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most symptoms under control and still not happy...long From: Alicia (anonymous@obgyn.net) Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:25:25 -0500 (CDT) Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Celeste: "Re: fed up with medication confusion :(" Previous message: dsf: "Re: Met and CRAMPS!!!!!!" Next in thread: Celeste: "Re: most symptoms under control and still not happy...long" Reply: Celeste: "Re: most symptoms under control and still not happy...long" Reply: Melanie: "Re: most symptoms under control and still not happy...long" Reply: Alicia: "Re: most symptoms under control and still not happy...long" Just wondering if anyone else is at the same place I am... I was officially diagnosed with PCOS 3 years ago. After that, armed with info from this board and others, I lost 30lbs on a modified low-carb diet, which I now maintain. Took spironolactone which cleared up severe acne. Hair loss has stopped, and to look at me you would never know I lost any hair. Vaniqa, bcp and spironolactone has pretty much taken care of the excess hair. Bcp has me on a regulated cycle. So it would seem as though I am perfectly normal. No one who saw me on the street would think anything other than I am a fit, healthy, normal woman. But sometimes it feels like a sham. I know that I am just a few carb-binges away from gaining 30lbs again. I feel like I have to watch everything I do (especially socially, like going out for a drink or dessert with girlfriends) so carefully. It is exhausting. I feel like I have to workout 3+ times a week or suddenly I won't fit in to any of my clothes. A co-worker just came by an asked me if I'd like to go downstairs where there is free coffee and goodies. Coffee would completely upset my system and carb loaded pastries in the middle of the day would make me sleepy, irratible and bloated and put me up 2 lbs tomorrow morning. I mean, who can deal with this 24 hours a day? Rather than go downstairs and socialize, I resent the coffee and pastries and stay in my office. Those NORMAL people can enjoy, I can't. It's frustrating. I guess I should just be grateful that I have most of my syptoms under control, but at what price considering quality of life? Maybe I am overreacting, but every now and then I get so sick of being so affected by everything. I live such a super-healthy lifestyle just to be sub-normal. How fair is that? Next message: Celeste: "Re: fed up with medication confusion :(" Previous message: dsf: "Re: Met and CRAMPS!!!!!!" Next in thread: Celeste: "Re: most symptoms under control and still not happy...long" Reply: Celeste: "Re: most symptoms under control and still not happy...long" Reply: Melanie: "Re: most symptoms under control and still not happy...long" Reply: Alicia: "Re: most symptoms under control and still not happy...long"

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