PCOS Messages for May, 2002: Re: Telling people at work you have PCOS

Re: Telling people at work you have PCOS

From: Panacea (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 21 May 2002 14:23:09 -0500 (CDT)

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I think telling my work colleagues about it is all that has saved my job. I miss a lot of work. I am lucky to pull 32 hours a week. I work in a small business with less than 30 employees and there are only about 5 people I will see on a weekly basis, including my boss. So I keep them all posted when they ask, mostly about the hypothyroidism and sleep apnea, so that they know that I am progressing in my treatments/options. I feel that this has clued them in and helped them understand what I'm going through so that they don't think I am just a slacker in the amount of time I have to spend at home or at doctor's appointments instead of working for them.

At Tue, 21 May 2002, anonymous wrote: >
>I just wondered if anyone had experience of telling people at work about
>their PCOS. I am relatively lucky in that I work from home with hours
>to suit but I got a call from a work colleague today at a bad time -
>just finished being sick (...still getting used to Metformin). I have
>been hiding it to stop the usual office gossip and to prevent
>discrimination as I am normally good at my job but work in a cut-throat
>research field. She asked if I was ok and I just blurted it all out
>about not feeling too well etc as she caught me at a bad moment and now
>I wish I hadn't. She was very nice about it and offered to take work
>off me to help and said I didn't have to do anything I didn't want to,
>but that is precisely the attitude I didn't want to start (even though I
>appreciate she was being very nice). At the end of the day I have lost
>my progesterone not my brain cells and like to keep busy even on the bad
>days as I am very stubborn and won't let this beat me. I just wondered
>about other people's experience of reactions from work colleagues.

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Panacea

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