February 21, 2010

• I'm sorry there is nothing we can do your fat

  So the other day I went to an orthopedic doctor at the request of my regular doctor because ever since I can remember I have had knee pain. They have tried drugs and physiotherapy and I had an xray done. And since nothing was wrong on the xray I was referred... why I don't know. The ortho poked and prodded same as any doctor who has looked at my knees twisted and pulled. asked me to stand and noticed my toes point inward. wooo I was then told that I had knee pain....wow really I didnt know that. Surgery wouldn't be beneficial.
  Ok so now what I explained that it hurts now in my hips and ankles and basically got told I was fat. "Slightly overweight" Now maybe this wouldn't bother me but I have been at a variety of weights in my lifetime. My first bad bout with this knee pain and the physio therapy because I couldn't walk up stairs was when I was like 15 or 16 and weighed 120 lbs on a 5'6 frame. At that time I also had issues with my back due to crap posture and falling on my tailbone like 6 times in a year.
  Physio was painful and I never felt I reaped any major benfits from it... Yes eventually I could walk up and down stairs more from sheer will and nothing else but I still always had this pain.
  Not for lack of exercise either I lived on a large property and took care of a number of animals ranging from cats and dogs to horses and chickens. I helped my parents side houses and shovel snow for the business. I helped them clean apartments and paint and mow grass. I rode atv's and sleds and horses. Chopped and hauled wood all year round. Swam, biked and skated but apparently thats not enough.
  Walking is not exercise according to this doctor stating it doesnt strengthen the leg muscles? you mean the muscles you just told me can withstand 3 times my body weight on a daily basis? I worked quads and hams in highschool gym classes and was lifting more than most people in my class on leg presses and most everything else but apparently even then at 120lbs I had "the weight to put behind it" It just frustrates me to no end when doctors just pawn you off on yet another doctor an when they see that you might be overweight that is the key to all your problems.
  They dont look at anything else but then people as a whole seem to be more intent on judging people on how they look then on who they are or what they do or have achieved. I'm guilty I have done it... maybe not in such a blatant way as the numerous doctors and teachers I have encountered. And though I may have done it I take the time to try and see an individual for who they are not what they look like.
  So anyway thats my rant I'm fed up with a world that blames everything on weight I'm not saying being overweight is healthy but I am saying that it is not always the cause of every problem. 120lbs 140 lbs 180 lbs 200 lbs I've been at all these and always had the problem. I'm not a huge exerciser I walk alot and I try and go crazy and burn up a major sweat on my ddr pad and sometimes I'll play hacky sack or go shoot hoops or kick a soccer ball around. I can't afford more physio and I can't afford to go to the gym and I don't have the space for exercise equipment but I do what I can.
  Next I gotta call my aunt and see who her doctor is since after years of knee problems apparently he was theone who figured out that it was actually her hip....
  I'm left to my own research now since the Canadian medical profession has failed me yet again!

  • 1:45 am
  • 1 Comment