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Re: Shaving the face(Don't)Glucophage(Metformin)and points on loosing weight.From: Christie (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:15:51 -0600 (CST)
I am sorry to reply to this post again, but I can't help but get fired up. I don't think I need to remind anyone that there is no absolute cure for PCOS, so we have to do the best we can for OURSELVES. What works for you may not work for us because we are completely different people. You do not have our medical records sitting in front of you, and you are not our doctor, so why do you feel you have the right to assume you know what's best for us? This is a forum for exchanging ideas, advise, successes and failures to help someone else make a decision on their own individual case, not a place to PREACH to others about how wrong they are and how they need to stop "sitting and hoping" they will lose a lot of weight. How would you know what we do in the privacy of our own homes? I happen to walk 2 to 3 miles a day and have STILL gained weight. Obviously this isn't working for me, so I will keep trying new things until I find something that does. How DARE you suggest that we sit around waiting for some miracle to happen while stuffing our faces with unhealthy foods. I am extremely appalled by your words and hope that you step off your pedestal for a few moments to understand that each of us has the right to explore ANY option we choose to help get ourselves healthy both mentally and physically. This includes herbs, crystals, meditating, yoga, medicines, etc. If it makes us feel better about ourselves and gets us one step closer to feeling *good* again, who are you to judge? I don't like writing negative posts, but ignorant people irritate me to no end. I want to excuse myself ahead of time to the rest of you for saying "us" and "we", as I have no right to speak for the rest of you, but I couldn't sit back and say nothing when we were all attacked by this post. Christie > >Hello out there. I am still reading posts on shaving the facial >hair off ones face. Why in the world would you take a razor to >your face and then later in life as you get older the hair be >thicker and more coarse? I have heard from someone on here that >this is not true but let me tell you............I see it daily and >it is true. If you shave your face it will in time be thicker and >more noticeable. I use sally hansen cream FACIAL hair remover and >it works just fine and the hairs are not thicker and have not gotten >thick or darker in the 10 years i have used it. > >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. > >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. > >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............... >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 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. > >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. > >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. > >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. > >Trying is not a week process it is more like months and months to a life >time. > >Take care >Lauree
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