Re: Sick to death of comments like....

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>If you could lose a few pounds it would get rid of

>all you ailments

>Is anyone else SICK to death of Doctors using the

" overweight " excuse.

I don't hear the overweight excuse. I am 5'10 " and

150. Lucky me, huh? I hear it is all because of my

diabetes (type I)or because I <gasp> smoke cigarettes.

To listen to the doctors, EVERYTHING is because of

Diabetes/smoking. Wonder how long it will take these

physicians to come up with a new dx: " Lousy imune

system syndrome " For me, it has caused (so far)

Diabetes, P, PA, Hashimotos thyroditis...

Seems like some doctors focus on the obvious. Instead

of lecturing us about overweight/smoking, they should

be HELPING us remove those agravating factors...

(Water walking? Hypnosis? Support groups???)

Sigh

CMPete

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In a message dated 10/16/2006 10:18:06 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,

cmquilts@... writes:

new dx: " Lousy immune

system syndrome " For me, it has caused (so far)

Diabetes, P, PA, Hashimotos thyroditis..Dia

CM,

I'm in the same slowly sinking boat. I finally got my siblings to realize

that I got all the bad genes from mom and dad. They each got one... and then

I have to listen to them complain how it's getting harder to do what they've

always done. AND THEY'RE ALL YEARS OLDER THAN ME. I'm still working they

don't remember when they retired let alone actually put in a full days worth of

work. lol

To your list I can add hypertension, high cholesterol, high triglycerides,

and as I'm learning a whole bunch of food intolerances and allergies.

As my doc says periodically, you don't have a BAD immune system, " I don't

think you even HAVE an immune system. " .

Oh well, at least I'm still living and breathing to talk about it --

provided I use my inhaler.

Sandy swOhio