re: Question for very large people

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Doctors are people too and can get desensitized to what they see on a daily basis. At my heaviest I was going on 250 at 5'7". My BP was 135/95 and the nurse made no note of it. The only reason I knew about it was because I looked at the monitor. When I mentioned it to the doctor, my doctor said "That's not insanely high".

It's literally hypertension and the doctor was so used to seeing blood pressure in that range that I'm guessing her frame of reference shifted. Perhaps she looked at all my other factors, and noted that for my BMI it wasn't insanely high BP and I seemed fine otherwise so she didn't think anything of it. But it's objectively high blood pressure. And, objectively, I was extremely obese. And my doctor didn't seem to make a big deal of it.

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I was 260 (at 5' 8") at my heaviest so probably close to you proportionately. I went in for a routine surgery, fell in a coma, almost died, had to relearn to walk again, etc. Not once before my surgery did my doctor mention how big of a risk factor obesity is in causing complications. You can argue that it's intuitive and I'd agree but I had no idea the scale of how big a factor it is. To the contrary, he told me I was healthy as a horse and as ready as I'd ever be for surgery.

I think Dr's are becoming as desensitized to obesity as everyone else seems to be. It's what they see day after day. And if they started started discouraging overweight people from having surgery that they can put off, until after they lose the weight, the industry would probably collapse.

That was 4 years ago. 162 now, moving to 155 goal and then I'm going to try this shite again. In the end, it was a good thing. It finally forced me to pull a foot out of the grave and do something about it.