Can being overweight (10 pounds!) really cause servere leg and feet pain?!
Question: I'm 5'7 and weigh 160 pounds. One doctor that I have is saying that the weight gain is what causing this pain (its to the point where i can walk) and that if i lose the weight i should be fine...but my question is this..i've been having this pain for over 6 months,longer that I have had this excess weight. has anyone ever had a doctor like this?and do you think it could still be a possibility (lose weight and i'll be able to walk?)
Answers: I'm 5'7 and weigh 160 pounds. One doctor that I have is saying that the weight gain is what causing this pain (its to the point where i can walk) and that if i lose the weight i should be fine...but my question is this..i've been having this pain for over 6 months,longer that I have had this excess weight. has anyone ever had a doctor like this?and do you think it could still be a possibility (lose weight and i'll be able to walk?)
Being ten pounds overweight is not the cause of your problem. Have you had your spinal column x-rayed? If you've fallen, or had a hard bump in the past, this may be the cause. Possibly, some of your spinal disks may have been bruised and are swelling up and putting pressure on the nerves that go into your legs. You may have injured your back and never known it because the pain showed up in your legs and not your back. I'd see another doctor if I were you to get a second opinion. It doesn't sound like your first doctor has turned over every rock that he can in order to find out the cause of your pain. You aren't that heavy for pain like that to be happening. Something else is the cause. Get a good doctor to find it for you.
I'm a dentist.
Obviously, I have a very limited knowledge of orthopedics, but I do know this: the average person is more than 10 lbs overweight anyway, but the average person does not have your problem with pain.
It is very unlikely that having an additional ten pounds is causing your problem.
Get a second opinion.
10 pounds shouldnt do much, but you should loose those extra 10 pounds if you were healtheir before
yes yes yes !
no idk wacth u ma call it?
you're doctor's being an ***.
i weigh more than you and i'm fine, minus the whole overweight thing.
and i'm only a little bit taller - like 1 inch.
so go to a different doctor. you might have something seriously wrong with you.
Highly unlikely that your extra ten pounds is causing you so much pain. Go to another doctor for a second opinion. Good luck