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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“It Is Impossible To Lose That Much Weight So Quickly.”
“It’s impossible to lose that much weight so quickly. Your scale is wrong.” – OB to mother in the first trimester who had lost 22 pounds in 4 weeks due to extreme morning sickness.
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That’s a fairly impressive weight-loss, but not impossible.
According to this doctor, if the doctor didn’t measure it, it didn’t happen. :-b
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Sheva Reply:
April 5th, 2012 at 6:34 pm (Quote)
But don’t they measure weight at every visit?
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Tee Reply:
April 5th, 2012 at 6:35 pm (Quote)
They usually do, yes, but this entry says it was the first trimester. Maybe the woman hadn’t seen the doctor yet and this was her first appointment?
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Jane Reply:
April 5th, 2012 at 6:39 pm (Quote)
Since the doctor said “your scale is wrong,” I’m assuming the mom knew how much she weighed, and when the doctor weighed her, she said, “Oh, wow! That’s 22 pounds less than I was before I got pregnant!” and the doctor came up with this gem.
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Christie Reply:
April 6th, 2012 at 12:34 am (Quote)
ive only ever been weighed at the booking in appointment, and this time because i was technically obese before i fell pregnant (i hadnt lost all the weight from my first) i had one appointment with the dietitian so got weighed there but otherwise its not common here in Aus, but then we do alot of things different here when it comes to maternity care
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My mom lost over 30 lbs in three weeks when she got pneumonia so severe she was hospitalized for a month. So, yes, it is entirely possible, unfortunately.
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It is impossible to have so much callous stupid in one statement, so you must not be speaking…
I think I should stop reading MOSW when I’m feeling particularly pregnant.
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Hmm, my mom did that HCG diet for a bit and lost a pound a day. For real. And, hey! Pregnant ladies have HCG naturally coursing through their bodies. SO, totally possible. And probably not fun on her part. OP, I’m so sorry this happened.
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Wow that makes me feel less bad about my hyperemesis weight loss, the same amount of weight but over 8 weeks instead of 4
Doctors don’t believe a weight measurment is real unless they take it though, I developed weird stretchmarks, never been pregnant and had not lost or gained any significant weight, and they all appeared almost overnight. The doctor said to my face that because my usual doctor had never recorded a weight on my record, he couldn’t know that I had not gained weight, and since that was the ‘only plausable explaination’, he decided I must have just put on 20 pounds and ‘not noticed’
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Actually, at my first appointment I was weighed and then at my second one I said, “wow, that’s 11 lbs less than two weeks ago”, and on and on from there. Same doctor, same office, same scale, same BS.
Needless to say, I switched doctors.
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Jespren had this to say,
Apr 6, 2012 @ 7:08 am (Quote)
Got done running a long distance marathon (as in the 5 mile kind, not the 35 mile kind) at 135 with a 102 fever that led to the nastiest case of stomach flu I’ve probably ever had, 14 days later i was 120lbs. But that isn’t even the most weight I’ve lost rapidly. After the birth of my first, while he was in the NICU I dropped from a pre-birth weight of 235lbs down to 185 in 10 days. We realized I was forgetting to eat (my son was *really sick*). I started eating again and, since my body was on starvation mode, it packed the weight right back on, in another 2 weeks I was back up to 220! It is completely possible between lack of food (either going in or coming back up) and stress to lose a great deal of weight in a very short period of time. Heck, fighters will drop 20lbs in 24 hours just sweating out water weight!
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Dear Doctor,
If it’s *actually happening*, then it’s not impossible, and you look stupid for saying so. I recently fired my DD’s urologist for that very reason.
The word “impossible” always makes me think of the line in Pirates of the Caribbean, when Jack Sparrow shows up on the Isla de Muerta after having been marrooned:
Captain Barbossa: It’s not possible!
Jack: It’s not *probable*!
I lost 40lb in 2 weeks when my first child was born, but most of that was water retention. I also lost 10lb during 3 weeks of hospital bedrest before my twins were born, and anther 20lb in 2 days when they were born. So no, it’s not impossible.
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In February, I lost 20 lbs in about 2 weeks due to my hyperemesis. I’ve plateaued and stayed at roughly the same weight since then, due to the TPN and other meds I’ve been on. NOT fun, and totally possible! Sorry you had this doc, OP, and I’m glad you were able to switch!
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Yeah with nausea as bad as I had, you sorta lose interest in eating anything after about the 2nd time you have to get re-hydrated because you keep throwing up everything including water. I lost 20 pounds in a month too. I would literally sit down next to the bucket to drink water because as soon as it hit my stomach water would come right back up.
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So rather than exploring the reasoning behind this woman’s morning sickness, showing some compassion and trying to help her, you accuse her of lying in a roundabout way. Nice, doctor, real nice.
OP, I really hope you were able to fire this jerk and find a care provider that would… I don’t know… provide care!
And for all of us wondering about the two previous submissions, I think we can all agree that this one is most certainly NOT Thoughtful Thursday! Mods, is TT out the window? I’d say maybe they ran out of submissions if it weren’t for the fact that I submitted something and haven’t seen it yet! I hope it comes back next week!
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