#'cause pediatric endocrinologists are The Fucking Worst

[chrismerle]

Things I still do not understand, after like 28 years: why does a blood sugar that has been high for a while take considerably more insulin to go down than a blood sugar that has been the same amount of high for much less time?

[jimjams-fiddles]

I had sleeping issues for years im talking 6-7 yrs old, and at first it was just thought that my sleep schedule was wack cause I never had real discipline with my sleep schedule, but later on 9-12 yrs old one doctor actually said it’s because of all the midnight snacking, something I didn’t actually do often cause most of the food in the house needed to be prepped, and I did have smth it was like a gogurt or whatever, literal snacks, but since I was fat they didn’t believe me, or my mother when they asked what my diet was like (2-3 meals a day [if I woke up early enough] 1-2 snacks thrown in)

As I got older it went from not sleeping enough, to sleeping way too much and they STILL found a way to blame this on my weight. their logic? You’re fat> you fatigue quickly> you sleep more.

At like 13 I went to a pediatric endo and his main concerns were my weight and high testosterone. He gave me metphormin (one of the most common drugs used for treatment of diabetes and pre-diabetes, also has a small sideline as weight loss aid) and heavily implied to me that it was for the testosterone which would than help with the weight, my mother knew what it was actually for and was unfortunately under the impression I did too. I had to stop taking it after a few months because it always WITH👏OUT👏FUCKING👏FAIL gave me the worst runs I’ve ever had in my life. I shit (haha) you not a teacher forced me to hold til the end of class (I did, somehow) but if that class wasn’t right next to a bathroom I wouldve crapped myself. I told him this and he didn’t take my concerns seriously, he said that’s normal and it should even out eventually?? Eventually being when sir??? Would it be before or after I can get my license???or before or after I give up and start wearing diapers again??? I stopped taking it and refused to see him, unfortunately he was the only pediatric endocrinologist in the tri-county area, so I stopped seeing an endo all together

Finally at 17 I went to a psyc and gyno ([for other reasons but she found this too] with a specialty in hormones, cause it is technically a fertility clinic) psyc diagnoses me with Persistent Depressive Disorder & the gyno looked at 1 blood test and immediately put me on synthroid, Hypothyroidism!! Runs in the family? Wanna know the most common symptom?? HUH DO YAH??? FATIGUE!!! If that first endo looked at my thyroid instead of my weight I would’ve know that AGES ago! But no because I was a fat girl with a family history of diabetes the issue HAD to be my weight and nothing else

I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.

[gunnerina]

So i had been going to the same pediatric endocrinologist for almost 10 years and she was amazing. She had to stop seeing me since I’m 22 now so we decided to find a new doctor closer to home.

This doctor only just finished her residency but I told my mom to giver her a shot because how is a doctor supposed to gain experience without patients. My mom was like no she’s going to suck, but I convinced her anyway.

Anyway, I got to my endo about every three months. And 9 months ago I got diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroditis, meaning my body is attacking my thyroid gland causing my thyroid gland not to create enough thyroid hormone. Months before I got diagnosed I was seeing a ton of symptoms the worst being my feeling absolutely tired all the time. I’m usually quite an energetic, ready to go, type of person.

Once I was diagnosed and given the proper treatment, I felt great! My energy levels were back up to where they usually were, and all of my other symtoms disappeared. But the past two months, I was feeling the same type of tired again and seeing a few of the same symptoms I saw earlier in the year.

Well I had an appointment with this new endocrinologist last week and she went on a long ass lecture explaining weight and diabetes to me (for the second time may I add, like honey I did not go 10 years with this disease by being stupid). Anyway in all of that I forgot to mention that I was feeling so tired.

Thankfully my mom mentioned it in her appointment which was right after mine. She tells the doctor: oh yeah Navila has been feeling really tired lately. And the doctor replies: yes it has to do with her weight. That’s what the bitch that knows I have newly been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thinks the cause of my lathargy is: my fucking weight which has been consistent for the past 8 years (which she also went into some bullshit about how Hashimoto’s doesn’t cause weight gain but the 8 pounds since my diagnosis will disagree).

Anyway fastforward to today when I get back my lab results and I’m told my thyroid levels are low and I need to double my medication. So basically this bullshit doctor, without looking at my labs, is blaming everything on my weight. This just proves to me yet again that doctors don’t know shit.

Who wants to hear a story about how I realized my new endocrinologist isn’t a fatphobic fuckhead?