THE THOMSONS

Hi everyone,
Has anyone out there had any problems,issues or concerns from the medical examination RE:BMI weight charts married together with a borderline blood pressure reading for that particular age.Is something like this a cause for concern.

Cheers
James

Anne4Terry

I too want to know about BMI and weight oooo that's a guilty clue

Steve2438

Hi as you live in surrey,you might go to gatwick park for your meds we have just had ours there and they were great..
try here for your BMI
http://www.bdaweightwise.com/bda/lose_bmi.aspx

Anne4Terry

Thanks for the advice. How far in advance did you have to book for your meds at Gatwick park, were they very busy, how much did they cost? What do they do? It is just me, hubby and 12 year old son.

TheRossers

see the following thread http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...&highlight=Fat )
Hope this helps

bridiej

Hi Anne

We've just booked our meds at Gatwick for end June.

When I spoke to them they said because it's just me and my husband they could fit us in within 10 days, cost £200 each incl. x-rays.

Joanne

We've got our medicals/xrays booked for 3 June and Im really, really worried to death about them. Was stressing not having received the request for them, so went ahead and booked them without it, now stressing even more about the damn things. Perhaps I should have waited and shift a few more pounds! Although a few stone in reality is whats needed :scared:

I cant be the only lardy applying!!! Can I??????

Jo

Shazrazmataz

Hi Jo,

I worried for weeks about my meds, had many sleepless nights & went on a healthy eating plan 3 weeks before.

Dont know why I stressed so much as the meds were a doddle I'm a little overweight but you should of seen one lady in the waiting room :scared: I'm sure she'd need at least 3 seats on the plane !

Dont worry, what they look for is for people who have had TB or people who would drain the health resource in Oz.

Good luck

Rogue Trader

No, you're definitely not the only one - we seem to be in the majority.

Reading that they're generally booking 3-4 weeks in advance, we rang to book ours last Friday... the plan was to crash-diet for the 3-4 weeks and get my borderline BMI down into the acceptable region. However, they said that just before we called they'd had a cancellation and could book us in on Thursday...!!! [hands up who cancelled with Dr Million in Manchester...]

So... 5 days of crash diet and exercise :scared: in the run up to the meds.

All the best,
RT.

Shazrazmataz

LOL... things never go to plan

sme

Hey that was me

Seriously though I understand that being more than a tad overweight alone doesn't preclude you from obtaining your visa, if you have health problems because of your weight ie. high BP, bad back, painful joints, diabetes the they may ask for additional reports.

Gillian

Rabc

High BMI? Worry not, it's less than 40.6 at the medicals then you have nothing to worry about. Trust me I know. Check out my trials and tribulations in the "medicals Panic" thread!

Rogue Trader

Cheers Rabc... already been there, done that...

You were a great reassurance to me with all that you posted on there. Read it last week. You suffered for all us well-builts... I raise my glass to you..!!

Cheers,
RT.