How It Feels to Get a Bariatric Surgery Referral

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'The medical stigma around obesity is real. It can completely and utterly shatter people. I am one of those people. I feel lucky I was able to put back together the pieces,' AlaniMV on Shrill tackling medical stigma in a powerful way:

. Basically, my brain produces too much spinal fluid because it thinks I have a brain tumor. It’s rare, and when untreated or too far gone, it can lead to blindness. For me, it means I have chronic headaches, sometimes migraines, andThat’s a long-winded way to say that when I was 25 years old, I ended up at my first neurologist appointment. It was all fine and dandy, but it turns out that this disorder is linked to obesity or overweight patients. Weight loss is a typical “treatment.

Regardless, my first neurologist was reasonably nice to my face. When telling me about the weight loss recommendation, he didn’t seem to push too hard, other than encouraging working out and eating well. However, one of the medications used to treat the disorder can sometimes include weight loss as a side effect because it reduces appetite, which he mentioned a little enthusiastically.

I couldn’t leave my bed or work for about two weeks without getting an extreme headache and experiencing nausea. Almost a month later, I could barely do any physical activity because of lower back pain. My neurologist advised me to drink water and coffee—because that’s good for headaches?—and to take Aleve because that’s good for inflammation when I had back pain.

If this sounds familiar, you, unfortunately, might have experienced something similar. It seems all too common. In season three of’s Annie is rightfully angry when her stand-in gynecologist suggests bariatric surgery because she’s in a good age range for it and overweight. After cursing out the doctor in the parking lot , Annie writes a piece about it—yes, I know how this looks. Her character sufficiently developed at this point that the experience does not derail her too much.

 

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