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Re: QUESTIONS,QUESTIONS.......
From: lynsey (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:36:22 +0000
Hiya Barbara,
I am anorexic but have not gone with out eating for wow 6 yrs now!!! Anyway yes it does affect the periods but i had very irregular periods before this time and one of the reasons i think i stopped eating was because nothing else worked to bring down my weight. This is not just altered body image as people can see it too and no one ever told me i looked ill, but when i was eating nothing and going to aerobics up to 3 times a day i just looked like a normal girl for my age and people kept complimenting me on how well i had done to loose "all" that weight.
You were also asking about problems with the immune system, well i have not been diagnosed yet but the gp has just taken bloodtests to test me for chronic fatigue syndrome and he was very shocked that my old gp did not pick it up as apparently i have had overwhelming symptoms all the way through my history for the past 4-5 yrs.
I am also asthmatic and seem to be allergic to everything!! Bloomin heck i might as well go and live in a bubble!!!!!! Good luck Barbara hope you manage to work it all out!
Lynsey Gilmore
>From: anonymous@obgyn.net (Barbra Camara)
>Reply-To: anonymous@obgyn.net
>To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS
>Subject: QUESTIONS,QUESTIONS.......
>Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 04:46:34 -0600
>
>Hi Ladies,
>
>Out of curiosity and by reading alot of old posts on this forum,and from
>getting several private emails....I am wondering how many others out
>there suffer from Fibromyalgia,Chronic Fatigue
>Syndrome,Mononucleosis,lupus,MS,Irritable Bowel Syndrome,.....and other
>types of sydromes that doctors can't put a name to.
>
>I would tend to think that pcos is in the class of Syndrome X.
>Do you ladies agree?
>
>Is there doubts in any of your minds,that possibly this is
>autoimmune?That it can cause other problems if not treated?/And with
>that,I don't mean the diabetes issues etc,that we all know it can cause.
>
>In the last few weeks,I have received many emails regarding my posts
>from some that posted here maybe once or twice.They were diagnosed
>recently with PCOS..but their main problems were that of fibromyalgia
>and others,and the pcos was or seemed to be a co-incidental finding.
>
>My stepson was over the other day with his girlfriend who I had not seen
>in a while.This was also co-incidental,as I had not seen her,as Paul,my
>stepson,told me she was on sick leave with fibromyalgia.
>So,they come over and she is just so heavy now and hairloss and she said
>it was the fibromyalgia and that they said she had ovarian cysts.
>I told her about my newly found diagnosis,and she said:"that's what they
>told me".
>Then she said that a reproductive specialist put her on BCP as well as
>two others that I see on this post regularily,but cannot remember the
>names.
>I asked her if she did have fibro...and she now said "NO".
>
>IS there some kind of correlation that anyone can answer for me.
>She is 25....was a model,..very thin,,,,now very,very heavy,and acne
>that is probably the worst that I have ever seen.ON her
>face,back,shoulders,chest,arms....everywhere!
>
>Another thing is that she suffered with Bulemia for several years!
>Any thoughts on that one.
>I always knew she purged,but we never discussed it.
>Now,she was quite open to talking about the fact that she had to throw
>up to maintain her weight.I always knew that it was having negative
>responses on her once lovely body.
>
>Just wondering if being anorexic or bulemic can bring this on.
>This may sound stupid,,,,but,I would tend to think that one binging and
>purging for several years would have some effects on the body.One being
>that she was severely dehydrated and she had told me that she didn't
>have to worry about her and Paul having children,,so no BCP"S at the
>time,as she had not had a period for years.I know that starvation
>diets,dieting and too much exercise can effect menses.Alot of athletic
>friends of mine...don't have periods,but were told that is because of
>their heavy duty exercising.IS this true!I find this somewhat hard to
>grasp.
>
>--
>Gentle hugs to all,
>Barbra Camara
>
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