Re: Patient or User?
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 2:18 pm
Not to offend anybody.
I've never had anybody "blame" me for my OSA with those insidious "well if you'd only lose some weight" comments that are both cruel and unnecessary. I've never had those comments because I'm 5-foot 1-inch tall and my weight has never been above 115 except when I was 7+ months pregnant. At the time I was diagnosed my weight was about 105-110 pounds. At that weight, you don't get people saying you need to lose weight.
Indeed, I think part of why so many of my family and friends reacted in horror when I first started having to use a machine for OSA was the very fact that I am so far removed from anything that resembles the stereotype of an OSA patient as far as weight and neck size are concerned. I think it never dawned on some of these people that OSA was something that could affect folks who were not morbidly obese.
I've never had anybody "blame" me for my OSA with those insidious "well if you'd only lose some weight" comments that are both cruel and unnecessary. I've never had those comments because I'm 5-foot 1-inch tall and my weight has never been above 115 except when I was 7+ months pregnant. At the time I was diagnosed my weight was about 105-110 pounds. At that weight, you don't get people saying you need to lose weight.
Indeed, I think part of why so many of my family and friends reacted in horror when I first started having to use a machine for OSA was the very fact that I am so far removed from anything that resembles the stereotype of an OSA patient as far as weight and neck size are concerned. I think it never dawned on some of these people that OSA was something that could affect folks who were not morbidly obese.