PCOS Messages for March, 2001: Re: PCOS, eating disorders, & diet coke & liver function

Re: PCOS, eating disorders, & diet coke & liver function

From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:11:47 -0600 (CST)

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wow... too bad that don't put THAT on the diet coke can!!!

i wondered if my sky high 17-hyroxyprogesterone (adrenal origin) had something to do with my sky high diet coke consumption... but i didn't really want to admit that little vice to my doc. i was kind of afraid i'd be told to just stop drinking the diet coke, and not offered any other treatment... when i knew that couldn't be the sole cause of my problems as i had slight signs BEFORE beginning drinking so much diet coke... and i know lots of women who drink lots of diet coke and do not have PCOS.

my hope was to get the glucohphage... cut out the diet coke... and pray for more normal blood work in a few months.

i will be getting a repeat blood draw if/when my period shows up... i will have been diet coke free for well over a month by then. hopefully, the 17-hp will be more normal. (my other adrenal hormones were fine, oddly... semi-ruling out suspiscion of CAH... but the possibility is still there, and i will be checked for it if my 17-hp is still high.)

i just hope any damage the diet coke has done isn't irreversible. my body must be so happy these days not to have the stress of all that caffeine!!!!!

my suspiscions on the evils of diet coke are becomming more and more confirmed... and to think, i once believed drinking all that caffeine would speed up my metabolism and make me thinnner!!!!!!

At Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Teresa wrote: >
>My understanding is sugar stimulates the islands of Langerhans. In a
>woman with PCOS... the alkaloid caffeine (diet coke too) stimulates the
>adrenal cortex to produce more of its hormones which in turn induce the
>liver to break down glycogen into glucose via the islands of Langerhans.
>This puts even a further burden on the islands of Langerhans (which are
>overly sensitive to begin with). Bad news. This is why a cup of coffee
>"gives you a lift". Trouble is the islands of Langerhans can NOT
>distinguish between the effects of caffeine OR eating food (sugar). I
>guess the the body doesn't know or care WHERE the sugar has come from
>(the food that is being digested or from previously stored glycogen) It
>is still broken down by the body's reaction to caffeine. I know that
>when I've had too much coffee, or diet coke... I'm not just jittery or
>wide awake...I am headed straight for a hypogycemic fit. Caffeine is
>bad not to mention all the aspartame (who only knows WHAT that stuff
>does)!

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