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Re: Agent orange and sick of pcos
From: Tania (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 08 Aug 2001 03:37:54 +0000
I think people are trying to make connections where there aren't any, and
Agent orange connection has got to be a big one. My father didn't go to
vietnam, and neither did the fathers of a few of my friends with PCOS, and
if they did, who's to say they had exposure. That would be like saying PCOS
causes in-grown toe nails.
I also would like to point out that WE ARE NOT DYING. Sure, life is harder
for those of us that are sufferring from PCOS, but it is not the end of the
world. WE aren't losing cognative capability, bowel control, motor skills,
we have our sight, and we can feed ourselves. WE have many problems that set
us apart from the Mtv quality society, but in the real world we are fine. We
are real people with real problems that we can overcome with the assistance
of medication. We can live as long as normal people(by the way, what IS
normal?) as long as we take care of ourselves. We will never be on the cover
of COSMO, but plenty of us could do the cover of MODE.
What we need to do is suck it up and drive on girls.
I do send my love to everyone of you, I don't want to make anyone mad we
just need to face reality.
>From: Renee <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>Reply-To: anonymous@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS <anonymous@obgyn.net>
>Subject: Re: Agent orange and sick of pcos
>Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 18:03:44 -0500
>
>There might be a connection. That was a pretty nasty chemical.
>
>However, remember that there are 6-10% of women with PCOS. There were a
>lot
>of girls born in those years (I don't have the numbers handy). Therefore,
>there are a lot of women born in those years who will go on to develop PCOS
>no
>matter what the cause is. And, because only women with PCOS are on this
>list,
>there will be a certain number of women born during those years whose
>fathers
>happened to be there and gotten exposed. This is NOT proof of a
>connection.
>Again, we need to see if there is a higher percentage of women with PCOS
>with
>a history of paternal exposure than those who don't have that history.
>
>If anyone out there is working on a degree in epidemiology or
>biostatistics,
>there is a dissertation waiting to be written here...
>
>Renee
>(yes, I've taken epidemiology and biostats classes as part of my public
>health degree)
>
>anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
> >
> > This is what I wrote to Michelle the 8th person who has e-mailed me
>about
> > orange and pcos.
> > Some may be affected by the orange syndrom and some are from other gene
> > mis-haps.
> > Chemicals are related one way or the other.
> > Something went very wrong to have sooooo many women affected and soooo
>many
> > different but same problems we all commonly share. Why so many problems
>with
> > one God aweful disease?????? There's absolutely nothing to do about
>this
> > disease but mask it with all the drugs available out there. will there
> > never be a cure ??????
> > Will we ever be noticed or will we constantly be shrugged off-written
>off.
> >
> > Michelle,
> >
> > You know how they are--Last minute to do anything. They pushed our poor
> > soldiers away until 1978 when they finally conducted research. I can't
> > believe that there are so many women that have this problem that do have
> > family that were in the gulf and vietnam war. There's still so many
>women
> > that don't even know what's wrong with them wether it's agent orange
>link or
> > not. But this still needs to be opened up and much more attention given
>to
> > pcos. What can we do but wait for cancer or a hysterectomy. Take birth
> > control or what ever drug they give you that just masks the problems or
>even
> > makes them worse. I don't know what to even say about plain old pcos.
>There's
> > so many problems relating to it-it's not just missed periods or hair
>loss and
> > growth, hormone changes and zits or diabetes and irritated bowl syndrom
>and
> > God knows what else. How can one thing lead to your hole body falling
>apart.
> > I don't know but I don't what to really know what the future holds for
>me now.
> > Tara God bless and take care
> >
>
>--
>Renee Cordrey, MSPT, MPH, CWS
>---
>
>Don't follow in the footsteps of the masters. Seek what they sought.
> --Zen saying
>
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