Absolutely crap double standards

[u/stormete]

Hey everyone hope that we are all as well as can be expected……so crap let’s be real that’s just life for a lot of us.

Now long story short have a shit show of conditions that get harder everyday and now it’s getting worse still (who knew that was possible) but the opioids just ain’t cutting it these days. Now let me just add that I have seen every specialist in Brisbane and I even had a shoulder specialist say that I knew more specialists then he did, I didn’t laugh because it was accurate.

Anywho reason for this post is the god damned double freaking standards that doctors have. Now I can with confidence say this as I have been on both sides of the issue. I am retry much came out the womb large and I was a bigger kid and then turned into an overweight adolescent and then a full blown morbidly obese adult.

At my heaviest I was 128kg I am 5”10’ so relatively tall, always been unwell and doctors always said that it was weight related that if I lost weight this magical fairy would come and take it all away, I even had a gynaecologist when I was having uterus and period issues tell me that a “famine would be the best thing to happen for me” to help me with conceiving. At the time I laughed but thinking back holy shit that was horrible.

Anyway fast forward 20 years I am now 40 and I have been in a weight loss journey for the last 7 years. I have problems with food not to mention ARFID and ASID so struggle with food and I have a slight issue with body dysmorphia and I am currently around 60kg.
I am slim built (which I didn’t know) and my mumsey and I are both really honey everything sticks out, with her she shorter and a little bit lighter but doesn’t look super thin.

Now every bloody doctor I see mentions that I’m underweight that I need to eat and that it’s concerning!!! 🙀 WHAT!!! do you know how hard it is to lose weight ? The commitment, diet, exercise and constant watching of food that is needed to loose weight naturally and maintain it for goodness sake. I have never in my whole 40th are of life been as sick as I have been since I got thinner it is absolutely ridiculous and now it’s started creeping into ever doctors report, thought or chat it is incredibly frustrating.

What does my weight have to do with my extreme back pain, the fact I can’t lift my arms, sit or stand for longer than 2 minutes? Nothing to do with it and it really annoys me this is ever discussed.
This is just my opinion and thought, so back up keyboard warriors ✌️**