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Worried about my dad (IR related, so not completely OT!!!)From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 5 Jun 2001 06:45:12 -0500 (CDT)
Hi all This past weekend, I went to a birthday party for my cousin's middle daughter, who just turned 5. I noticed for the first time how much weight my father has put on... maybe because everyone else was joshing him about it? He's gotten really big around the middle, and he's always huffing and puffing and out of breath... Well, my dad has already had two heart attacks... one at age 48, one at age 50. He is now 54. His mother died of a heart attack when she was 51... (she also had two misscarriages earlier on, and serious complications with my father... This is why I think the PCOS/IR thing comes from my dad's side of the fam...) WELL... I know my dad walks every day, and I know that he doesn't eat the most perfect diet, but he tries. Thing is... well, you all know i'm sure how heart patients are told, eat low fat & high carb... My dad did lose a lot of weight this way after his first heart attack. But he started gaining again before his second... I saw that one coming 6 weeks away. Shortly after New Years of 1997, I told my dad he really needed to start going back to the doctor, that this indigestion he'd been having probably wasn't indigestion, that grandma thought it was indigestion too and look what happened to her... he said I was full of it, and six weeks later my brother and I were sitting in the OR waiting room with our aunts while my dad went under a quadrupile bypass. SO... I am really freaked out that I see this coming again. I have told him nothing about my PCOS. I don't really discuss my menstrual irregularities and body hair etc with my dad, you know? But I feel like maybe I should, maybe I should tell him about the IR part of things... but... I don't want to suggest a guy who already has heart probs go on a low carb diet! Even if it's supposed to lower cholesteral levels... well, I feel like I can play around with this risk, being young and healthy and relatively thin... I feel like metformin could really help my dad with weight loss and all... but ... does anyone know if there are doctors treating IR in men??? I am really worried, but somehow I doubt any doctor would look into this... Should I ask my endocrinologist? Print out some info and my own tale for my dad's doctor? Let it go? I'm so confused!!!!! I don't want my dad to have another heart attack, but I feel as though I can see one coming... I thought maybe for father's day I should get him a low carb/modified carb book... maybe sugar busters? But I don't know... Even though it's supposed to be healthy for people with heart probs to go low/reduced carb, I'm still scared to suggest it... - jodi
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