Re: More on the MY PCOS is gone post!
From: Kristen (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 15 Aug 2000 19:04:19 GMT
What is everyone getting so nutty about. We all are allowed to have
different opinions. If we all thought the same it would be pointless for us
to come here to share ideas with each other. I don't think the person who
originally wrote this post meant that her pcos was gone or cured at all. I
personally think she meant that her pcos symptoms were gone, which is very
possible!!
>From: anonymous@obgyn.net
>Reply-To: anonymous@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>Subject: Re: More on the MY PCOS is gone post!
>Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 18:24:38 -0500
>
>In a message dated 08/14/2000 7:58:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>anonymous@obgyn.net writes:
>
><< It is, however, a known
> fact that losing weight is key to controlling PCO. What are you getting
> so upset about? We are all in the same boat here.. >>
>
>Maybe because that is such a pat little answer. Just lose the weight and
>the
>PCOS will get better. Who among us has not been literally hammered with
>that
>statement? But the question is HOW to lose that weight when no approach
>works?
>
>Lowcarb is not a miracle cure, the drugs are not a miracle cure, although
>it
>works for _some_ people with PCOS, it does not work for others. We need
>to
>remember that if a treatment option does not work for a particular person
>it
>is through NO fault of their own.
>
>Wheras weight loss is possible for some people through certain methods,
>there
>are other people who are waiting for their answer to this syndrome. There
>is
>so little known about it that it is absurd to make a statement across the
>board about weight and severity of PCOS. If so, then how is it possible
>for
>many women to lose weight and not have any improvement in their PCOS
>condition? And why do average weight and even underweight women develop
>PCOS? Jut because it happens to be a correlation for a certain percentage
>of
>PCOS patients, does not make it valid across the board.
>
>Not too many years ago it was thought that if you just removed the ovaries
>the PCOS would go away. We now know that to be inaccurate. There is not
>enough hard evidence to make a statement like that. Has a study been done
>to
>show that a statistically significant number of diagnosed PCOS patients
>experienced measureable improvement from weight loss alone? Has there been
>comparisons of women on other treatment options? A control group? Normal
>weighted women who lost weight? Etc.....
>
>These are great theories, but we must be careful when we speak in theories.
>Really, has there been a legitimate empirical study done using the
>scientific
>method to prove this theory that weight loss is key? Has that study been
>duplicated with supporting results?
>
>Theories can give false hopes and dash hopes.
>
>Right now I don't think medical science knows enough about PCOS to make
>many
>really hard statements of absolute fact.
>
>I have gone around and around with doctors about it. "Lose the weight you
>will get better" "How do I lose the weight, I have tried everything" "Try
>this new diet, it is supposed to be the miracle cure" "Tried it had no
>success, what else can I do?" "I don't know you have to lose the weight".
>SLAM, door closed.
>
>We deserve better than this.
>
>Tracy
>
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