Wow, I just wanted to chirp in with some thoughts:
--I'm sorry this fucked with your head. It's a downer, for sure, to get turned down for things weight-related. The only way I was able to get health insurance was to lie about my weight (by 80 lb). I also have to make sure that no practitioners record my weight, or I'll lose that coverage (coverage that I'm paying for). This is a problem.
--Studies are specific. Drug studies especially need to start studying fat people correctly. This also means that studies have to be really accurate about what people's size/weight are, since different body sizes absorb and respond to drugs differently (and not all drugs work correctly by just scaling up doses by formula). Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that studies are giving good representation to real body sizes, not by a long shot. *But* I think it is really important to be accurate about indicators like age and weight/size in studies. So, while it felt like a discriminatory blow (esp. in the wallet), it's really not performance oriented or about being pretty and perfect. It's about following a scientific methodology for accurate results. I hope a sleep study geared toward your size opens up near you, and soon. There are other sleep studies elsewhere specific to The Obese (which apparently Tom Cruise is! who knew?).
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Date: 2009-02-04 08:39 pm (UTC)--I'm sorry this fucked with your head. It's a downer, for sure, to get turned down for things weight-related. The only way I was able to get health insurance was to lie about my weight (by 80 lb). I also have to make sure that no practitioners record my weight, or I'll lose that coverage (coverage that I'm paying for). This is a problem.
--Studies are specific. Drug studies especially need to start studying fat people correctly. This also means that studies have to be really accurate about what people's size/weight are, since different body sizes absorb and respond to drugs differently (and not all drugs work correctly by just scaling up doses by formula). Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that studies are giving good representation to real body sizes, not by a long shot. *But* I think it is really important to be accurate about indicators like age and weight/size in studies. So, while it felt like a discriminatory blow (esp. in the wallet), it's really not performance oriented or about being pretty and perfect. It's about following a scientific methodology for accurate results. I hope a sleep study geared toward your size opens up near you, and soon. There are other sleep studies elsewhere specific to The Obese (which apparently Tom Cruise is! who knew?).
Keep your chins up! xoxo