Re: If you care to read my PCO story here it is... long.. maybe to some folks...
From: Amy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:43:34 -0500 (CDT)
Thea,
I am pretty new at this and I totally understand the carb thing. Have
you tried giving up just one thing at a time? That is what helped me. I
gave up soda first. I still relapse every once in a while and have to
start over. Maybe just start incorparting more veggies and whole foods
in your diet, without giving up all your favorites. Then work slowly on
one more thing at a time.
Exercising has helped me a lot too. You sound very busy. I applaud you
on adopting children!! There are so many children out there that need a
loving home.
Having a buddy to give support helped me a lot. She doesn't have PCOS,
but she understands and she is also trying to lose weight. She
encourages me when it gets too much to bear.
It is a long hard road, but I just know that we can all make it!! Don't
give up! I wish you the best! Hugs!!!!
At Wed, 16 Oct 2002, thea wrote:
>
>I am 40 yrs old and discovered that I had PCOS after reading an article
>in the 2001 Woman's Day maazine. I was so happy because now I had a
>label to put to the problem I experienced in my life since I was a teen.
>I had one miscarriage at 18 yrs of agethat I konw of.... My doctor
>belives that the way my periods were so heavy and very irregualr,along
>with severe cramping that I probably had other miscarriages but didn't
>know about it. I am glad because I would not have been able to stand
>knowing that I was pregnant and lost so many babies. At any rat, I did
>have two children. they are 7 yrs apart. one boy and a girl. I never
>used birth control during that time and it seem to be hard to get
>pregnant. I married my high schhol sweet heart at 26 and delivered our
>son the following year.I have been overweight all of my life. Looking
>back I see all of my aunts on my father's side I now know that they had
>PCO's. Because they look just like me. I currently am very over
>weight, fat obese, morbidly obese. I weight over 300 pounds..350 pounds
>is not an option and I am carrying around two people on my back.... it
>is crazy.....I also have sleep apnea as well as restless leg syndrome.I
>have a cpap that I use to help me at night. I take meds for the leg
>spasms. I take metaform ( I have not lost any weight with this
>med..partly because I don't take it like i aam supposed to. the side
>affects are crazy.. the gas and dihreea (sp) alone is enough to blow a
>hole in the wall of a steel bank volt.!!!! now I am to the point that I
>can no longer live like this. I feel like the residents in the nursing
>home where I work - old and not able to get around so well. I have six
>children now. two biologiccal and the rest I have adopted. I attend
>nursing school during the evening and on weekends I work double shifts.
>I have two 12month old twin boys that I just adopted and I will be
>picking up a baby from the hospital on friday.. 6 children total. I am
>not looking to have more children of my own naturely. My husband had a
>vaseccotmy right after our daughter was born. We felt that we needed no
>other children and that would be that. God said not so... He had the
>last say so in that matter!!!! God has a wonderful sense of humour!!!
>Six children who would have thought it...certainly not me. I have tried
>this atkins diet and it is so hard for me to give up carbs. I know that
>I am addicted to them. I get up eating them and go to bed eating them.
>I must have them..just like a junky needing a fix... it is that bad...
>I get irritable, grouchy and down right mean at times... wow... it is
>wild.... Atkins is hard... I have to get my act to gether... I want
>to live and lead a healthy lifestyle. I have a daughter who looks just
>like I did when I was her age... I know whe will have PCO's I have to
>get my act together so I can teach her the right way to live.
>
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>thea
>
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Amy H.
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