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Re: New to the PCOS group
From: Koolaide (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:19:13 -0600 (CST)
Hi Rochelle...welcome aboard ! You have found the best place in the
world if you have pcos! The women here are so wondeful and have been
like family to me for the past few years. I couldn't not have managed
without them, some come and go, but they are all here for one reason.
Support. My story in a nutshell...I am 34 years old, married to my
prince charming, overweight, hairy, and desperatly wanting a baby. I'm
sure you know all the other details ! lol
Anyway, again, welcome and I'm sure we'll talk again.
Bonnie
At Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Rochelle wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I just found this website today. I must say it is a wonderful feeling
>to know that I am not the only one. Sometimes it is not enough to hear
>from your doctors that there are other women with this trouble.
>
>I read through many of your posts and thought I might respond to some of
>them.
>
>Barbara wanted to know about weight gain. I have always been a little
>overweight. Heck, if being heavy was the sure sign of PCOS I was born
>with it. I remember I was on diets as young as 6 or 7. When I was 15 I
>actually lost down to 135lbs. That was the first, last, and only time I
>was at a healthy weight. The problem really got out of control when I
>went to college. I gained 70lbs. in six months. I thought it was
>because of my eating habits, but hindsight is 20/20. All of my symptoms
>started then. The extra hair growth, the total halt of periods, the
>weight gain. But I just tossed it all up to my eating and irregular
>taking of BC. I would say if you are on treatment for PCOS your chances
>of overnight weight gain are lowered, but watch your body. If I had
>listened to mine it wouldn't have taken 7 years to be diagnosed. I am
>5'3 and weigh 250lbs.
>
>Heather, I believe, wanted to know if there was hope for children after
>17. I am so sorry that a doctor could be so misinformed. It's like the
>one doctor I heard say "If your going to smoke you may as well do
>cocaine!" Crazy! I would urge you to find another doctor. And to heed
>the advice the other women gave.
>
>Someone wanted to know about Yasmin. I have been on it for 3 months. My
>hair is not "really" thick, but it's ok. I have not noticed "head"hair
>loss (although since I was 19 it seems to be very unheathly and a lot of
>breakage), but I have noticed that the hair on my chin is better. I
>have had laser treatments for the last year, before I found out about
>PCOS. If fact my laser tech alerted me to PCOS, and I was so excited to
>find out that PCOS could be the problem I ran to the DR. Anyway, I
>found the Othro-whatever seemed to hendering the laser treatments. I
>told my DR. and the Yasmin seemed to adjust my body immediatly. I have
>decided not to continue laser until I start glucophage. Can't keep
>throwing away the money.
>
>I must respond to "noticing women with PCOS." While this is a very
>difficult decision, I think you heart is in the right place. I suffered
>with all these symptoms for 6 years before anyone was kind enough to say
>something. I had as co-worker who had mentioned my chin-hair a couple
>of times. I was SO embrassed, she would try to comfort me... saying
>she was going through it too, but I would shut her down fast. Then on a
>Monday she saw my face (I didn't have money for waxing or laser and was
>doing it myself), I had ripped off, it felt like, the first layer of my
>skin. She took me to the bathroom and begged me to see her laser tech.
>Even mentioned the PCOS to me. If it hadn't been for her I would still
>be suffering. Maybe what you could do is make friends with this person
>and share your troubles. If that is not possible, then just go to her
>and say "I really want to talk to you -- how about lunch?" Give
>yourselves some time away from the office locale to minimize the
>embrassment or possiblity of observers. Then tell her your story, and
>how LONG it took you and all of us to be diagnosed and say "I'm not a
>doctor, but if you haven't looked into it maybe you might want to." I
>think if you point out all your symptoms and none of hers she will get
>the point. You don't have to tell her she's overweight and losing her
>hair -- she already knows that.
>
>Let's see, there is the supportive husband. Dear man, God Bless you. I
>assume your wife was recently diagnosed and maybe given some
>misinformation as was Heather. Children are a possibilty with PCOS.
>Heed the advice given here by others. You mention you can't talk to her
>about this, but really you have to. Gather your knowledge and your
>love, and then sit down with her when you both have some time. I too am
>very concerned about my ability to have kids. I am 27 and my husband is
>32. I hearing my biological clock ticking away. But if you don't talk
>to her then nothing can be resloved. Maybe show her this forum and our
>posts. As I said in the beginning, it is a wonderful feeling to know
>you are not alone.
>
>Well, this was a long post I know. I am glad to have such a forum and
>together maybe we can all get through this.
>
>Warmly,
>Rochelle
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