I’m due for my 9 /12 monthly appointment with my neuro. As usual I will be weighed by one of the outpatient nurses. I dread this cos i know I’ve put on about half a stone since I was last weighed there. Is it the norm to be weighed every time by Neurology? Does anyone on here go through the same thing?
It’s a pain as they make you feel quite bad if you put on any weight but I’ve been diagnosed with arthritis in my feet since my last weigh in and it hurts a lot to walk so I can’t even exercise like I used to.
I think it’s just the norm for any hospital appointment, however, as I’m sure you’re aware, weight gain when you have arthritis can make moving around more difficult.
Crumbs, I wouldn’t like that much either. I have been going to neurology outpatients appts for 16 years and it hasn’t happened yet. Probably one of those things that varies from region to region and in your region everyone has to hop on the scales for some reason or other, probably long-forgotten by everyone including the staff who dutifully do it. Best to keep your chin up, keep the smile flying and and don’t take it personally.
You can have it put in your notes that you don’t wish to be weighed. I am wheelie fast and they forced me out of it once and I almost fell over and was roughly manhandled back into it, without being weighed! I was in floods of tears!
Thankfully they don’t weigh me. I’d dread it every time. Last time I was weighed in hospital she started telling me what I weighed, but I more or less stuck my fingers in my ears and went “lalalalalala”, cos I don’t want to know.
The very few times l have had a neuro appointment - they have always weighed me - and measured my height - then blood pressure. And it is always by a very over-weight nurse. ln fact, all the nurses l saw were extremely heavy. Uniforms bursting - and obvious panty line. Do they never look in a mirror. lts a long walk to get from the car-park - with several stops - but even then my very low blood pressure only went up to 101/70
When l was attending the orthopaedic section re hip and knee replacement - l had to attend a ‘education class’. Where we were lectured on diet and exercise by the fattest nurse ever.
Since l have been on the 5-2 diet my weight is now 9st 8lb. Could be a lot better l know - as l am only 5ft 4in. But once they weighed me and said it was 11stone. And they put me down as ‘obese’.
Life is much easier without carrying heavy loads - so l will continue to try and lose it. Exercise is good to keep blood circulating and muscles and joints working better - but you would need to run miles to lose 100 calories.
l just do not eat carbs. Feel much better not eating bread/cereal/cake/biscuits etc. Lots of chicken/fish/meat/fat/eggs/ green veg and salad. And water of course.
The truth is that exercise does not do much to help with weight loss, although it is pretty vital for general health. If you have difficulty with weight bearing exercise then why not try swimming, or cycling instead?
Many of these exercises can be carried out from a seated position.
I was weighed at my first neuro appointment. Recently I was weighed at the pain management clinic, the consultant said extra weight may contribute to more pain in back and legs.
I have never been weighed at my Neurology appointments. I think I would refuse anyway as I can be quite vocal and I think you unfortunately you have to be.
I’ve only been weighed once at a Neurology appointment.
I recently had an interesting discussion with the Practice Nurse at my GPs concerning my height/weight ratio - I am 5ft 3" - weigh in at 10 st 9 lbs - and wear size 12;
According to the lovely weight loss literature at my GPs, I should weigh between 8 st 10 lbs and 9 st 8 lbs; last time I got down to 9 st 8 lbs (when I was 21 and wore size 6-8) people I worked with were seriously concerned for my health because I looked seriously unwell/skeletal.
At the height of my physical fitness when I was teaching Pole Fitness and practising Taekwondo, I was 10 st 4 lbs and wore size 8 - 10 jeans.
So - I questioned the validity of the weight charts being used at the Surgery, I obviously did not fit into their stereotypical height/weight range - no doubt a lot of other people don’t either.
Maintaining a healthy body weight when you can’t exercise is hard enough without medical staff (especially those who are overweight themselves) relying solely on potentially unrealistic weight charts.
I havent been weighed in yonks and would love to know what I weigh now, cant get it right for doing wrong can we? I am in a wheelchair so they obviously think sausages to weighing him because I cant stand. I am heavier now than at anytime in my life because I cannot move around, I do what exercise I can ad it is virtually nil. Dont take it personally they probably get a bonus for weighing people. Tell them you cannot do it and then if they push it tell them politely to take a run and jump.
Take a couple of hundred helium filled balloons in with you.
I can’t say it worked for me as I now live in a remote area of Saskatchewan. I didn’t take the Azores High into consideration when I planned my last visit. The natives are quite friendly and I met a really attractive moose last month.
Really Anthony, have we now got to add bestiality to your ever growing list of sins?
And btw, it’s no wonder you can’t find your socks in the remote areas of Saskatchewan. If you will move / get blown to these out of the way places, your socks are probably having a hard time keeping pace.
I was weighed when I saw a new neuro, a few months ago. This is the seventh neuro I have seen and the first time I have been weighed (or measured). Why isn’t there a standard protocol for how neuros treat MS patients?
Thanks for your input. Seems a bit hit and miss whether certain hospitals do this weigh in thing. I have to sit on a chair like Lenny has pictured.
I know I am obese, one of the nurses who weighed me scolded me and told me I was morbidly obese!!! The ironic thing is that she was massive ( cheeky mare ).
I am 5ft 7 in. and I weigh 14 stone 10 lbs. Mind you I would say half a stone of that is in my boobs alone. I’ve been fat for the last 15 years ( funnily enough since I got married ) on and off. During this time at my heaviest I was 15 stone 7lbs and once I got down to 13 stone 5 lbs but the weight just doesn’t seem to want to shift at all now. I suppose my age might not help as I’m nearly 54.
Oh well, never mind, I’ll just get in that chair and grit my teeth.
And tell that fat nurse to F off, she should try to lose weight whilst having a degenerative neurological disease. Some people with MS are still able to exercise properly, but the fact that you’ve had to be weighed in the chair scales thing tells me you’re (like me) one of those who can’t.
Many of us would like to be thinner, fitter, lighter, and we try, sometimes sporadically. But it’s flipping hard.
I’m at a point in life where, I’d like to weigh less and wear smaller clothes, and be able to stand steadily upright, let alone walk. But I can’t, so to hell with it.
