Another frustrating round of "Hey I can't tell you what to do or how to cope with this. You're still high risk, lose another 25% of your body mass first unless you're too much of a wimp to handle the pain. How much risk is additional risk? No one's ever done a study or research to show, because there's really no point. I'm not a cardiologist so I can't say one way or another if your chest pains are related or not. So yeah bye, feel free to call and schedule a surgery if you pussy out and can't handle it anymore." And because I am a surgery-fearing wimp I allowed him to talk me down from considering surgery. Again. Basically all I got out of it was a reminder to start actually *exercising* on top of the diet so I can shed the problematic pounds. Oh, and some condescending remarks about how the computer is a 'complete waste of time'.

Feeling mostly better right now, so after calling my family doctor and them saying "hey man you're technically on medicaid so you're stuck with this doctor you know nothing about and have never been to and who gave you the phone run-around last time you tried to schedule an appointment with them" but hey at least I presumably definitely have the right number to call if I decide to get a second opinion.