#weight cw
“You should get out more, move around.”
“Exercise will help you feel better!”
“You’ll feel better if you lose a little weight”
I can’t sustain increased activity for more than 3 days without crashing for a week! What’s not clicking?
We’re so misunderstood.
We’d *love* for it to be this easy.
If one more doctor ever says “maybe you’re just unfit” to me, I’m going to go full Joker
That was the BS last time I spoke to a doctor, and they were having a go about my weight, and I was like, look, food is complicated, and my joint pain got a lot worse last year, and it’s really hard for me to exercise
And you know, I got the usual “well, it sounds to me like you’re just unfit”
So, like, I did push myself to try to do more exercise because I wanted to go to a LARP event and I knew that that would be a pretty huge shock to my system if I didn’t, so I tried to pick yoga back up, and my joints literally could not hold my body up
But I was like, well, maybe last time I did yoga, I had been doing more exercise, and I was lighter, so maybe that’s a factor…
Then I try glucosamine tablets, the swelling in my joints goes down, and guess who can do the exact same yoga routine again and does it just fine, despite months of no exercise???
It’s never that I’m unfit, I know what being unfit feels like, and, like, shockingly, I’m not a tiny baby who can’t cope with a normal amount of being winded/muscle aches
If I’m saying to a medical professional “this hurts too much to do”, it’s not because I’m winging, it’s because my joints are visibly twice the size they should be and cannot take that much weight or bend like that any more!
If I want to whine, I’ll whine to my friends. Or my mom. Or strangers on the internet.
I’m not going to make a doctor’s appointment in order to whine to a medical professional. Who has the goddamn time or money for that
See, I love that I don’t have to pay for doctors appointments, it’s great
But sometimes it means my doctors chasing me down when I don’t even want to be talking to them
I have to have a yearly check-up for one of my pills, but with COVID, I’ve been doing it online, because I have a blood pressure monitor at home. I send in my blood pressure, weight, etc and then they go “yeah, your blood pressure is normal, here are the pills”
Last time I did this, my doctor fucking booked me an appointment to talk about my weight - a thing that I did not want to talk about and that my check up was not about - and then when I rang back to be like “I’m not coming to this appointment, we’re still in the middle of a pandemic and it’s unnecessary”, my doctor refused to let it go without referring me to a weight loss service, and that’s when I was like “I have autism, ADHD and chronic pain, the latter of which is why I have gained weight over the past six months, a normal weight loss service isn’t going to help, they literally told me so themselves the last time you got on this”
And that’s when the unfit comment came out
Anyway, I’m being hounded because GP surgeries get paid for referring you to services like that, so… Yeah, different system but money still fucks it up
If one more doctor ever says “maybe you’re just unfit” to me, I’m going to go full Joker
That was the BS last time I spoke to a doctor, and they were having a go about my weight, and I was like, look, food is complicated, and my joint pain got a lot worse last year, and it’s really hard for me to exercise
And you know, I got the usual “well, it sounds to me like you’re just unfit”
So, like, I did push myself to try to do more exercise because I wanted to go to a LARP event and I knew that that would be a pretty huge shock to my system if I didn’t, so I tried to pick yoga back up, and my joints literally could not hold my body up
But I was like, well, maybe last time I did yoga, I had been doing more exercise, and I was lighter, so maybe that’s a factor…
Then I try glucosamine tablets, the swelling in my joints goes down, and guess who can do the exact same yoga routine again and does it just fine, despite months of no exercise???
It’s never that I’m unfit, I know what being unfit feels like, and, like, shockingly, I’m not a tiny baby who can’t cope with a normal amount of being winded/muscle aches
If I’m saying to a medical professional “this hurts too much to do”, it’s not because I’m winging, it’s because my joints are visibly twice the size they should be and cannot take that much weight or bend like that any more!
