you don't have to get on the scale
I don't know how they would do it for people that can't be weighed either, but I bet they figure something out. I bet that all doctors nationwide don't suddenly begin refusing to treat patients that cannot be weighed. I also bet that, if their scale broke one day, that they would not cancel all appointments. I bet they would figure out how to treat patients without weighing them for the day.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Just to be clear, I am NOT arguing that it SHOULD be this way. I think that patients, especially MO and SMO patients should have the ability to decline the humiliation (because, if you are SMO, it is nothing less than that) of being weighed. I just don't think that now that the government is increasingly sticking its nose where it doesn't belong in healthcare (as if having the insurance companies interfere was not bad enough!), it will be that way. I think the refusing to see patients will be more common than doctors making additional notes about patients self-reporting weight (which could be considered not living up to an appropriate standard of care) or refusing to be weighed.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Anyhoo, part of why I continue to weigh in at my PCP is part of a what if.
When I was doing all my work up stuff pre-op, my PCP used used the weight history from all of our appoints as part of my data package that was prepared for my insurance company. I would have never thought of that, so now I juts keep doing what they want, but check up on facts when needed.
I'm not sure what you mean by "this is kind of why we all had the surgery," Do you mean not getting on the scale led to us needing surgery? Many of us did get on the scale many times before we had surgery. Simply weighing someone does not prevent them from becoming overweight. But maybe I don't understand what you meant.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
Just a hunch.
I sort of agree. I don't do the "turn around" often, but I do it mostlly when I know I haven't been doing right but am trying to do right now. For some people the number can strengthen their resolve. For me, it makes me wanna say screw it and go get a donut. Knowing that about me I don't weigh when I don't think I can handle what the scale says.
But ultimately the scale is simply a confirmation of what I already know in my head.
But I think the poster is saying we had surgery to gain control of our weight and one way of staying on top of that is knowing what you weigh. For folks who go to the doctor more often, I personally would not want to weigh every single time, though. The information means more to us than simply being data and it can be damaging if you aren't in the frame of mind you need to be to put things in perspective.
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Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
