PCOS Messages for June, 2001: Re: Underwieght and PCOS

Re: Underwieght and PCOS

From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 07:23:17 -0500 (CDT)

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I don't know if you'll find any written evidence to back it up but... i personally think depression is most definitely related to PCOS. i was diagnosed with depression, manic depression, "borderline personality disorder", all through high school... funny, all of that is now behind me, i am on no mood medications or seeing no sort of therapist... and i don't think stuff like that is something you outgrow!!!!!!!

i think the horrible symptoms we deal with - weight gain, overweight, body hair, acne - play horrible games with our self esteem... and then our hormones are either sky high in all the wrong ways, or fluctuating in all the wrong ways... and well, we ALL know what hormones do to mood... :P

i bet PCOS women do tend to be more depressed on average than non-PCOS women. whether this is a psychological or physical thing... well, i see how it can be both. (i mean, like, you know... some feel depression can be talked through... it's just a mood problem... some feel it is a medical problem warrenting medication...)

as for being underweight and having PCOS... yup, it can happen. it's rarer, i think... and thin women are supposed to have less trouble with the excess ahir than overweight women... but, it's possible.

it's also possible - not to scare you - that your day in the sun so to speak with weight gain is yet to come... not CERTAIN by any means, especially since you know what you're dealing with... but many PCOSers, I believe, were under to normal weight when their problems started...

- jodi

At Wed, 27 Jun 2001, supreme wrote: >
>I have also been recently diaggosed with depression. Could that also be
>related to PCOS?
>
>At Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Beth wrote:
>>
>>Yes it is possible!
>>
>>--
>>Beth
>>
>>At Wed, 27 Jun 2001, supreme wrote:
>>>
>>>I am currently undergoing testing for PCOS. My mother had and has given
>>>birth to 4 children. I am 5'9" and am only 117 pounds. I have all the
>>>other symptoms of PCOS (ie. irregular periods, hair growth) except
>>>weight gain. Is it still possible to have PCOS??
>>
>>--
>>Beth
>>Rockport, MA
>>

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