Wasn't fat enough to be treated on the NHS
postcode lottery and all that. Still the best £6500 I've ever spent though.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:06, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Ahh, yes I dislike that actual measure.
It encourages people to become more unhealthy and risk further complications so they can get treatment. NICE are apparently "looking at it" but who knows.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:08, Reply)

Yes, I could have put on a stone and risked my health further, just to meet the criteria
but there's still no guarantee I would have been treated, and there's waiting times etc etc to consider. I pre-arranged the loan, had the consultation and had the surgery the week after; I knew if I waited and thought about it I'd chicken out of it.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:10, Reply)

Hopefully as techniques get developed and more surgeons get experience
costs will go down and then the criteria get loosened.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:14, Reply)

Possibly
the number of ops on the NHS has quintupled over the last three years or something daft, a lot more people are doing them. But it's not the easy fix you think it might be, it's still bloody hard work and a lot of people who have it done don't realise that beforehand.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:16, Reply)

That's true, done well it's a net saving to the nhs due to the reduced risk of long term conditions.
But without the consultaions information and follow up it's totally useless.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:21, Reply)

It does sound hard work
it wouldn't work for me I don't think
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:31, Reply)

Having paid for it myself
and virtually bankrupting myself over the course of five years to pay the money back, there was no fucking way - NO fucking way - that it wasn't going to work. I'm more paranoid now about my weight than I ever was when I was fat.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:34, Reply)

That's a fairly compelling reason :)

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 15:05, Reply)

Thank fuck for that.

( girlinthehole, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:16, Reply)

You're nowhere near fat enough, missy.

(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:18, Reply)

I am for someone 5ft.
I just need to crouch down when the surgeon measures my height.
( girlinthehole, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:20, Reply)

Pfft!
I think he'll spot that, what with him being medically trained and all.
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:21, Reply)

Your teeth will be out soon enough, the weight will drop off

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:22, Reply)

I can still suck the filling from inside a pie Rory.

( girlinthehole, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:23, Reply)

You can always do what that 'fattest kid in the world' did
and stick your mega-sized McDonalds meal in a blender and eat it as fat soup. *shudders*
(berk, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:27, Reply)

Why is going down on a old woman like eating a cheap pie?
You've got to break through the crust and the jelly before you can get to the meat.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 14:32, Reply)