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Re: energy & weightFrom: liz (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon, 29 May 2000 19:40:30 -0500 (CDT)
At Mon, 29 May 2000, Barbara wrote: > >Liz: >Yes, having no energy can definately be a problem with PCOS. >In order to know if you have PCOS, you will need to see a doctor, and to >get Met you will have to be diagnosed with PCOS. Some women have had >good luck with their GYN's some with Endocrinologists. If you do go to >the doctor, make sure you make a detailed list of your symptoms and >concerns and mention that you had read an article on PCOS and that since >you have so many of the symptoms you'd like to start there. If it is >not PCOS, then you can take it from there. >I hope you get help, it is awful to feel tired all the time. >Take care, let us know how things go. >At Sat, 27 May 2000, liz wrote: >> >>i have just recently read an article on pcos and said "wow - this is >>what has been wrong with me" but in reading some of the messages i see >>that having no energy can also be common?? is this so, because that is a >>huge part of my problem (sometimes i sleep 12-14-16 hours and still i'm >>tired) i have also gained such a huge amount of weight 90lbs. will >>met... medication really help with my weight & energy?? also with the >>awefull cravings, dizziness, shakes, so hungry i'm naucious (sp) but >>can't eat unless it's breadlike & sweet? i took a drug called >>"prometruim" for over a year to get my period regulated - for me it >>never stopped and got extremely heavy and very very clotty. i have >>every symptom - do you think met... could help??? i have had my >>children and don't want any more i just need my life back. any other >>suggestions. thanks so much. > >-- >Barbara >hi, thank you for responding, i have made an appt. for 10 days from now. i live in a pretty isolated town, i have bee n telling my dr. for the past 8 years something is wrong, and i have said all these symptoms, i have just been told it is all due to the weight gain, "just loose some weight and it will all be fine" BUT i cant loose the weight and the craving are like having the DT's shaking, sweating, dizzy, nausious, and no matter how hard i try the weight just doesn't come off. should i ask to see a doctor is one of the larger cities like toronto, or sudbury even, i think i am in the stone age here. what tests do i ask her to do to get me started? we don't have an endo... dr. here, we have one good ob/gyn, but i have been going to her with all the menstrual problems and telling her of all the other things that are wrong and she never even blinked an eye that it could be anything but the weight.please help me, i feel like my life is just slipping/sleeping away these days, thanks!
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