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C MN's avatar

How timely. I wandered into a discussion among a bunch of women pursuing IVF on my conception forum just yesterday. IVF usually comes with BMI cutoffs. All of them griped how they hadn't lost anything with "diet and exercise", and all of them revealed they were taking weight-loss drugs (one of them without her doctor's knowledge) to get under the cut-off. These are all women who are attempting to get pregnant and who have had issues with fertility; somehow I can't imagine that playing with drugs to alter their size is going to help the situation. And yet here we are. They even shared that their nurses have said it "isn't a big deal, you just have to get under the number" for one weigh-in, and then can gain the weight back. It's just ludicrous.

There are a few states that have laws against size discrimination, aren't there? How do they handle medical issues?

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Anneli Kaethler's avatar

would appreciate info on transplant (kidney etc) BMI barriers, if not already planned in part 2

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