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Re: Abs of dough... any hope for a PCOS belly?
From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 09:13:12 -0500 (CDT)
Nope, no belly surgery here. I know all about that causing long-term
damage, though... I remember in 7th grade, our health teacher was
telling us about abdominal exercises to tone the stomach, etc... and
she told us if you ever have a baby by cesarean section they have to cut
through the muscle and you'll never be firm again... and to demonstrate
she pulled her shirt up, and our stick-thin-everywhere-else health
teacher just had this tubby little belly... it was horrifying. I mean,
it wouldn't both me now, but to a room full of 7th grade girls who are
completely wigged out about the changes going on in their bodies to look
upon this weird connection between "periods that we hate can result in
pregnancy which could result in a c-section and then we might look like
THAT when we're supposed to look like the girls in seventeen magazine
and OH MY GOD!" or something like that... it's just one of those weird
middle school things that's stuck with me...
- jodi
At Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Renee wrote:
>
>I don't think those ab stimulators do much. I donh't think that the intensity
>needed to be effective is safe to do at home. I remember how many precautions
>and contraindications we had to learn in physical therapy school for
>electrical stimulation, and I get scared about untrained people doing it.
>
>One thing to think about. If you've ever had abdominal or groin surgery, and
>you have a "pouch" even while thin, you may have lymphedema in the abdomen.
>One of my staff members recently went to a lymphedema class. She had had a
>"pouch" since childhood. She learned that the hernia surgery she had damaged
>her lymphatic system, and she's had lymphedema all this time. She learned some
>self-massage, and it's helped.
>
>If that profile fits you, then you may want to seek out a lymphedema
>specialist (nurse, or physical therapist). http://www.lymphnet.org is a good place
>to start.
>
>Renee
>
>"Barb C." wrote:
>>
>> Me too,
>> What do you think of those electronic muscle stimulators?
>> You know the one's that are advertised on television all the
>> time;showing these people with washing board abdomens.
>> The thought of wearing one around my ab makes me nauseated.
>> Has anyone ever tried one?
>> Just wondering if this would cause problems for us ,or if in fact;it
>> would do anything at all.
>>
>> I am curious if this is going to be a lifetime ordeal with the doughy
>> abdomen.
>> I am normal everywhere else...there is nothing that seems to help me
>> with my inflating abdomen.
>> I carry all my "dough" in the lower abdomen.
>> Even when I was paper thin-I always had a pouch.
>>
>> At Wed, 17 Apr 2002, jodi wrote:
>> >
>> >I am really getting irritated by the doughiness of my stomach as of
>> >late. I'm not daft enough to believe I'll ever be one of those annoying
>> >flat-stomached girls in the low-slung flared leg Mudds... but I'd sure
>> >love to lose some of this gut. I do aerobic type exercise, I try to eat
>> >PCOS-friendly, I take met... but there's this doughiness. I think I
>> >really need to do some abdominal work but it seems like whenever I do, I
>> >must not be doing ti right because I never feel anything. It's like the
>> >rolls of fat keep me from doing it correctly... as if you can only do
>> >ab work if you already have a flat stomach! Has anyone found any
>> >routines for the gut that help?
>> >
>> >- jodi
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>> Barb C.
>>
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>Renee Cordrey, MSPT, MPH, CWS
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>Dwell in Possibility.
>--Emily Dickenson
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