MegSnow

We've finally got med requests (4 years down the line) yea! I'm very over weight, how strict are they on weight? I'm healthy with only an atrial fibulation that is controlled. I am on a Slimming World diet. I can't believe it's come to this. Gutted.

PMM

Hi


Weight will have no effect on your application.

nativenewyorker

Hi, I'm overweight with medical problems and I got in! I used to joke that I was too old for Australia, too fat for New Zealand so we had to choose Canada lol. Don't worry I'm sure you'll be fine.

UKcastaway

We are wanting to head out to BC but are a bit over weight....will it be a problem please?
and interested to hear how the arrhythmia is looked at in medicals please MegSnow.

Ontheroadoflife

If you are overweight in Canada you will fit right in.....

Dorothy

Yeah, 'cause there aren't any fat Brits.

Dorothy

The answers don't change with your username. If you're Meg Snow then you started this thread.

SchnookoLoly

First, please try not to bump old threads, this one is almost a year old!

Second, medical inadmissibility simply depends on how much you ate going to cost the health care system. If it's more than about $6k/year then you can be rejected. How much does it cost to treat arrhythmia?

Zoe Bell

bit of an unfortunate typo there

SchnookoLoly

HAHAHAHA whoopsies!!! Responded from my phone this morning and clearly didn't proofread!!!

MegSnow

Obviously it didn't bother them as we now have PR and living in Calgary! Husband had to have up to date reports from his cardiologist who confirmed he had no damage to his heart (he had a heart attack 4 years ago and is on meds to keep his cholesterol and blood pressure low, bisoprolol and aspirin) and I have an atrial fibrillation and take bisoprolol. I had to provide an up to date report from my cardiologist which luckily I had as i was signed off from cardiology 5 months before. Not sure how much the meds cost as we haven't had to renew the prescription yet.

scilly

medications will cost you a lot more than in the UK, I think

Aspirin is not on prescription, so far as I know .............. certainly we have never been prescribed, it's an over the counter drug



I'm on medication for cholestrol and high blood pressure ............. but I have never been prescribed bisopropol, so cannot say how much that costs you


I spend around $1000-1500 a year on prescriptions for those two ailments, plus about another $2000 for other medication

.................... thank heavens we have Extended Health Insurance or I would be paying the whole of that here in BC, instead of just the amount after $1000 deductible!

Tirytory

Medication is free in parts of the UK and subsidised in others.....yeah the nhs is rubbish isn't it??

UKcastaway

I am not MegSnow :-)
And yes I asked on an old thread because it was asking exactly what I wanted to ask.
Thank you MegSnow that is really great information about arrhythmia - it is all under control but I suppose anything about the "heart" and I suppose we panicked we might not get in :-)
I should have said I really cant remember what you pay for etc in the uk as we left there 8 years ago. We are coming from New Zealand with NZ citizenship :-)
Thanks again MegSnow so happy you made it and lets hope we are blessed as well :-)

scilly

tirytory

some things about the NHS are OK, especially the free prescriptions. Although they are being paid for somehow, probably out of taxes .................


but it seems not if you need to get into a hospital!


sorry ............. but I have two friends currently trying to get treatment, and the nhs is failing them miserably



but then, I have no complaints about the health system here ........ the whole family, whether here in BC or in NS, has received timely treatment as needed.

I think 6 weeks from suspicious mammogram to diagnosis of breast cancer to lumpectomy to mastectomy is pretty good going, don't you?!