Re: Ketosis and PCOS
From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi Sámuel?= (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 22 Apr 2001 05:19:58 +0100 (MET DST)
Hi again Dana,
Why do you want to be in ketosis? Ketosis is losing the acid/base balance of your body and may turn dangerous. In fact one of the unwanted side-effects of metformin is lactoacidosis.
Sam
> Hi everyone,
>
> Like a lot of you I am following the atkins diet and have been for the
> past 6mths, it has brought back my cycle, but unfortunately has not got
> rid of my stubborn fat cells!!!
>
> For the past month I have been testing my urine with ketostix to make
> sure I'm in ketosis. I can go from negative to positive in a matter of
> hours. But most frustrating of all, for the past week or so I am
> continually showing up as negative. Does anyone know whether PCOS stops
> our bodies from going into ketosis??
>
> Thanks
> Dana
> :-)
>
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