PCOS Messages for April, 2001: Re: Help! What to do next?

Re: Help! What to do next?

From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 30 Apr 2001 03:05:24 -0500 (CDT)

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Hi there Jackie!

Yes, yes I will be around on ICQ tomorrow, I should think! If not, send me mountains of irritating emails yelling at me! ;)

I can understand your frustration and I have to say as a start, the best thing to do is prepare yourself for a doctor not knowing about the connection to IR. I found this over and over. That, or they WILL mention the IR, and just tel you "Well extra fat tissue makes IR worse so lose some weight." This is horrible if you are not prepared to counter it! Bring in lots of literature - copies of medical journals articles and etc. Then you can put them in their face and give them a quick lesson on the physiology of PCOS!

A good resource for questions to ask your doctor is http://www.pcosupport.org/pcosinfo/questions.pdf, which can be accessed through the site http://www.pcosupport.org (it is in the beginner's kit.)

As to lwo carb diets, they work by reducing the amount of insulin your pancreas is pumping out. When you eat a sugary carbohydrate (or any carb, but especially something like say, choccy - my diet staple!) your blood sugar spikes up and your pancreas responds by pumping out the insulin. This causes many problems for us! So, keeping those carbs to a minimum helps us be healthier. For more info, look in the archives for a paper on Insulin Resistance written by Paula.

I'll be thinking happy Doctor thoughts for you! Best of Luck!

-- Sonnet

At Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Sunbeam wrote: > >To sonnet & anyone else who is reading this message, >I have recently landed an appointment with an apparently good Dr who is >well versed in PCOS, after being shunned from gynae to gynae for most of >my post-pubescent life, I want to get my PCOS treated. I am sick of the >gynaes just treating my menstrual problems with hormone pills and other >devices and not sorting out the whole problem. I honestly believe if I >could just lose some weight with this thing, it would help my symptoms, >as my problems were far worse before I plonked on a heap of weight after >I had my son in 1998. I am in terested in trying the low-carb diets and >want to have all the right tests done aswell, but I am unsure of how or >what to ask for, I want to know IR and all that sort of thing as all >I've ever had done is hormone tests and the laparoscopy/ultrasound/blood >tests to confirm PCOS. I'll get straight to the point...Can anybody >tell me a basic list of the tests I should ask for and how the low-carb >diet works, so I'm a bit more "informed" before my appointment (June >12th) Thanks >Best Wishes Cysters! >Sunbeam (Jackie)

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