PCOS Messages for January, 2002: Re: Day 1..... Living with PCOS.....

Re: Day 1..... Living with PCOS.....

From: Kimberly (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 00:48:55 -0600 (CST)

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Welcome to the club! :)

Yes it gets easier. Much easier - especially when you are equiped with all the info you can find and a dr. who knows what they are doing. A good place to start is one of the many websites devoted to PCOS. To give you a bit of knowledge at this point, so you have a bit more hope, birth control is not an appropriate TREATMENT for PCOS, and sometimes makes the condition worse. The only appropriate treatment is treatment with insulin sensitizing drugs (Glucophage, Actos or Avandia) and/or modification of diet and exercise. If you did not see a reproductive endocrinologist (RE) I highly recommend that you do. If you did see one, and their only course of action was birth control, I highly recommend that you seek out a different one. Birth control only controls a FEW of the symptoms of PCOS - and it does absolutely nothing to help change the cause of PCOS. It would be similar to taking tylenol for a headache that is caused by carrying a huge load of bricks on your back. It would make the headache go away, but only so long as you are taking it - and your back will still be damaged eventually. It would obviously be much more reasonable to just let go of the bricks and avoid the headache all together. Insulin sensitizing drugs actually correct what is causing all your problems.

Contrary to how you might be feeling now, this is a very manageable disease - and there is a good chance that with proper treatment you can live a completely normal life and have all the things you hope for your future.

The best way to cope with PCOS is to educate yourself - you will find that it's not as scary as it is annoying. It is absolutely neccesary to educate YOURSELF because there are far too few dr.'s who understand and know how to treat this condition.

I wish you the best of luck.

t Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Sweetbriar wrote: >
>Hi...
>
>I was just diagnosed, officially, today with PCOS. I'm not going to lie
>to you, i feel like i'm completely helpless. The doctor put me on a
>regimine of birth control. My husband, bless his heart, is a wonderful
>man...he has been putting up with my mood swings...(I cry like a baby),
>and he says we will adopt, if God doesn't allow us to conceive. I just
>want to know one thing. does it get easier? I just have one question.
>Can anyone help me with how they cope with PCOS? Thanks.

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