Now that's just downright silly. I can't imagine what he thinks that connection is. If he's lumping nasal congestion in with anything that causes difficulty breathing/shortness of breath, he's really pushing the envelope.
As many overweight people can attest, American doctors will
always make anything that's wrong with you about your weight so that they don't have to do anything and because it's an ideological "thing" and make no effort to find out what really might be wrong. And even if something else really
is wrong, they'll bring it back to your weight
anyway out of that uniquely American middle-class tendency to believe things that are manifestly untrue to an extent that can become utterly ridiculous. I'll bet dollars to donuts more than a few overweight forum-readers can back me up on this one.
This is especially gauling for us Type 2s, because if you've had issues with your weight your entire life, insulin-resistance has an unfortunate and heartbreaking way of putting a floor underneath how much weight you are able to lose. You would think that somebody who has been to medical school would
know this, for pity's sake! Oh, and learning that doctors will
brazenly lie to your face about side-effects of medications in the interest of pouring more and more and more pills down your throat was nice, too.
Actually, it's okay. I am seriously at the point in my life where I
prefer to be bitter and cynical, as unbecoming as that may be. So finding out that people such as doctors who present themselves as educated experts to be trusted are as full of it as anybody, is really just par for the course.
