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Re: nowhere else to go, sorry
From: Molly (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 31 Jul 2000 06:30:42 -0700
Hi Josephine,
Please don't despair. My daughter is 17 and has had problems with PCOS
but is stable right now. We have also researched and read. We finally think
we have a combination of medications for her. What are you taking? Please
feel free to email us privately. Also check out the PCOTeen website at
http://www.pcoteen.org. You will find others who understand!
Take care!
Molly
-----Original Message-----
From: Josephine <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Date: Monday, July 31, 2000 5:40 AM
Subject: nowhere else to go, sorry
>ever since i was a little kid i was different. it's always been scary
>but something i thought i'd grow out of in due time. then around 4
>months ago it was finally explained to me that i had PCOS. at first
>this didn't faze me at all, i take the medicine i've been perscribed and
>smile and live it out. but now recently giving my boyfriend a reson for
>my eratic mood swings and bouts of depression every month at the same
>time (period related but also said to be related to the medications
>adjustment of my hormone levels) and discussing it with him and having
>him actually go out and research it, lead to me reading up about it too.
>I had only ever listened to what the docters would tell me and be
>satisfied, guess they never thought it neccesary to inform me that i was
>going to have to live with this for the rest of my life.
>I just turned 17 last month, i've been shaving since i was 15 and had
>facial and body hair noticeable, and thanks to my peers, made public
>ever since i started high school, i can't believe i've made it this far.
>i hate the idea of having to grow up and find that i can't have a family
>as easily as all my friends and that i have to go through so much pain
>just to have one kid and they might not make it. needing to have even
>more tests that nearly kill me, a test to discover if i had PCOS was
>given to me and i was allergic to the stuff they injected into i was
>lucky they missed my vain.
>i'm sorry if i'm sounding over dramtic and if i'm just repeating what
>everyone has heard before but i'm only just sitting here and realising
>that i have to spend the rest of my life with this.
>I feel ashamed to ask for support, but i don't know where else to turn
>anymore, i feel like i need to speak with people who actuallly
>understand it all and know what it's all about. i don't know how to
>cope.
>
>--
>Josephine
>Melbourne, Australia
>
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