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To Panacea: PCOS and no IR?
From: Missy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:46:21 -0600 (CST)
I gain weight in my thighs and butt. This is all interesting though.
At Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Panacea wrote:
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>At Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Belle wrote:
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>>Only about 1/2 of the women with PCOS are overweight according to some
>>reports. IR can have nothing to do with weight.
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>True. My mother was always thin and was diagnosed with adult onset
>(type II) diabetes when she was 27. She usually stayed around 120-130
>lbs at 5'6" but right before her diagnosis her condition had deteriated
>so far that she was stick thin. She never gained weight and as fat as
>she ever got in her lifetime was 150s and she usually lost it again,
>plus as you age weight packs on she especially has trouble with it
>around her middle. Skinny as can be everywhere but there's that big
>belly :) she didn't have trouble sticking to any diets or anything
>either it was just her natural weight.
>
>--
>Panacea
>Diagnosed PCOS in 1998, didn't get treated until 2002 :(
>
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