When I was in my mid 20s, I started gaining weight. A LOT of weight. So my doctor put me on a diet. I followed it religiously (weighing my food out to the gram). It was 1,200 calories a day, I was always hungry, never had any energy, and was still gaining weight. Two months later, I go back to my doctor, who starts by noting that I’m still gaining weight (30 pounds in 2 months) and then asks why I’m not following the diet he gave me. I told him I was, then I made the mistake of mentioning how hard it was. He looked me straight in the eye and told me “if you were actually following the diet I gave you, you’d have lost 30 pounds, not gained 30 pounds.” I left that doctor’s appointment in tears and left feeling like a horrible human being. I stopped seeing that doctor a few months later for completely unrelated reasons.
Oddly enough, it only took my new doctor a few weeks to diagnose me with a small tumor on my pituitary gland. Tumor removed, I was able to go back up to eating 2,000 calories a day like a normal person and almost all the excess weight went away within a few months. I don’t think the tumor would have k**led me if left untreated but it’s appalling to me that a medical doctor would rather think a patient was willfully lying to them than look at why that patient’s body wasn’t behaving as expected of a healthy individual.
Oddly enough, it only took my new doctor a few weeks to diagnose me with a small tumor on my pituitary gland. Tumor removed, I was able to go back up to eating 2,000 calories a day like a normal person and almost all the excess weight went away within a few months. I don’t think the tumor would have k**led me if left untreated but it’s appalling to me that a medical doctor would rather think a patient was willfully lying to them than look at why that patient’s body wasn’t behaving as expected of a healthy individual.