How to talk to my doctor
Thank you everyone , for your warm welcome. I plan on making a doctors appt.
soon to discuss surgery options. My doctor has been helping me with my panic
attacks that i seem to be having when i do go out in public. I feel alot of it
has to do with the way i feel about myself and the way i look. Iam feeling
stronger and i feel the need to get on with my life, but its my weight that
holds me back. Anyway what i wanted to know is , how do i go about talking to my
doctor about surgery? Iam afaird that she wont agree with me on this. I am also
on medi-cal and want to know if anyone has had surgery where medi-cal pays. I
want to be able to walk into the doctors and know what iam talking about. At age
38 and weighing 335 i cant lose this weight on my own, and excercise is very
hard when you avoid the outside world. I dream of working again, making
friends, having a life. Please any info i would love to hear from you. And let
me tell you how wonderful it feels to belong to this group. thank you
lori
November 25th, 2005 at 5:39 am
Hello Lori ……and welcome to the group!! If your doctor see that you have
a weight problem and your depressed and just not healthy he should recommend
you to a surgeon. My doctor did…..cause you see when your over weight…or
obese like they call us, you go up and down with your emotions and then you
need a pill for that and a pill for that.and really thats not a healthy
life.cause thats what im going through……..my boyfriend of 10 years
suffers just me going through this and well my son thats a diffrent story.
Anyways i can go on……..you see what I mean and if your doctor says
no…..look for another doctor…..right. Let us know here where your from
and we can recommend a surgeon at least. Good luck and rember start taking
care of you. Im from Surrey BC and had a surgeon here in Vancouver who
just resigned after i waited over 2 years and had my surgery booked for last
Dec. So now Im seeing a surgeon in VictoriaBC named Dr. Amson. theres my
little story for you. Write back if you wanna chat more.your new friend
ANGELIKA
November 26th, 2005 at 4:32 am
lori