PCOS Messages for November, 2001: Re: Please help with with a school project!

Re: Please help with with a school project!

From: UK (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 03:30:32 -0600 (CST)

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I was diagnosed 2 years ago when I was 23. I feel I should have been diagnosed many years earlier. Certainly when i was 17 as i was putting on so much weight for no apparant reason. They just kept testing me for diabetes and thyroid but nothing else. Mind you, I never had absent or really irregular periods so I guess nobody would have guessed it was PCOS. I was offered a metabolism test which I was really keen for but then they told me it probably wasn't worthwhile - I just needed to excercise and diet (story of my life). I had however been suffering excess hair, boils, skin tags etc since I was about 14 or 15.

My quality of life would definitely have improved had i known about PCOS all thise years ago. Having it drummed into you that you are fat, lazy, greedy etc - yet you can't stop the cravings - and feeling like a man because you have hair sprouting everywhere - makes you feel like a total freak and so different to everyone else. If I had received treatment all those years ago - maybe the last 8 years wouldn't have been such hell.

Good luck with your project.

At Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Meaghan wrote: >
>I am doing a project for one of my classes where I am trying to develop
>a program for schools to educate people about PCOS. The questions that
>I have for all of you are pretty simple to answer, and I think some of
>you have answered them before, but I would love it if anyone could
>answer them again, either on this forum or sent to my email address.
>Here are the questions:
>1) How old were you when you were diagnosed with PCOS?
>2) How old were you when you think you should have first been diagnosed?
>3) How old were you when you first started showing any signs of PCOS?
>and last, 4) If there had been information available to you in your
>school about PCOS, do you think it would have improved the quality of
>your life either at that age or now?
>Thank you all so much in advance!
>
>--
>Meaghan
>

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