PCOS Messages for June, 2002: Re: Anorexic with PCOS

Re: Anorexic with PCOS

From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:11:09 -0500 (CDT)

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It is not weight loss that helps with the PCOS, at least not entirely. It is the altered insulin levels/metabolism that take place during said weight loss that allow ovarian function, etc, to normalize. You can be thin and have messed up insulin levels/metabolism. Once weight is lost, if you were overweight to start, and if muscle is gained, you might be better off from a PCOS standpoint after weight loss... but it is not the weight loss by itself that helps with the PCOS.

So, you may well be anorexic, you may well be normal or underweight... but that does not mean you can't eat in such a fashion that your insulin levels are better controlled.

I was anorexic for years... then bulimic... and I'm not sure at which point my PCOS cropped up, but I can tell you... that as a thin anorexic, I am sure my insulin levels were nevertheless crazy. A tytpical day might be to skip breakfast and chug diet coke (caffeine decreases glucose tolerance) throughout the day. Then I would have either more diet coke for lunch, or some crazy non-fat food like concoction, or maybe something along the lines of an apple and some light bread with jelly... look at those carbs! Yeah, lets pour sugar and carbs into a body with sky high insulin from chugging diet coke all day. Then I might go home and repeat the same for dinner. Or maybe after a few days, I couldn't stand this any more, so I'd eat everything in the house, jack my insulin levels up through the roof, then throw up... which I am sure confuses the heck out of your body. Was I thin at this time? Certainly. But show me a 300 pound women who eats in a carb controlled fashion, and I bet her hormones were in better balance than mine at the time.

Even if you are thin, you can have insulin problems, and it is the insulin problems, not the weight, the casues PCOS.

As for weight gain on the pill... have you tried more than one kind? Not all pills have the same effects.

Are you in therapy for the anorexia?

- jodi

At Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Jessica wrote: >
>Its really not too fun..I mean either one alone sucks, but
>together---its like a big battle and it definitely triggers my eating
>disorder. Im not overweight so I cant treat myself by losing weight and
>I cant take BC b/c the last time I did that i gained weight and was very
>mentally "unstable". I get very very very bloated and either I get my
>period VERY late or not at all. It drives me crazy and the 5 lbs of
>bloat makes me want to just not eat even more. Does any1 have any
>advice for me please :(...The doctor mentioned taking Provera everyc
>ouple months for a week...?? Is it normal to get this bloated?
>
>--
><3 Jessica
>

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