Re: help
From: Claire (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:50:54 -0600 (CST)
Your right, I think I'll give my dr. a call and ask about it. Thanks.
Hey another question I have been feeling like I drank a pot of coffee. I
wonder if it's the met.?
At Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Sonnet wrote:
>
>I am not sure why you've been put on a diet involving so many carbs???
>That seems really weird with this disease. I know many of us were put
>on typical low fat, high carb diets before and we mostly gained weight
>on them. Lots of carbs would, I believe, increase your insulin levels
>and so make your symptoms (including weight gain) worse. Definitely ask
>your doctor what her reasoning was for giving you this diet and don't
>let her tell you that the carbs are there for controlling hypoglycemia
>and controlling a prediabetic condition etc. (I have heard all this
>before!) You're NOT a diabetic, you have PCOS, and need to stabilize
>your insulin production. Right???
>
>At Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Claire wrote:
>>
>>After about a 100 visits to Drs. I finally found out that I have PCOS
>>and am not crazy.
>>
>>I went from a size 8 to a 16 in about a year. The PCOS has caused
>>several other problems for me heavy cycles, acne and reactive
>>hypoglyecia has anyone else had this problem (low blood sugar)?
>>
>>I was placed on 1000mg of met. and 1500 calories a day 48% carbs. I am
>>really unsure about eatting so many carbs. Has anyone else tried
>>loosing weight eatting so many carbs? The last thing I want to do is
>>gain more weight?
>
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