PCOS-DIET Messages for September, 2001: Re: Is it worth it?

Re: Is it worth it?

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
10 Sep 2001 10:15:12 -0700

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On Fri, 07 September 2001, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:

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> But why, exactly, am I trying to lengthen my life? If someone told me
> that I would die at 35, but I would love every minute of it, I would be
> content with that lot. Why live until 60, 70, 80 if all you have to
> look forward to is a regamine of daily vitamins and pills, coupled with
> some food that you would rather not eat, while your body collapes in on
> itself? Why keep living if you get no joy from it, with the knowledge
> that your body is killing itself more interestingly than anyone elses?
<snip> Are you really loving every minute of your life right now? What is interesting about having PCOS? Who says that you will die happy, anyway? Who says you will live happy until one day you drop dead? Have you even stopped to consider the pain your death will have on others?

Your question sounds like what my alcoholic father used to say when asked why he didn't quit drinking (he died a very painful death of cirrhosis of the liver complicated by paraplegia which he got from a drunken fall down the stairs).

He'd say "I'd rather die happy than live miserably" but in reality, the alcohol was making him a depressed, angry man incapable of truly enjoying life, or having a happy marriage or family.

If you could see the future, and could see that you'd get diabetes at 40, have your feet amputated at 45 (due to complications from diabetes), and live the rest of your life slowly dying, would you really think it was worth not having to monitor your diet and exercise when you were younger? This is a realistic scenario, as anyone on this list who ended up with diabetes can tell you.

My brother, who didn't watch his diet, has diabetes, and has lost all feeling in his feet. I worry every day that he will lose them.

<snip> I > mean, what other disorder reduces heart elasticity, increases LDL
> levels, increases risk of cancer, depression, whatever?
>

The modern diet, for one thing -- it causes these same problems in many people. Diabetes, for another. Why do you think they advertise all those cholesterol lowering medications? We're not the only ones with problems. There are tons of people out there with heart disease, cancer, and other problems that reduce their *quality* as well as quantity of life.

> I'm making the decision. No pills. No food changes. No lifestyle
> changes. I will die early. I will die happy.
>

I can't imagine that not taking pills could make you a happier person. I think you are feeling self-destructive, perhaps because you are depressed. I say this because I was depressed (probably another side-effect of PCOS) and was extremely self-destructive, drinking and smoking to the extreme and not taking care of myself.

I now will have asthma for the rest of my life, thanks to that smoking, and can never drink again without fearing a death like my father's (cirrhosis of the liver causes you to essentially drown in your own blood, because your insides dissolve).

It took counseling and Prozac for me to get out of that downward cycle, and now I will do anything to increase my health.

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