Obesity Appears Linked to Pain

I've never seen a fat heroin addict!

wow is this #$%$ backwards or what? ever think chronic pain might make it hard to exersize properly and that is why people gain weight around the fact they hurt?

Osteoarthritis has been attacking my body for about 25 years. At first, pain management helped a lot. As time went on, it helped less and less. In the past few months things have degenerated a lot, and fast. No cure for the arthritis (had knee replacements several years go, they are about the only part that doesn't hurt). If we don't find a way to knock this pain back, don't know what I'll do...almost 67, didn't expect to spend my hard-earned retirement like this....and living alone only makes it worse.

Everybody has some type of cross to bear, being fat is just more obvious, stop being haters and making judgments. I agree the study is a waste of time, but don't point fingers, that never helps.

Here's a headline for a similarly enlightening study: Water appears linked to drowning.

No #$%$ Sherlock.......Have been in chronic pain for 10 years due to near fatal vehicle crash. I'm 5' 2" and weigh 115 lbs. Can you even imagine how much more pain I would be in if I was toting an obese body around on these same screwed up nerves, joints, muscles and bones!

Geez. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize the two are linked. 1) A person in pain is less likely to exercise, causing weight gain. 2) A person in pain may take medications that cause weight gain. 3) An overweight person may be in pain due to being overweight just by the fact their body has to tote around the extra weight, causing joint problems.

End result: A person in pain may gain weight because of lack of activity and medication. An overweight person will probably be in pain because of the extra weight carried.

"There's a clear link between obesity and pain, suggests a new study that finds the heaviest people suffer the greatest discomfort."
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"We wanted to explore this relationship further by checking to see if it was due to painful diseases that cause reduced activity, which in turn causes increased weight," Joan..."
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"This finding suggests that obesity alone may cause pain..."

Duh, how much money was spent on this research?

There are many reasons for being overweight/obese. You don't walk in these folks shoes, have a little mercy. Once a person reaches a certain point of obesity, it becomes much harder to lose the weight, and it becomes a kind of trap. And if there are mobility problems, that will complicate the situation further. Having said that, people need to practice more restraint about what goes in their mouth, income aside, and try to anticipate the future if they don't. I seldom see a fat kid WITHOUT an equally fat parent at their side.
These folks will become ill early, die earlier, be less productive in general, consume much health care (if available), and there are many reasons to try to change this situation.

Regarding "fibromyalgia," I believe it and "Chronic Fatigue", MS, ALS, etc., and other similar diseases without a known infectious agent may someday be treated differently if an infectious agent is discovered. Apparently there is a study out there showing a significant percentage of those with Parkinson's Disease are also infected with the Lyme Disease organism, "Borrelia Burgdorferi," with which there is a serious medical controversy. Who knows which other diseases may be someday attributed to a known organism which could hopefully be treated.

Gee, you don't suppose it HURTS the joints and such to carry that much weight, do you? C'mon researchers, dig a little.

Yeah just moving with aged arthritis is a pain.

My weight gain began after a car accident. I went from doctor to doctor to doctor no one would help me with my pain. I went from working out 4 to 6 days a week and bike riding and walking on the beach to lying in bed in misery. The only thing the doctors would do for me was give me steroids. Every thirty days for years I got an injection. These injections ruined my health. Yes, I gained a boatload of weight the steroids made me manic and hungry. I gained 150lbs. the first year. I even went through a six month period of eating 800 calories a day and still I continued to blow up. No one addressed the cause of my pain or would just give me muscle relaxers. Now, I have deteriorating bones. Auto-immune issues and pain pain pain. I'd give anything to be able to work out like I used to. Doctors do not care about their patients like the did in the past. They don't want to fix the problems they just want to give you pills or injections to mask the symptoms. No one every told me what all those injections were doing to my body and now I can't reverse the damage already done. My metabolism, auto-immune system, and my body are ruined. I know many will criticize me and berate me but the problem with obesity in this country is more than about food and no one as usual wants to address it. And no the accident wasn't my fault.

So find a way to allow those of us with medical conditions which PREDATED the pain and took away our ability to move freely to cure the medical conditions...and I assure you some of us would immediately start losing weight.

I loved to play soccer, go for bike rides, roller and ice skate etc. until arthritis screwed me up at age 10. If I didn't have to stand for 8 hours straight at my job each day - until the swelling and pain brings me near tears - I would be able to at least go for walks after work. I WANT to be active again. I love activity-oriented exercise.

The original pain is in many cases caused by the body's inflammation to GM foods, MSG, and all the chemicals that are in foods. These chemicals also shut down hormone secretion and thyroid function, thus making weight gain inevitable. You wonder why arthritis, fibromyalgia, migraines, obesity, and everything else is becoming epidemic.. It's the food. It's the body's imbalances. It's the hormonal imbalances. When consumers and doctors wake up, this will cease to be an issue for most people. Not only that, but once the inflammation goes down, mineral ratios are corrected, and hormones are balanced.. lol.. the body takes care of weight loss on its own (to the tune of 3-4 pounds a week). It isn't rocket science, it's Mother Nature!!!

What about those who weren't obese to begin with? But became extremely overweight due to meds given to treat their conditions? These people started out with one disease, and usually ended up with several others due to side effects, not the least of which is obesity.

Then, for some strange reason the doctors can't seem to see past the weight to help the initial cause of pain. "Just lose the weight, it'll be a beginning." My favorite was,

" it didn't take to a few months to get this big, why do you expect it to come off so quickly?"

My answer, because after my treatment and the 67 pounds I gained in three weeks, while throwing up everyday, unable to keep even water down, you kept telling me it was water weight and that it would go away. I knew I was in trouble, most especially the day my hair fell out (yes, all at once when I washed out the soap) and you (the doctor) told me to STOP drinking water.

Big red flag. I would think the extreme weight gain would have been the first clue. What doctor tells you to stop drinking water?

But the pain continues worst than before. And the medicine cut off my thyroid. Which they finally figured out after a thousand blood tests. And guess what? No treatment either. I can go without eating for months and won't lose an ounce. Which is easy, 'cause I still throw up everyday when I try to eat.

Every "fat" person you see isn't eating themselves into an early grave. Doctors could be pushing them. Or should I say, "practicing medicine" on them into an early grave.

Don't you dare judge me. You do't know what I've been through.

They needed a study for this? when you hurt, you cant move, which leads to overweight, which leads to more pain.... duh.

Fact: When an obese person's knees hurt and crunch inside, folks will say "go for a walk and exercise. Loose weight and you won't hurt anymore". When a skinny person's knees hurt and crunch inside, folks will say, wow man you need to go to the doctor's and get that fixed, I'm sorry you are in so much pain.

Then there are those who's pain causes them to be overweight but they get thrown into the same category by friends and relatives as their weight being the problem not the pain is the cause.

And they drink diet soda which is laced with the poison Aspartame. Everyone should Google "Aspartame poisoning", it could save you a lot of wasted trips to your doctor, and a lot of pain.

Sucks the most for people whose pain led them to be obese because no one wants to treat pain, then the docs tell overweight people to lose weight to reduce pain.