PCOS Messages for September, 2000: Re: ; <Met and Preg test

Re: ; <Met and Preg test

From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:45:58 -0500 (CDT)

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I agree as well. I am very thankful to have this site. Itis a wealth of useful information, but I find that since finding it a few months back, I must curb my urge to think of myself as a victim. I've known about my PCOS for 12 years and I knew about many of the awful effects I could expect to get, but my PCOS was merely a minor component of who I was. When I get too wrapped up in posts here, I find myself fighting the urge to blame everything in my life on the PCOS. For me, that's a cop-out.

I'll go one step farther and risk angering many here... I only speak from my personal situation. I'm fat. I made me fat. Not the PCOS. I've known since I was a little girl that I was thinner and happier when I didn't eat candy and moved more. My personal laziness made me a couch potato and gluttonly made me eat things I knew where especially bad for me. I didn't know about the effects of carbs on PCOS at 12... but I knew that some people could eat crap and not gain weight, but I wasn't one of them. Yes, the PCOS is to blame. But I must take personal responsibility - diet and exercise is the key. It sucks, but it's the truth. In a fair world I should be able to suck down the same milk shake my husband does and not gain weight. That ain't the way things are. I met a 16 year old boy with Down Syndrome the other day who's so incredibly excited that he'll be able to drive soon. He doesn't listen when everyone tells him that because of the DS, he'll never be allowed to get a driver's license. That ain't fair either.

I'm the lucky one. I can control my condition. That boy can exercise and diet til his bones stick out, and he still ain't going to be able to shake the effects of Down Syndrome. He'll never be able to have his dream of driving a car.

I made a personal pledge to myself this weekend to be thankful for all the information I now have to help me control my PCOS, but I will not allow myself one minute of feeling I have no control over myself. As far as the PCOS is concerned, I'll always have it but I'll be damned if I'm going to let it have me.

At Mon, 11 Sep 2000, anonymous wrote: >
>Glad someone agrees Stacey - the reason I "unsubscribed" the last time
>is that I got awfully tired of hearing about how the cramp in someone's
>left big toe was caused by PCO or that hearing loss could be a symptom!
>That's sounds awful but it really is annoying. I also get tired of
>hearing about people calling themselves very ill with PCO because I
>don't think that it's really the sort of condition which causes illness
>per say, but rather more of a group of undesirable symptoms which make
>life a little more challanging (I do not include infertility here
>because that's a whole other topic). I think you have to get some
>persecptive here - there are a million other diseases/conditions which
>make PCO pale to almost oblivion. Obviously it isn't great but it isn't
>the worst either - far from it.
>
>I guess I just don't like it when I hear someone defining themselves by
>having PCO - it sounds like a victim complex - I just can't stand that.
>I guess in my line of work, I see such terrible disabilities and illness
>that this condition sometimes seems pretty tame. This is not to
>minimize the symtpoms...more just trying to put them in perspective.
>
>That's my way of thinking,
>
>Holli.

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