@_ agreed

Thank you *so much* for making this video. I relate to such a tragic degree. While my primary issue by far is not being overweight, if anything I'm (BMI-wise at least) leaning more to the side of underweight.. I usually fluxuate between being normal weight range to underweight, again BMI-wise..). My primary and most obivious issue is mainly being a drug addict/heroin/opiod and benzodiazepine addict, and secondarily yet still as well primarily mentally ill, as in struggling with severe PTSD, anxiety, depression as well as perhaps bipolar disorder or something similar.. I was in the process of working with a psychiatrist to diagnose - not just for the sake of having the diagnosis, but so that I could get treatment. Same goes for severe undiagnosed sleep issues. Anyway.. (nearly, as in 9/10 times of) anytime I go to ANY doctor, they always attribute any and every problem on either my addiction or my mental health struggles, smfh. I struggle with a whole heck of a lot of chronic pain, something I've dealt with since BEFORE I even became addicted to opiods, heroin for the most part.. so one can only imagine the sheer anger and frustration I feel whenever my other, more *legitimate* physical issues just gets written off. It's alwsys immidiatly assumed I just want more drugs.. NO. I want to beat my addiction, but that becomes IMPOSSIBLE if the root issues won't be addressed. Same goes for my sleep issues and mental health issues. I KNOW there is something physically wrong with my body, but NOBODY even bothers giving me a referral elsewhere, whether it's physiotherapy or something like that or a pain specialist. Same goes for my sleep issues.. I always hammer home the point that I'm not seeking more drugs, but rather that I'm desperatly seeking long term TREATMENT so that I could eventually actually either wean off the few medications I get, or get completely off them.. not being forced to take all kinds of medications, supplemented with illegal drugs to self medicate, because the far too mild medications I barely even get prescribed barely give me any relief, and they most certainly only work as a bandaid on a gushing wound. I'd LOVE to be able to not have to spend so much money on both legal and illegal drugs in order to just barely function, but seemingly my doctor would rather have me continue self medicate in order to simply treat the synptoms, rather than treat the root of the actual problem. I've had to deal with this for countless years now, and my body is deteriorating. Since all I can do is treat the symptoms, the root issues, whatever they actually are, simply get worse - forcing me to take even more illegal medications including fricking heroin, while being forced to increase the amount and strength of the medications/drugs, since the root issues are not at all treated. It just makes me so mad. The medical community gives me NO CHOICE but to stay addicted, because they refuse to even to a standard, routine checkup. They never take any of my serious issued seriously. I've been to rehab multiple times, so I've been sober for some months to about a little over an actual full year, and guess what.. I've never felt more sluggishly unhealthy and more in pain than those times. I've been told several times that "if only you sobered up, you'd feel so much better even in just weeks to some short months. That was complete BS. Any time I tried rehabilitation, both my physical and mental health deteriorated. They had to put me BACK ON DRUGS *IN REHAB* as all my issues only got 100x worse.. I became practically completely insomnic, developed signs of shizophrenia and dissosiation, I could barely even walk due to all the physical pain - rehab only made me worse. Yet, they refused to acknowledge that I have severe and highly legitimate underlying issues. The amount of stigma people like me, with either drug addictions and/or mental health issues *(especially both)* face from not just the general population, but the medical field -- even so called addiction "soecialists" and mental health "specialists" is disgustingly staggering, and should never be tolerated. It's truly shameful. It's awfully sad that the people who are supposed to have enough understanding, knowledge and empathy, as well as supposed professionalism can often times be the ones who treat you worst out of everyone. It's pathetic, negliegent and tragic. Purely disgusting. No wonder the OD-statistic is so incredibly high.

@@idalarsen2540 I feel the same about some of the issues which you discussed. I was sexually abused by my father. I have extreme PTSD and completely blocked it out for about 25 years. But now that I remember, I have trouble sleeping. I have night terrors. I've been lucky in some respect because I have some medicine that helps with the night terrors (Prazosin a blood pressure medicine). I have a lot of medical issues regarding my PTSD. I have TMJ from cleching my jaw and have digestive issues as well. I have difficulty relaxing which causes muscle problems. I need help trying to process what happened to me. Because of my PTSD, I have coping issues regarding food. I'm morbidly obese. Until I find a provider willing to help me process and move past the abuse, I can't start to truly heal mentally or physically. I take a lot of medicine for my medical issues but I want to take less. I have bi-polar depression and anxiety as well. I'm on 6 medicines for mental health. I feel like if I could find a good provider, I'd be able to take a lot less medicine.

tbf its kinda hard not to notice obesity but yeah the doctors shouldve known better

Exactly! And people still somehow managed to write him off as fat-phobic, plain ridiculous! If anything he's as objective and informative about the possible consequences of obesity as it gets!

He's like Dr House but without the substance and verbal abuse.

No, he's also DHAR MANN

Yea I was about to comment something like this

Right!!

Having the skills and finding the time to do both of these makes it all the more incredible. Mad props.

Vets are the best dr I met in my life. I wish I was a dog , my dog was treated 100 times better than I was in my dr office . Sometimes I was jealous on my dog😂

Honestly I'm glad you don't because some vets do! I was astonished when I first heard about it from my vet tech friends, I was like, how do you hate fat people so much that you even hate fat animals... bruh...

​@@Surteronartoim pretty sure they meant ROMANTIC partner lol

​@@Surteronartoyou sound like a weirdo.

I was a lab tech for several years that’s what I thought too.😂

Yup. Same. I even had a pelvic ultrasound that found the follicles on both ovaries and the VA is still refusing to diagnose me with PCOS because they're like it's your weight. It's so frustrating.

i was 330 lbs, lost weight NOT taking doctors advice, they didnt even push me towards weightloss, made me hate them, the attitude of some doctors, are absolutely disgusting, if it wasnt for doctors like dr mike, i would never go, idc even if i had terminal cancer

Ive come back to update that i had my surgery back in October, and Ive not only been losing weight (40 pounds so far), but my menstrual cycle is also much more manageable. Advocate for yourselves folks! I hope you all find doctors who will listen, and give you what you need. ❤️

@@willowwish648 happy for u!, that’s awesome!! 👏, one piece of advice if u ever feel like giving up on weightloss, just remember the faster u bounce back to it. The better. I’ve personally have had many set backs and pauses, maybe it’s just me idk. I hope u don’t find as much difficulty as me

u lucky this aint insta

I can't love this comment enough!

most do, but you also have peoples personal biases and a lot of arrogant people in the field. But most doctors do have this mindset

Osteopathic medicine ❤️

This- I went years being undiagnosed because of my weight- if all doctors or more doctors would be like this people w (chronic) illnesses would have such a better life

@@Unknown-kn4vx here is the hidden secret, there is no real difference between Osteopathic and Allopathic these days. Shhhhh, those differences are from 40+ years ago. The only difference is if is says DO or MD at the end of your name and the accreditation agency for your medical school. DO's take the medical boards with the MDs

I also agree but isn't that a part of his job?

@@mathishontsch3298 You'd be surprised. About a year ago, when Trump announced he had COVID, plenty of doctors came out hoping he died from the virus. Regardless of your political beliefs, that's betraying every oath a doctor takes.

He’s… a doctor

Thats he job...

@@leakypeach6250 j suppose youre right, all doctors are supposed to be commited to their patients' best interests at all times no matter what

Yesss! It’s not the numbers but the motion and the vigor

Lose weight. You can have muscle but still be fat.

I am so glad i had great doctors who actually were upset i was only 170lb. Because of my structure and genetics they wanted me to be heavier but with muscle mass. I worked very hard and got to 198lbs and my doctors are very happy and i feel really good.

Hahaha your clearly awesome! Keep on rocking sis 🥰

You can be muscle bound hulk at 250lbs have Zero bodyfat and still be overweight. Muscle or Fat both in Excess are not healthy. You never see a 110 year old body builder or even any sort of athlete really.

Sorry for your loss. That sounds awful.

99% of doctors don’t think like this, or are too scared/embarassed to ask the right questions. Or sometimes the patients are too scared/embarassed. Its up to the doctor to make them feel comfortable and open up. Too many doctors are too rushed to take the time for this though, usually getting in and out in like 10-15 min. Western medicine is a joke

Detectives? The first doctor almost killed him...

@@seasong7655 do they truly qualify as a doctor though..

@@33awesomeman33 I don’t think that is the doctor’s fault necessarily. The business/admin people are the ones who decide how many patients doctors have to see and in what amount of time

Yes... true.. but also the patient had to advocate for himself because the doctors weren't helping. 4:00 imagine how many different people he had to see, over how much time, spending who knows how much money, to eventually arrive at an answer. Not everyone is that lucky.

I'm glad they caught it finally!

Along with weight, anxiety seems to be a kind of lazy explanation doctors use when they can't be bothered to find the real issue.

That’s wild. I had the same symptoms and they sent me to a cardiologist immediately. I was Cleared after ecg, echo, stress test, and Halter monitor. It ended up being anxiety disorder.

@@Pfannenstiel1987 How couldn't you tell, yourself, that it was anxiety?

May I ask what she was diagnosed with? Because I’m dealing with that and being told it’s just my anxiety.

bartonella is the biggest emerging infection that is going undiagnosed causing symptoms like MS, Fibro, RA, any idiopathic rheumatologic disease, many mental disorders etc, please educate yourself on it future doctor.

That’s terrible! God bless you and your family especially your Mom!

I am so sorry that happened to your family. I hope she well now and recovered.

your mother should have sued the doctors (i think that how it works 🤔)

I honestly hope she either sued or complained about her initial doctor because that was laziness and negligence on his side that would have cost her her LIFE 😱

Even if she knew they were wrong she would still have believed her doctors, if her brain thought it was ok then it would a much easier time suppressing the pain.

Fat shaming made my sister stop eating because she wanted to be like all those other girls, I agree with this lots. She was in the hospital for a month due to refusal to eat. I mean it was not because of doctors but people in this world can be pretty horrible.

@@NixTheChad People also need to learn that one of the easiest ways to lose weight is just by eating healthier food. People think "oh just workout a bunch", or "oh just stop eating for a while", when the majority of weight loss simply comes from eating better. The idea of people starving themselves to lose weight really needs to disappear. If people had just been kind and understanding and actually understand how weight loss works that wouldn't have happened. I feel like it wouldn't be considered fat shaming if somebody took the time to explain calorie deficits and things of that nature.

It's most ironic when fat-shaming comes from members of the medical community that are not fit themselves. The amount of overweight, chain-smoking doctors and nurses that exist is utterly amazing. They seem like hypocrites.

Yes, all doctors should be required to do an intense course on: "You Are Not God - Treat Your Patients With Utmost Respect."

@@gagetaylor192 yeah true

You sound very smart and your attitude is awesome my friend! Don’t become jaded and follow your passions! Good luck to you.

That's awesome! I hope Dr. Mike sees your comment. It would be great for him to see that his videos are clear enough that someone so young can understand them as well as adults. And it's great that you're watching videos like this. Your desire to learn will serve you well in life.

Unrelated, but 392 likes and 2 replies.

It's an unfortunate truth when it comes to people who are overweight receiving medical care. I'm so glad to know Dr Mike is able to be professional and actually care for people beyond this!

@@blazingapparition2687 So true! I have a form of orthostatic intolerance (POTS), and ADHD, and somehow both of those were blamed on me being underweight, and a student dealing with lots of coursework. Yeah, stress makes those worse, but I'm now at a healthy weight, and still struggling with the same stuff. Thankfully ADHD meds help me feel less dizzy as well, but I've been having a rash as a side effect when I changed doses, so I'll be bringing that up for sure.

Yea would be cool

Shut up

@@dee8518 how about no

@@I_will_defeat_everyone wat

That’d be pretty awesome!

This is happening to my boyfriend’s sister. She is extremely overweight but has PCOS, so losing weight for her seems like it feels impossible.

PCOS is genetic in my family, started manifesting after i turned 16 and yet people still think its because im overweight

@@user-pi3hd2bt3f same for me 2 of my aunts were diagnosed in the 70s. I was diagnosed at 15.

I…. I totally feel that. I’ve never had normal periods. Not once since puberty. I’m pretty sure I’ve always had PCOS, basically since my first cycle. No, I definitely wasn’t fat then. I was a perfectly normal weight for my height, even a bit on the thin side. I started gaining weight in my later teen years, right after I also started growing facial hair. Maybe the PCOS really did come first for me?

@@marthahawkinson-michau9611 I wouldn’t be surprised if PCOS came first for you. But I am not a doctor of course.

Yeah, the patient is an expert on living in their own body, while the doctor is an expert in medicine. The patient might misattribute what their issue is, but that doesn't mean it isn't a symptom. It just isn't necessarily a symptom of what the patient thought.

Why “BUT wonderful”? Why does her lower socioeconomic status make her wonderful nature surprising?

@@nathanleblancq4217 Yeah I would have expected the opposite, the higher up you go the less likely you are to be a nice person.

Thank you so much for sharing this. People are shamed into silence for symptoms everyday. We struggled to get me a diagnosis for years, and by the time we found a doc that fought with us, my functional lung volume is below 47% due to autoimmune diseases. Thank you for educating people.

@@Ishlacorrin that's your priviledge talking dear. Poor people aren't just surviving. You are pre-judging emotions due to money. But multi-rich people are tearing this world down. That's not nice.

A lot of doctors don't know about the side effects of the drugs they prescribe. Shameful.

Someone who has fibromyalgia and an undetermined inflammation in my blood, I feel you. “you need to exercise and eat healthy” I told the doctor I felt like taking my own life with all the pain and fatigue. She ignored me, refused to do blood work and sent me off. The thing is I was healthy, and working out everyday prior to the onslaught of symptoms taking over my life. It took 8 years for someone to finally listen to me.

Hey, am I allowed to ask you something? If I can't, don't respond so I know. Do you think your weight is a problem or you need to weigh less?

@@starfilledsky2810. it is something I’m currently working on. Please don’t try to sell me anything.

@@alliyahanderson3243 I'm 13, I legally can't sell anything- I just wanted to ask a question that I hope wasn't too invasive..

@@starfilledsky2810. a lot of people phrase judgement the way you asked your question because then they’ll follow up with some lovely fatphobic phrases or they’ll try to tell me to follow whichever diet they’re trying to sell me on and say they’re family member lost ten pounds in a week doing that diet. That’s why I said please don’t try to sell me on anything.

They do it to smokers and domestic violence surviors also. I stand up for myself. But ive learned to after 40 years of illness. Def stand up for yourself whenever its your body. That goes for family trying to guilt or force you into anything too. (Like trying to come to an appt with you or anything like that. )

Would Dr. Mike had gotten this diagnosis if it had not been for the other doctors? He has stated in previous videos that doctors start simple and then if that treatment doesn't work then move onto more complex treatments. There wasn't a rash when he went to see the first doctor. All he had then was joint pain. Obese patient with joint pain, probably every doctor would have thought joint pain due to obesity. Probably OTC meds not the best prescription, but again try the least invasive procedures or meds and then move up from there. The urgent care clinic really missed the diagnosis because they are presented with everything Dr. Mike is given, but they are "urgent care" and just want to move patients through the door quickly. His main symptom is a rash and common treatment is simply a steroid cream. You get what you pay for. So he followed Dr. Mike's advice and got the second opinion because clearly this wasn't getting better and went to a real doctor who is presented with all of the symptoms. Good Dr. House. This would make a good episode.

There is the other side of that coin-while fat-bias definitely exists in the medical profession as it's the easiest scapegoat for common ailments, many times overweight patients don't want to admit that it's their excess weight at the root of their problems. The worst part of that denial is patients commonly continue seeking for that one person that will tell them that their weight is not the problem and that they just have 'chronic ' which requires expensive woo-woo treatments and then they cling to it until their symptoms become life-threatening (and beyond). Both are a form of laziness (to properly investigate on doctors' side and/or do something about their weight on patients' side) that have costed countless of lives so far...

While this is true, do NOT take this as reassurance that "it's not my weight". 99.99% of the times, it is the weight causing it. Once in a great while, it's wrong though. Bias always exists for a reason.

@@rabbit251 Obese people know their bodies. If we go to the doctor for joint pain that suddenly came on you can probably be pretty sure its not because of our being overweight. The first doctor was either just dismissive (which always happens) or overworked and was trying to burn through patients and didn't take the proper time they should have.

Same. I was taken on and off antibiotics because the symptoms would get so bad while on them.

So what should someone with dogs look out for symptoms etc? I have dogs and ticks are really bad in Cali this time of year :(

Short of an extensive blood test there's no real way to detect Borellia though. My mother was recently told she's developing reumatoid arthritis and told "Oh by the way, there's also signs of an old bite of a tick in your blood". We never knew and all the time there has simply never been a reason to test her blood. Many other things got done, blood pressure, x-ray, simple blood test for infection etc, but simply no reason to do a detailed one to detect Borellia. No symptoms though, so that's good. The reason is ussually because doctors are not at liberty to overdiagnose. If you prescribe unnecessary tests, you'll get arguments from both the insurance (or the patient if they're paying themselves) and your hospital because there's already waiting lists, so simply no time for 'what ifs'. When I was 22 I had to shell out for a private clinic to get tested for throat cancer. The waiting lists in between 4 tests of which only the last one would be utterly conclusive, was so hugely long because of all the boomers living it up for free, that it was either pay up, or accept a small chance that you're waiting so long that they'll definately tell you it's terminal by the time you're finally tested and you better start arranging your funeral. How do you think it would go down with me and all the people waiting for a test if they were told "Yeah, we kinda weren't sure about these other patients, so we're making you wait another eight weeks and possibly killing you, to run some tests on them that have a 1% chance of finding anything"? There's no perfect solution given the difference between supply and demand for healthcare (and the impossibility of affording good healthcare while the boomers are still alive)

"Old age" problems have to be caused by something. Just saying patient is old isn't a diagnosis. Finding what disease/problem is exploiting the weak body of an old man is the diagnosis.

My cousin was very young and got sick. They kept saying it was a flu or something. My uncle found a tick on her scalp and they finally tested for Lyme disease

Testing for Lymes disease has been and continues to be under utilized and not followed through on. Unless you happen to be a dog. Mine get tested annually for tick borne illnesses as a part of their physical. And have been for years. Go figure.

Well, if it was due to "old age" then what? He should have died suffering until last day? What kind of doctor is that? Every kind of health problem ALMOST has some kind of treatment, it may not just work. But those guys did not seem to try at all. I am happy that your dad got saved.

I don’t doubt she was a b- to you, but she may have been asking about fatty foods if she suspected a gallbladder attack. They are extremely painful and are triggered by eating a fatty meal.

@@SaraMGreads but the way she assumed the op ate fatty foods just because their overweight

@@SaraMGreads Theres ways to ask that question though. What have you eaten recently? Have you had any particularly fatty foods? Not "You MUST eat A LOT of fatty foods, right?". There's still such a thing as bedside manner and that proved to be non existent within that

@@blazingapparition2687 like I said, sounds like she was a B-.

Ovarian cysts are very complicated. My daughter had one at 13(?) maybe even 12... we were traveling at the time, had to stop at an ER not in our community. Took forever to see a Dr, took a complete history w/o addressing her pain at all. Made her drink a vast amount of liquid so they could ultrasound... by the time they actually did sonogram, the cyst had ruptured, and she was recovering. To this day don't know why they didn't treat her pain, or do a transvaginal ultrasound? Very frustrating. We spent 6 hrs in ER for nothing

I lived in Illinois for 19 years of my life. Glad I left

Who would have thought ticks that live all throughout the United States actually lived all throughout the United States, right? 😅

@@The_lukas_official Good for you dude, I'll get out of this shithole someday

Wait ticks don’t pay attention to border lines

@@Nawmps hell yeah. Taxes too high, politics too screwed, freedoms too restricted. Find a nice place man

And the worst thing is that this happens to women even more than men. Like I seriously had GPs who attributed my frequent colds (no fever but foggy mind, runny nose ans sore throat) to my excess weight. And one who attributed that to a cat fur allergy (I've grown up around cats, later I went to live without cats for prolonged periods of time, there was no difference until I started contrast showers and learned to destress).

@@atriyakoller136 did you get Lyme?

@@serinab I don't know, I haven't been tested :(

I'll be honest I would say a isze 16 is definitely concerning but I had that prolem even at size a size 8 US with a high proportion of muscle. they tried to suggest weight loss clinics to me as an ex anorexic. The issue is doctors not realising two things can be true at the same time. You can be overweight and your eight can possibly exacerbate some health issues, we as patients can do things that don't do us any favours, but you can also have plenty of conditions that have nothing to do with the weight whatsoever and you shouldn't be neglected or left untreated, not validated,believed or heard JUST because you're overweight. That is negligence, discrimination and nasty bias from the doctor he should be educated enough to look past

I've found older doctors to me far more dismissive of any other symptom than my weight and gender (cis-female). It's actually the younger specialists who have looked beyond the 'elephant in the room' and actually listened to symptoms and made a diagnosis based on that and not my weight/gender.

@R You aren't from my time where they judged you on your pant size hon. That's all I meant. You know nothing of my history just what I wrote here lol. Guess you feel better telling me that my doctor was right lol.

That's just terrible. Too many dr's. get something stuck in their head and they don't want to bother. I call it lazy. They want the money but do not want to earn it.

A very serious problem! You are amazing!! 🤩 Getting through all of that, and continuing to fight for yourself... dang! 👏 WOW!! GOOD FOR YOU!!! I sincerely hope you are getting PROPER care, and some REAL relief now🤞🤞🤞

Yep, it sure is. I had some really good doctors, but when moving always dreaded having to find a new one. One that I had (temporarily) basically just said everything was related to my weight--everything! SO ridiculous. Now that I am much thinner (no longer considered obese), I am taken much more seriously medically.

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As someone with PCOS, I find it really hard to lose weight. Almost impossible. You lost 100 pounds??? Congratulations! Can I ask what you did to lose weight?

Hope she gets better 🙏🏻

Hopefully she gets better and is doing well 🙏🏻❤️

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@Fried Egg how is cringe?

@@donnyshields4450 flaunting sexuality is cringe

This is very tragic, but I'm happy she was able to push through 10 years just to see you grow despite the fact that everything was stacked against her

I'm so sorry you went through that.

I am so sorry, women continue to be treated like garbage in the health system. We need to continue to fight!

This is so unfair, and I am so, so sorry this happened. Thank you also for sharing it with us.

The same thing happened to my aunt. They kept telling her nothing was wrong even though she kept complaining about pain. I'm so sorry for your loss. There is a DNA test they can do that will tell you if you have the gene. I do not have the gene so I have a 2% chance of getting ovarian cancer.

I'm so sorry for your loss ❤

@@syzygy4365 dw she’s alive lol but thank u

Hilariously enough, vets are among some of the best with catching lyme! Doctors are too often busy trying to mitigate something a human is doing (rather than looking at the situation), but vets don't often think an animal is doing something for a specific outcome.

I guessed Lymes disease too! 😊 pat on the back

That was my reaction as well. I’m not in the medical field, but body aches, fatigue and rash immediately screamed Lyme Disease. My brother has had Lyme before.

I guessed lyme disease as soon as he showed that rash picture. I had it last summer and my rash looked exactly like that, with all the other symptoms he mentioned too. Luckily, since I live in CT and doctors around here are so used to seeing it, my doctor diagnosed it immediately and started me on the meds to treat it right away.

As soon as I heard rash and joint pain, I knew it was lymes disease, which I’ve had multiple times.

If a doctor can't figure something as basic as rapid weight loss as a red flag, then they literally do not have the necessary intellectual capacity to BE a doctor and should be banned from the profession.

I had something similar happen to me, but found a decent doctor to go through it. After having a low fever and extreme fatigue for weeks and no clue as to what was causing these, the 3rd doctor I saw asked me when was the last time I weighted myself (it'd been before I got ill). He tells me to go check my weight, and my first reaction was "I don't think this is this calibrated?" Turns out I'd unintentionally lost almost 10 Kg / over 20 lbs in 3 weeks. I was suddenly an urgent patient because it seemed like a textbook case of lymphoma.

@@S_Carol Well, thank God you were able to get good care. I hope you’re well now.

@@StevXtreme This is what happens when you remove natural selection from humanity. Domesticated humans get dumber as time goes on.

Lets all take the lesson to get screened for cancer at 15 year intervals, and absolutely get checked after sudden changes to the body. That sounds like a very difficult cancer to identify without some serious technology to aid. Placing the guilt on your routine family doctor seems over the top

Me too! As a patient with a unique anatomy I was constantly sexualized and inappropriately molested by Dr's wanting to do uneccessary and sometimes invasive sexual like exams on me in my late teens/early 20s.

Fellow zebra here! The number of times I was told to lose weight and it was just anxiety when it was EDS and POTS...I'd be rich if I'd thought to have doctors write down refusal to pursue other tests. It took THIRTY YEARS to be diagnosed with POTS!

I have EDS too. I feel the same way!

How else do you tell someone that they need to lose weight in order to improve your health?

@@sheldondinkleberg6525dawg its an 11 year old, you don’t call a child fat as a doctor. You talk to the parents about their diet

@@remains10I was going to say I was chubby but very active when I was little and when I sprained my ankle because I slid the wrong way into home base they tried to blame my weight and didn’t even try to talk bout a diet with my mom they just said oh she’s 5 pounds over she’s obese 😂

@@remains10 Jesus, i can see youre weight through your dumb comment.

@@sheldondinkleberg6525 By being an actually good doctor that knows what they're talking about first.

Wishing you guys health and happiness ❤

I'm so glad he got better!

I'm so glad there was a happy ending. Extremely frustrated you both had to go through that for so long though. I wish you all a very happy life and your little one(s) grow up to be innocent angels.

Awee ♡ wishing you all well!

Beewop

I'm 15 and I have a doctor like him too. I have had him for a few years now and he always does his best. While my illness are chronic and he often refers me to other doctors, he always does a good job. He even got me unban from the GI doctor's from pushing so much. I'm glad that others also have similar experiences with good doctors and people that will listen to them

Women get ignored a LOT for menstrual problems. It's really sad. You have to FIGHT to get diagnosed :(

PCOS sucks :(

@@breklein3338 I've experienced average periods, I can't imagine having PCOS.

I'm so so so glad that your mom fought for a real diagnosis while you were still young. I'm 35 and was just recently finally diagnosed with endometriosis and pcos after 20+ years of suffering and missing school and work due to what my doctors said were "just pms" or "just bad periods". I will never shut up about how poorly women are treated and under diagnosed-especially if weight is also a factor. I was told for years and years it would get better if I lost weight but that's not at all how endometriosis or even pcos work. They don't just go away when you've reached some magical bmi number..I lost over 100 pounds and still felt as miserable as ever 😞

This is HEARTBREAKING. I'm so sorry you went through that as a child!!! You are brave and resilient for continuing to seek help in spite of such a negative early experience, and the continued issues with providers as an adult. I wish you peace, good health, and much joy!

I feel ya - I had a 16 cm ovarian teratoma and no one believed me…until I got a spinal cord injury and they found it on my MRIs… Also turns out I have a lot of autoimmune issues - all blamed on my weight, until due to gastroparesis I was put in liquids only for a year…lost 100 lbs and got taken seriously now that I had “atypical anorexia” and wound up relearning to eat solid foods in treatment. 🙄 same with all the joint dislocations, which turns out I have Ehlers-Danlos. I agree I’m better off with the weight gone because it’s easier on my joints, but…yeah I have so many other actual health conditions that were dismissed due to my weight. Never mind my parents’ fat phobia, telling me to “run off” my broken foot 🙄

@@lindsaysheffield Yikes! 16cm = over 6 inches! I'm so sorry for all you've been through! I too was "lucky" to ultimately have many of my health issues verified with lab tests and official diagnoses, but I don't know if the psychological damage from being disbelieved for so long will ever go away. I'm especially sorry your own parents told you to "run off" a broken foot!!!! : - ( I try to remind myself that when you are an outlier physically (I also have EDS), sometimes people genuinely can't conceptualize that things you're reporting are possible. But it still hurts to not be believed, especially when you're hurting! I wish you well (literally : - )!

this is HORRIBLE. i’m glad you got through it now, but nobody should ever be failed by the system like that!

@R No, R, you clearly did NOT get the message, and your comment is stunningly insensitive and inappropriate in this context.

I’m sorry you were treated so badly for so long. I’m glad you’re doing better now with a medical team that is working with you instead of against you.

I wish I could hug you.

You are so right with the Medicaid bias. One of the saddest things is many people who are on Medicaid don’t know how poorly they are being treated. Providers don’t make money on Medicaid patients, so they often want to get rid of them and hope they go elsewhere.

just get a top of the line electric water heater easy

@@ryanlai5290 pr just boil the water

Your blood cells are 200 times more susceptible to carbon monoxide than oxygen. It is harder to break too.

CO poisoning is no joke! As someone who’s had it twice, the first thing I check in an apartment or house is the carbon monoxide detector (and yet I tried to climb into the wall of one place to look at the asbestos. Because I wanted to see it. The inspector had to hold me back saying “We got another cat-scientist, guys. Should we let him look?”)

A relative moved into a new house years ago. The very first night the husband woke up when he heard the baby crying but he couldn't get up to check on her. He woke his wife up and she was able to get everyone out of the house. It turned out that the heater was hooked up wrong and was venting it's exhaust into the ductwork. If the baby hadn't cried in the middle of the night they probably wouldn't have survived until morning.

That's why we need to plan ourselves making extras in all we do because depending on paycheck that can give us our comfort and peace till we die is not guaranteed

This is actually what most families are going through, tax and rents takes almost what they got monthly, leaving them with no savings...

I'm a nurse and I saw all this coming, so I've planned myself so I engaged in forex trading, little I know about the business though but so far so good, Forex trading has been my very means of savings lately while my salary goes for bills and utilities

Despite the huge drop in crypto and fx, I still make good withdrawals. I don't believe that profit making is not possible despite the drop in stocks when you got good mentorship

I'm new to cryptocurrency trading and I've been making huge losses but recently see a lot of people earning from it. Please can someone tell me what to do?🙏

I went undiagnosed with Lyme disease for six years, and nearly died, because "there's no Lyme disease in the UK", despite the fact I lived right by a deer park

@@maymcgrath13 isnt Lyme pretty much everywhere? Its more prevalent in some places, but to say it doesnt exist somewhere is so incredibly ignorant of that doctor.

I went on for my whole life completely unaware of my chronic migraines. I thought all headaches were that bad. I even had surgery on my sinuses because I thought I had a blocked sinuses. Nope. It was migraine the whole time. Apparently it's not normal to need exedrin migraine with you at all times. I remember the first time I ever saw anyone for my head. I was rolling on the floor screaming (I was 12 years old at the time) and so to the hospital we went. I had an MRI, which was clear. I was then ASKED IF I WAS BULLIED. Hmm yes. I was tiny for my age, rarely ate anything because of a growth hormone disorder. Yes, I was bullied as a child. But, the migraine was the issue at the time. So, I went on for decades unaware that headaches shouldn't be this frequent or painful. It's so aggravating. Finally being diagnosed is just as awful though because insurance doesn't seem to want to cover anything or really even communicate. Then the medications I can take (yep, there's a whole class of them i can't because of a congenital heart defect) gives nausea which is one of the symptoms I want to go away!

@@xladyfayre Ridiculous that insurance can deny you the treatment for migraines because its "unstudied" and therefore "Not an issue that needs to be treated" Edit: Im a sufferer of Chronic Migraine With Aura, trust me, I relate.

I thought it was lyme as soon as he listed symptoms too. I got lyme disease at 18. Luckily I caught the rash in time so my doctor was able to tell what it was and get me on treatment right of way. But not everyone has a bullseye rash or notices it in time. I was only stage one and I had pain in my joints like he described.

so being an obese female pt. did not raise their suspicions for gallstones at the beginning at all? even though that's the first thing to be ruled out when talking about right upper quadrant pain? brushing it off as just food poisoning without doing a physical examination? is this real? @.@ wow, what happened to the mnemonic 5F? (Fat, Female, Fourty YO, Fetus, Fair --- the most common pts. to get acute cholecystitis) @o@ ... Hope you are doing well now, and that such an experience never recurs God bless you for your patience :3

I've had a similar experience. I had appendicitis and had extreme pain because my appendix had burst. I was 12, so the doctors thought I was overreacting on the pain level that it was or how long I had the pain for. I wasn't overweight or anything, I was healthy weight. But, the doctors pushed it off as nothing serious before they discovered my appendix had burst and I needed surgery about 2 days after my first symptoms.

Hope that you are ok now !

I 100% sympathize there. When I was in my early 20's I went to the ER in EXTREME pain. I was vomiting to the point where I was wetting myself, and I couldn't keep anything down, not even water. My mom was there and kept insisting that it was my gallbladder, she had to have it removed a couple years before, so she recognized my symptoms as matching hers. The doctors ruled it out because of my age. While they were trying to figure it out, they refused to give me anything for the intense pain. Hours later I was diagnosed with a huge stone blocking my gallbladder, was admitted to the hospital for surgery, and finally given pain medication.

@@Celebriel82 it just takes an ultrasound to know if there’s something up with the gallbladder, how lazy of them 😑

If the doctors telling you that are general practitioners, then you can't really expect them to give good advice on nutrition, because they don't really study it in much detail at med school. Gastroenterologists should know more. At the very least they should have given you a referral to a nutritionist, who should be able to recommend a diet based on your needs and preferences, and spot problems with what you're eating, including detecting problems like gluten or lactose intolerance. As for the exercise, cardio exercises (e.g. fast walking, running, cycling, swimming, etc.) are probably the quickest and most effective to lose weight when you're overweight, though once you lose the easy pounds you should also do resistance training (e.g. weightlifting) because doing only cardio will eventually slow down your metabolism, which can cause you to regain the weight. If adhering to a workout routine proves difficult, then don't fuss about the type of exercise, just do whatever exercises you find most enjoyable and fun.

Start moving every day, and cut your food intake. Count calories, snack on fruits and veggies. There is no magic recipe but you can do it. Keep at it my dude you are a champion

I know a girl who hates the outdoors due to many allergies and has no pets for the same reason, but still managed to get a tick (and Lyme's), just by walking through a tiny park in the city center that is on the way to her work...

You should probably lose weight too

Computers have doctors?

@@xxinsain2509 He or she probably knows that.

@@xxinsain2509 What makes you think they're not doing that

@@xxinsain2509 And you should mind your own business

That’s horrifying 😔

I feel you. It took me five years to finally get my thyroid issues treated. I’m now left with very little hair from not having it treated for such a long time and it’s not growing back to the way it used to be.

That's nuts. Even just reading your symptoms my first thought was thyroid. That's just a shitty doctor.

I feel you. My SIL gained 60 lbs in 2 months. But her energy also increased A LOT and she lost all appetite. Other symptoms too like losing period. Breaking bones barely touching them. She used to run a MIN of 10 miles a day and increased when this started. Her PCP sent her to and endocrinologist. The guy didn't look at a single thing, took one look at her and said she's too fat and that's why she lost her period. Said she was lying about exercise and eating. It took 12 years of seeing rude and dismissing Drs before one finally said let me run this $100 test to see something before we run an MRI. Sure enough she had brain cancer. Plus they very much wanted children and she lost all her prime child bearing years. Because Drs CANNOT see beyond weight.

A video like this is truly refreshing. As an overweight person myself, I'll never forget this one time I went to my family doctor as a teenager. I went to see her regarding fatigue and light headedness, she recommended I exercise more and eat less junk food. Well, I was lucky to have a mom who cooked healthy food most nights and I also did sports and walked to and from school, so I really didn't know what to cut from my diet or how much more exercise I could handle considering my new fatigue and light headedness. I went to a walk-in clinic for the same issue and they did a blood test. Turns out I had severely low iron levels and a low blood count, most likely from my very heavy periods. Some iron-rich foods and iron supplements helped a lot, I rarely ever get light headed anymore!

thyroid issues run in my family and this has happened to us, sometimes it takes years to be believed

Appetite suppressing antidepressant is the right choice in that case though. Our value as humans defines over so many variables, and you could be overweight and still overall be the best human being on this planet. That does NOT mean that you couldnt be even better with a healthy weight. Every human has flaws, nobody is perfect. Its our lifelong mission to work on these flaws, may they be a lack of knowledge, biases and fallacies, personality weaknesses like short temper or lack of empathy, or physical weaknesses like an unhealthy bodyweight. Don't make it such a big deal. A physicians job is to help you get healthier. If they spot any risk factor, they have to advice you. So if they notice that you are overweight and dont inform you about risks and treatment strategies, they fail as doctors. Bad doctors JUST give you pharmaceuticals, good doctors also put emphasis on lifestyle changes etc. Of course, missing an abdominal tumor due to bias is a malpractice. Its not fat bias though, its called ‚Premature closure bias’ -> A doctor sees an obvious possible cause of a symptom and doesn’t investigate further. Far too common. Another example is a patient with history of migraine getting a brain bleed, and the doctor just assumes its the migraine again that is causing the headache. Thats why careful investigation is necessary. Doesnt mean its specifically connected to fat in any way. But if that doctor didnt do a premature closure mistake, the abdominal tumor should have been identified easily. The problem is not specific fat bias but physicians trying to safe time and not investigating properly.

@@thomass.4007 Imagine thinking "I have a take" and this was the take

@@tyriaxepheles7996 What do you mean?

Adipose tissue does a really nasty number on your hormones and brain chemistry. It also increases inflammation, which affects psoriasis. Of course they gave you appetite suppressants! You don't treat someone for burns without getting them out of the burning building first. 🤦‍♀️

@@thomass.4007 🤡

Have you tried not being fat

@@xxinsain2509 Have you tried not being an internet troll?

@君は可愛いね it’s sarcasm. it’s the same joke as “if you are on a wheelchair, just stand up and walk”

@@dennraeh you can always work towards not being fat. But you don’t have a choice to work to stand up out of a wheel chair most of the time. Big difference.

@@philipsavenkovsavenkov3855 I just said it’s sarcasm.

Rest In Peace to your grandma.

That's really scary to hear..She's now in a better place with no pain

I really hope you made a formal complaint! I had a Dr misdiagnose me with bad periods, even though it was so bad sometimes I had to crawl to the toilet, I went and got a second and 3rd opinion and it turned out to be endometriosis and could of left me infertile, first Dr wasnt impressed and complained that he isnt entirely right, I never went to him again

@@kiaora224 well her and also the company. I turned them into the state medical board where I lived for misdiagnosing me for months. It turned out that particular company had a huge string of complaints and they were kinda known to hire doctors on a last resort basis.

So you just had gout?

@@anthonyd4771 not really. Gout usually forms in one part of your body. Usually it’s your big toe. With me, my uric acid will build up anywhere. And unlike gout where you can mostly control it by a specific diet, this I have no control over. I have pills that keep my uric acid level down but that’s it. And when someone has a gout attack they mostly just have the size of a dime of uric acid on that joint. In my case, I had the size of a softball full of uric acid on the side of my knee.

245lbs at 6’2” isn’t even that overweight? That’s like an average person.

@君は可愛いね yea that was crazy, man's was just stating health facts about obesity effecting quality of life and whatnot.

What I love is that he readily agrees that every Dr has biases that they have to overcome, himself included. And then he actively works to overcome bias.

See on the flip side i had a pt who was 300lb woman who had hip replacement done at a younger age and had severe compilations that were great compounded by her weight. It is a risk

It's good to know there are doctors like your second ortho. Even people with no pain have trouble losing weight and it seems like you are very motivated. Glad you are feeling better

@@corpsepaws How sweet you are. They're point isn't that they are not obese/overweight. It's that dumb doctors ignore every other possibility and attribute all their issues to their weight. Sure, weight can cause issues sometimes. But that doesn't mean you should be denied proper testing and diagnosis cus weight is the first thing they see. 🤷‍♀️

@@lilacblue3331 he said if, he's not being mean about ut

Even my gynecologist... 🙄

@@Spidsle my point remains nonetheless, it's not impossible that their weight is affecting them, but homing in on that one possibility of many does not help people as Dr Mike explained

Same

Oh my God that an amazing journey! 👏 Hope your doing well!

I'm so sorry. I have a good friend with that. It's rough.

EDS is so painful. My doctor still refuses to diagnose me with it because "it's a rare disorder and we just don't see a lot of it" even though I'm not overweight and I had a first cousin that died of complications from vEDS (vascular ehlers danlos syndrome) and I have an uncle with classic hypermobile EDS they've told me well you probably just have arthritis I'm not even (wasn't even 25 at the time) 30 yet oh you might have osteoarthritis I'm not even 30 yet oh it's just hypermobility I can put my feet on the ground and bend down to where my knees almost flat to the ground without my heels leaving the ground that's how hypermobile my ankles are the bones in my feet pop in and out of place I've had the bones in my elbows pop in and out of place it hurts I have absolutely no stability in any of my joints and trying to lift things that are even the slightest bit heavy not happening. My joints give out and I drop it. Unfortunately even with all the symptoms I show of EDS- the typical bruising like a peach if I clap my hands together because I'm at an event that requires clapping I break the veins in my hands no matter how softly I clap and it hurts. If I dribble a basketball I break the veins in my hands if I play volleyball I break the veins in my hands and arms they cannot get a pediatric long gauge needle in my veins without blowing several IV sites they can't push contrast dye through an IV without blowing my veins to shreds with it half the time they can't do the convenient thing and draw blood through an IV line because it'll blow the IV every time my veins shred like tissue paper I get awful bruises from the littlest of things that take forever to go away it's not my thyroid because every time I bring it up they test my thyroid my thyroid levels are normal it has been a fight for years my chronic constipation issues, my issues with my spinal column, my spine is super hypermobile in all directions and it causes so much pain, I can almost touch my forearms flat to the ground without bending my knees. I can touch my palms flat together behind my upper back. It's a little ridiculous how flexible I am. If I kick a soccer ball (yes with shoes on) I tear the veins in my feet to shredds if I kick it with the top of my foot. My hips make awful snapping noises when I stand up sometimes and so do my knees and it hurts sometimes to the point where I tear up and can't stand or fall down or have to sit back down so I don't fall down. When I'm not pregnant I weigh 135 to 145 lb and for being almost 5 foot 4 and the type of body structure I have is perfectly healthy for me. I only have weight in one spot and it's not my gut or my butt for that matter. It gets exhausting after a while considering some days I have such severe muscle weakness and pain that I cannot get out of bed without it being a Herculean effort. But oh you're probably dehydrated drink more water even though you drink 5-7 20 oz tumbler cups of water with no ice in it a day. If anything I drink too much water.

I also scar very easily if you look at my hands and arms you can see everywhere I've ever had an IV because it scars.

I also have EDS. Painful. I am glad you got diagnosed 💕

My daughter has EDS. As do I by symptoms-I’m morbidly obese so my pain, joint problems, gut problems, etc are all attributed to my obesity

@Demon Slayer it really depends on where you’re at actually

@Demon Slayer and that's the problem, creates the mentality of "I'm not being paid enough for this", which for a job where the professional can save or not a life, is surely horrible

Primary care physicians actually dont make that much money in comparison to other drs. In the dealth field. Actually one of the worst paid in fact, them and pediatricians make terrible money. (Again for being drs. But those degrees cost them alot of money)

Honestly, I'm sure most doctors don't just care about money. I think they are just overworked and burnt out. Especially when patients come in and try to argue with you because they self diagnosed on google

@@achaides There are several chronic illnesses where google and online support groups help more than doctors. Many people with chronic illnesses take years and many doctors to finally be properly diagnosed. People have been living with it for decades while doctors might have never heard of it or just in one lecture. It's okay if a doctor doesn't know something but it's not okay to dismiss symptoms as psychosomatic or due to being overweight instead of doing their research! A huge example is ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis). There are very few ME doctors out there and some doctors even prescribe harmful treatments from which patients may never recover. So google and online communities can help a lot of people!! Doctors should be open to discussing treatment options and talk on eye level. Studies have even proven that this increases the outcome.

As a retired nurse, good for you!! And yes, obesity gets blamed for a lot of things. Take that knowledge with you as you progress in your studies and career. Use it to be a patient advocate. Your patients will thank you.

My doctor is exactly like him. Almost down to the personality. When I first started watching him, I immediately fell in love because e reminds me of my amazing doctor. (With chronic illnesses, I visit him a lot)

Ikr? And I can't believe people think and call Dr Mike as fatphobic. He is exactly the opposite of that but not the extreme opposite.

Thank you *so much* for making this video. I relate to such a tragic degree. While my primary issue by far is not being overweight, if anything I'm (BMI-wise at least) leaning more to the side of underweight.. I usually fluxuate between being normal weight range to underweight, again BMI-wise..). My primary and most obivious issue is mainly being a drug addict/heroin/opiod and benzodiazepine addict, and secondarily yet still as well primarily mentally ill, as in struggling with severe PTSD, anxiety, depression as well as perhaps bipolar disorder or something similar.. I was in the process of working with a psychiatrist to diagnose - not just for the sake of having the diagnosis, but so that I could get treatment. Same goes for severe undiagnosed sleep issues. Anyway.. (nearly, as in 9/10 times of) anytime I go to ANY doctor, they always attribute any and every problem on either my addiction or my mental health struggles, smfh. I struggle with a whole heck of a lot of chronic pain, something I've dealt with since BEFORE I even became addicted to opiods, heroin for the most part.. so one can only imagine the sheer anger and frustration I feel whenever my other, more *legitimate* physical issues just gets written off. It's alwsys immidiatly assumed I just want more drugs.. NO. I want to beat my addiction, but that becomes IMPOSSIBLE if the root issues won't be addressed. Same goes for my sleep issues and mental health issues. I KNOW there is something physically wrong with my body, but NOBODY even bothers giving me a referral elsewhere, whether it's physiotherapy or something like that or a pain specialist. Same goes for my sleep issues.. I always hammer home the point that I'm not seeking more drugs, but rather that I'm desperatly seeking long term TREATMENT so that I could eventually actually either wean off the few medications I get, or get completely off them.. not being forced to take all kinds of medications, supplemented with illegal drugs to self medicate, because the far too mild medications I barely even get prescribed barely give me any relief, and they most certainly only work as a bandaid on a gushing wound. I'd LOVE to be able to not have to spend so much money on both legal and illegal drugs in order to just barely function, but seemingly my doctor would rather have me continue self medicate in order to simply treat the synptoms, rather than treat the root of the actual problem. I've had to deal with this for countless years now, and my body is deteriorating. Since all I can do is treat the symptoms, the root issues, whatever they actually are, simply get worse - forcing me to take even more illegal medications including fricking heroin, while being forced to increase the amount and strength of the medications/drugs, since the root issues are not at all treated. It just makes me so mad. The medical community gives me NO CHOICE but to stay addicted, because they refuse to even to a standard, routine checkup. They never take any of my serious issued seriously. I've been to rehab multiple times, so I've been sober for some months to about a little over an actual full year, and guess what.. I've never felt more sluggishly unhealthy and more in pain than those times. I've been told several times that "if only you sobered up, you'd feel so much better even in just weeks to some short months. That was complete BS. Any time I tried rehabilitation, both my physical and mental health deteriorated. They had to put me BACK ON DRUGS *IN REHAB* as all my issues only got 100x worse.. I became practically completely insomnic, developed signs of shizophrenia and dissosiation, I could barely even walk due to all the physical pain - rehab only made me worse. Yet, they refused to acknowledge that I have severe and highly legitimate underlying issues. The amount of stigma people like me, with either drug addictions and/or mental health issues *(especially both)* face from not just the general population, but the medical field -- even so called addiction "soecialists" and mental health "specialists" is disgustingly staggering, and should never be tolerated. It's truly shameful. It's awfully sad that the people who are supposed to have enough understanding, knowledge and empathy, as well as supposed professionalism can often times be the ones who treat you worst out of everyone. It's pathetic, negliegent and tragic. Purely disgusting. No wonder the OD-statistic is so incredibly high.

i hope you fired the doctor and reported him to his medical board