# Pear shape bodies with large upper arms **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 27, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pear-shape-bodies-with-large-upper-arms/947434 "2021-07-27T16:13:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pear-shape-bodies-with-large-upper-arms/947434/16 "2021-07-27T21:40:34Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > I saw 11% somewhere else, but that’s still a huge number. I’m guessing gets brushed off as obesity and they’re told to diet and exercise. If you look at photos of women with the disease, it’s such an odd body shape along with the texture of the skin and the pain, that you would think it would be more diagnosable. Not being a doc, I don’t know if other forms of obesity have the pain factor. Although my wife is petite, she has a really uncomfortable level of pain from blood pressure cuffs. I know a lot of women, my wife included, are hesitant to directly question their doctor as **Joey\_P** says. I wonder if it’s compounded by embarrassment when talking to doctors about weight. That’s a problem shared by a lot of men too. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pear-shape-bodies-with-large-upper-arms/947434)._