Weight Shaming and PCOS: My Doctor's Harmful Words

⚠️eating disorder and fat phobia/fat shaming mentioned please do not continue reading if these topics are triggering to you⚠️ For my fellow plus sized and mid sized heavier ppl with pcos have your doctor(s) also complained about your weight? It’s semi common knowledge that obesity and weight gain are a part of pcos along side it being sometimes harder to lose weight. Now with being on the bigger side a lot of us are used to getting shamed by doctors about it and they often want to blame our weight for even completely unrelated conditions. My issue is that my doctor acted as if losing weight would cure pcos. I started putting on weight when I hit puberty in about 3rd grade. I’ve always had pcos symptoms but everything was blamed on my weight until I was 16 and finally got help after constant pain and literally over 147 days of bleeding nonstop (tmi….kinda). I was so used to hearing my doctor complain about my weight even tho it didn’t and doesn’t currently effect anything. ⚠️ed mention ahead ⚠️ My doctors reactions finally got to me. I lost a L O T a of weight in less than a year (still plus sized tho) it was probably around 1/3 of my original weight. I just wish doctors understood how harmful their words are especially for teens and kids. There are many more ways to encourage healthy weight loss without shamming someone or straight up lying to them especially if the patient already has preexisting history of mental illness. I’d like to hear others stories with weight and pcos or if you’ve gotten similar reactions from doctors or people in your life.