctor's.

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-to-do-about-fat-shaming-doctors_us_5ba9604ee4b0181540dfd54d

highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/

The 2nd one is long, but very eye-opening.

I signed up with a new GP last year because I'd moved house and had a chest infection. While there, she looked me up and down and wrote in my notes that my BMI was very high. She made me wear a blood pressure monitor for 24 hours and did blood tests...all I was there for was a chest infection.
I'm so glad she did! Turns out my bp had been high and I didn't realise. She put me on tablets to bring it down and I've been to see a cardiologist. Everything is fine, but wouldn't have been for much longer. My weight was going to kill me. I've been losing steadily for the past few months - nothing drastic, just slow and steady, so hopefully that'll work long term.

Yep. Many times. About being sterilised, about a prolapse repair, about pretty much anything.

Yes my weight gets mentioned at every appointment. I don't go any more unless I really have to.

I am always at least a stone heavier in winter than in summer, and every time I got contraceptives I was weighed and (teeth sucked in) oh dear you've put on/taken off 1-2 stone.
I always point out that it's pretty much the same as the measurement a year ago...

Drives me potty this. Every time. I went with a crushed foot where a 600kg horse had stood on it...diagnosis was it was painful because I'm overweight. The gp had simply decided that was that and not listened. Nothing to do with the horse.

Totally relate to that feejee it gets blamed for everything. Ear infection? Lose weight. Tonsillitis? Lose weight. PND? You'll feel better if you lose some weight.

All the GPs at my surgery (I think there are 5) weigh me no matter what I go in for but I'm not overweight. It seems to be something they have to do for statistics government targets/payments

Just ignore it.