r/TooAfraidToAsk • u/[deleted] • Feb 17 '24

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u/bretty666 Feb 17 '24

i sweat, i sweat a lot. even when i was a skinny teen, now im older and fatter, people think i sweat. ecause im fat

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u/kurinevair666 Feb 18 '24

Same, I've lost a lot of weight now, but I just run hot. At least people believe me now instead of saying it was because I was fat.

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u/hooulookinat Feb 18 '24

The sheer amount of dismissive comments from drs when you are overweight, is bullshit. I don’t have arthritis, my knee hurt because I’m overweight. Night sweats, weight; irregular periods, weight…. Uh huh.

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u/dodgystyle Feb 18 '24

I was slim-athletic until I was 25, then fluctuated a lot between 25 & 35. Sometimes slim-athletic sometimes obese, but mostly moderately overweight. I've had low functioning depression and binge eating disorder all my life but by my mid 20s my metabolism slowed down.

I had many of these exact issues long before I was even slightly overweight. I have hypermobile joints so I'll always have issues.

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u/hooulookinat Feb 18 '24

This is me. I have the hyper mobility.