- went to see the endocrinologist
- he said all my symptoms were caused by being fat
- and that any that couldn’t be explained by being fat were because i was depressed about being fat
- i explained that i wasn’t depressed about being fat, actually eat very healthily and get a lot of exercise
- he said i must be mistaken and eating “hidden calories”
- because i am obviously oblivious about nutrition because i am fat
- he warned me about high blood pressure in fat people
- then took my blood pressure and realised it was fine, if a bit low
- he then warned me it could have been high though
- “aren’t low blood pressure and heart rate symptoms of this disease i have though?”
- “yes. but fatty boom boom”
good god. it was just so ridiculous i wanted to tear my hair out. i also told him i was concerned a benign tumour on my ovary i had removed last year had returned and so he examined my stomach by pressing on the top, nearish the rib cage, then told me i had nothing to worry about.
i might get myself a medical license, it seems like they’ll give them to anyone.
I know how you feel, boo. This is very similar to (though harsher than) my experience last week. There is always a circular argument to be oh-so-joyfully discovered in there.
Oh no!!! I have T1D and ~need~ to see an endo regularly but many of them have started down the path of the OP’s endo and I have left, never to come back. Granted they’ve never come out swinging the way the OP’s specialist did - that’s really awful and I’m sorry that you had to experience that :(
I hope you find a good endo soon. They have to exist, right? They’re not unicorns!