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At a loss..From: Kristie (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:52:13 -0600 (CST)
I'm new to this so bear with me. For the past 9 to 10 years I have had irregluar periods. Not a lack of them, just irregular. Irregular in frequency and in nature. In fact, most of the time I have had periods about every two weeks. I have been on the pill most of that time trying to regulate them with no success. I slowly started gaining weight until I reached 163 pounds(normal for me had always been 125). I became pregnant with twins but one of them did not survive. My doctor said he or she resorbed. That was the begining of a terrible pregnancy experience. After giving birth I gained another 20+ pounds and retained some things that I thought were left over from pregnancy, such as ACNE!, ACNE!, ACNE!, excess facial hair, and severe mood swings which prompted my doctor to put me back on the pill. The pill helped the mood swings but not the acne, hair, or irregular periods which had started up again. I've also been excessivly tired. I told my Ob/Gyn doc that I needed to loose weight and he put me on Fastin for two months which helped me to loose 10 pounds. I gained it back. I eventually went on a protein diet and lost about 17 pounds. I couldn't take the protein diet anymore so I got off it, plus I crave carbs to badly. Then about one year ago this month I gained 25 pounds in a little less than five weeks! I felt like my body was out of control. I knew that I couldn't have increased my caloric intake to account for that kind of weight gain in so short a time. In July of last year I joined the YMCA, stoked and ready to loose that weight. I worked out in the pool doing a class called "Deep Water Challenge" which is basically treading water with a flotation belt on doing strength training and aerobic moves in the water. I did this three mornings a week for one full hour for a six week session. I did not loose one single ounce. The next session, I took the belt off and worked harder with my RPE(rate of perceived exertion) always around 9 of 10 and my heart rate at 190 to 200. I was working hard but I still did not loose any weight. (I was also weight lifting twice a week and did not increase my calories.) My energy didn't even increase as it is supposed to when you exercise regularly. Needless to say, I felt very frustrated. Then, I saw in a magazine something about stubborn weight gain, acne, facial hair and FATIGUE...called PCOS. I believed I might have this so I made an appt with my doc and he said I might have it so he ran some blood work which all came back normal but he still made a clinical diagnosis of PCOS. They only thing he told me to do was get back on the pill, which I had stopped because I wanted to get pregnant again, or to loose the weight to break the cycle. HA! HA! That was around November and this is March and I'm still in the same spot. I finally convinced my primary care doc that I needed help loosing weight-which at first he tried to get me to eat more protein and less carbs, no thanks. Because he had surgery, I was working through the nurse practioner and when I told her I had been clinically diagnosed with PCOS she told me that no weight loss pill would help and she put me on Glucophage, which I just started taking yesterday. I'm hoping that it will help me because I feel helpless. I even feel frustrated because I don't fit the profile like most women with it and I have symptoms but my blood tests including sugar and testosterone still come back normal. Sometimes I think I'm going nuts and I feel like just giving up but I'm afraid my health will suffer in the long run and besides, I can't stand the way I look and feel. I already suffer from chronic depression, anxiety, and OCD and this just makes the whole thing worse. Has anyone else had conflicting test results and symptoms? Has anyone had any success treating their acne? I told my mother that this, whatever it is, may run in our family because she and her mother and six sisters have all had "female problems" and hysterectomies. I feel like no one understands because I don't understand it. My four year old thinks I'm fat and says I have a big butt and he came up with that on his own. I feel ugly and hopeless. Thanks for being patient...I know it was long.
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