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Re: posting - Only one response last time :-(From: J (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:44:02 -0500 (CDT)
in response to #3: you still had hirsutism, absent menses, etc. at a normal weight because you have PCOS. While weight gain is a symptom of PCOS, it is not a defining characteristic which means one can have symptoms of PCOS such as missing menses and hirsutism without having excess weight. Also, being overweight is not a prerequisite for having IR. There are type II diabetics who are IR and not overweight just like there are women with PCOS who are IR and not overweight. You have IR if you have type II diabetes or PCOS, but you need not be overweight to be IR; although most people who are IR are overwieght are IR. In response to #2: low-carbing means low-carbing. Perhaps you'll have to juggle carbs. to fit something such as rice into your diet. I would suggest trying wild rice instead of processed rice because it has less of an effect on blood sugar. But to do a low carb diet such as Atkins would require eliminating such a food choices until desired weight is achieved and then maintaining this loss by slowly introducing carbs. into the diet. Perhaps at this time you could then see how much of foods such as rice you can tolerate. I would suggest Atkins if you hate counting carbs. I stick to the minimal to no carb. foods. Period. This way I don't have to count. I am not familiar with any of the other low carb. diets. So I would ask others for advice on them, but for me Atkins seemed like the easiest to follow and stick with. Also, since I started low-carbing. and found out I had an underactive thyroid and subsequently took a drug for that, my scalp hair loss ceased. I would recommend going to a endocrinologist (only endos can perform it) and having TRH thyroid test performed in addition to the common TSH test to eliminate the possibility of an underactive thyroid causing the hairloss and especially if you are having other symtpoms such as excessive tiredness, lethargy, sensitivity to cold and/or hot such as cold hands and/or feet, poor concentration, brittle nails, etc. If you do have an underactive thyroid I would recommend being treated with Armour thyroid instead of Synthroid. I was on Synthroid for over 6 months and only got worse not better. But after three weeks of being on Armour my hair stopped falling out and I got my energy back. Further, Armour is a more natural form of thyroid which comes from pig thyroid and contains T3 and T4. Synthroid is synthetic and contains on T4. Doctors normally prescribe Synthroid because they think it is superior to Armour and that Armour is does not come in standardized doses. However, I have only encountered positive things from Armour while Synthroid brought me no relief. Soory this was so long, take care and I hope you find some relief!
At Fri, 29 Sep 2000, JN wrote:
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