PCOS Messages for March, 2002: Re: Shaving the face(Don't)Glucophage(Metformin)and points on loosing weight.

Re: Shaving the face(Don't)Glucophage(Metformin)and points on loosing weight.

From: Barbra (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 5 Mar 2002 07:53:27 -0600 (CST)

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At Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Lauree wrote: >
>Metformin/Glucophage same thing just one is the medical name for it.
>It does not help to loose weight UNLESS you low carb/watch what you eat
>and excercise. It is given to you to help you use the carbs in your
>bodies that is not breaking down on there own. You are suppose to take
>it with food or after your meal. If you eat too many carbs on it it will
>cause diareha or stomache upset.
>
>Those that are on it and need to loose weight it is not your cure. Your
>cure is going to be changing your eating habits and until you do it is
>not
>going to work to loose weight and or control it. It starts with you. So
>many of you are not seeing the real point here. When the doctor says
>loose
>weight he is not saying it too hurt you. It is for your health.
>

I apologize,but I think I will speak on behalf on some of the women on this post.....we have been told this far too many times from our doctors. We are ALL trying to lose this battle of the bulge! Yes,as a matter of a fact,one doctor this year,basically told me that there was no way on this planet that I could have possibly gained forty pounds by looking at the sunshine,those were his exact words.I eat low carbs...less than a hundred a day...exercise.,although sometimes it is so difficult,as I don't have the strenght....and I am gaining weight.I didn't have this problem up untill a year and a half ago.This was a prime example of why I was sent to an endo.

Sorry,but it does hurt when no-one believes that you are eating sensibly and exercising.My one doctor truly believes that I must be eating cheesecakes all day long to have packed on the pounds.Most doctor don't understand PCOS. I seen my step son's girlfriend-recently diagnosed with PCOS....she was a super thin model-now she is very overweight and her diet consists of almost nothing. She was bulemic to control her weight.Now want to talk about someone that exercises.......she does and no matter what-she cannot understand how even small,frequent meals that are high protein and low carbs could have made her so heavy.She turned bulemic because she had no other way of maintaining her weight...didn't know she had pcos till this drastic weight problem after conquering her bulemia.She was heavy as a child.

I am not overweight presently....but this weight gain came as a surprise to both myself and my MD.I have pcos-have not ever in my life been overweight,actually normal weight all my life till present!

>You will take the medication and sit and hope to loose alot of weight
>and
>then when it does not happen you all get depressed. I have been there.
>Until
>you control the intake the outcome is not going to be any better on the
>glucophage.
>

Are you saying that we are all SITTING waiting for these pounds to just melt away?I think not.The women here are determined to lose the excess flab. We are all trying to share info as to how to exercise and stick to a good diet. For some-yes diet,and exercise may work.For others-they can try almost everything and not lose an ounce.This is an endocrine disorder.....please have a heart:)This reminds me of my last doctor's visit to the doctor from hell!

>And if anyone out there suggests shaving your face to get rid of hair
>before
>doing The cream hair removers for Facial areas with an occasional
>plucking
>with twizers I can only say when you hit an older age you will be sorry.
>
>There...............

I disagree with that statement,although I am lucky enough not to have excess facial hair...but I do shave my abdomen hair,and have been for two decades now and there is no way that your statement has any proof. Alot of the facial hair removers can cause extreme skin sensitivites in people. Electrolysis may be a better bet...but in my research,,,what you speak of is simply a myth.The texture of your hair does change every few years-I believe ,every seven years.Same holds some truth for body hair.The hair on my arms is now finer than it was before,and I shaved my arms for years.Look at legs....do they change and get bushier after shaving since puberty?Mine certainly haven't.

>is hope out there but the easy way out IS NOT GOING TO WORK. IT took
>time to
>gain the pounds and it will TAKE time to loose it too.
>

I gained forty pounds in a year......by looking at the sun(quote from a very unsympathetic doctor!)It certainly didn't take me long to pack on pounds by the day.Then would it be wise to assume that I should be able to lose it as quickly as I gained it?I know is won't be easy.I used to be able to be within five pounds of a perfect weight.Not anymore.

>I really hate to post like this but i would hate to see someone become
>more
>depressed later down the road for wrongful posts of shaving is the best
>way to
>get rid of facial hair and that the medication they are passing out for
>pcos is
>metformin(glucophage). I lost more weight low carbing without
>Glucophage then
>i am low carbing and working out with glucophage. But my body was not
>breaking
>down the carbs enough. Glucophage for those without diabetes is more
>like a
>preventative then a cure. It is not meant for that it is to help assist
>with a
>a diet and excercise plan. Plain and simple. The doctor will even tell
>you
>to control eating habits while on the medication.
>

Some may have weight loss as a side effect of the medication-no-one believes that this is some magic diet pill or cure all for pcos.As women with Ir...we need the met to prevent diabetes.

I think we have all been told this over and over and over again.

>Ladies please ask your doctors more thorough questions to actually get
>the
>truth in what you really need to know. Do not be afraid to ask him or
>her they
>are there to ask.
>

In defense of others -I would tend to think that you are simply making a statement that we aren't trying hard enough and that hurts.

>I see women come into the place i work nearly in tears because they
>shave their
>face and can not loose weight. There mothers shaved and so now they do.
>That
>was not intended for women to do. When young men shave what happens
>when they are in there 30s? It is darker bushier and thicker. I won't
>candy coat all
>this for you. Get yourselves tough and stick to a diet and low carb
>menu and
>do some kind of excercise that fits your way of life.
>

Simply put-I think most are definitely trying exercise that fits with their way of life.I cannot imagine what it would feel like to try and exercise with an additional forty pounds on top of the forty that I have already gained. Some women are very heavy,that even getting around can be extremely difficult,but they still try.

>Since becoming a nurse studing more on pcos on my own and with help from
>doctors and a doctors wife with pcos my eyes have been opened. When
>before I
>would believe all that i read and was nearly falling for all the given
>hope.
>The hope is all in your hands and what you intend to do with it. If you
>read
>anything on pcos it all falls back to watching what you eat and how your
>daily
>life style is. If you do not change it nothing will work for you.
>

I don't think there is one woman in this group that has not changed.For that matter,I think we are rearranging our lives to work around this illness.It is the illness that controls us.We have to try to fight back-yes-but it is always easy for someone else to say. I think most women would be quite happy that this approach has worked for you,as I am.But,on the other hand,alot may be offended at the way you presented this post.As an average weight woman now....I wonder how long it will be till I reach the 200 lbs mark...exercise,diet and meds combined.All of us women are unique and different-what works for one-does not work for the other.That's why we're here.To help each other along.

>Trying is not a week process it is more like months and months to a life
>time.
>

I agree,,it is a life time commitment,but felt as though you are talking to us,as if we think that we are going to lose weight within a week.I don't think anyone assumes that!

>Take care
>Lauree

--
Gentle hugs to all,
Barbra Camara

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