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Re: Will weight loss eliminate my PCOS???
From: Laura (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 25 Nov 2002 21:00:47 -0700
there are many types of the surgery and I have seen it work through a
friend, although she doesn't have PCOS,but did have a problem with the
obesity. I believe that some of it is on you and another is on the fact
that if you over eat you are going to be throwing it up. Even if you over
drink will be throwing it up
>----- Original Message -----
From: "jodi" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list PCOS" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: Will weight loss eliminate my PCOS???
> It may lessen your symptoms... it may not.
>
> I recently saw a special on obesity on the discovery channel, and they
> (for once!) showed a woman who had the obesity surgery and failed. She
> was right back to being obese again. She commented on how she was
> really silly not to think beforehand that she doesn't eat because she is
> hungry, why would a surgery that makes her feel full/less hungry keep
> her from eating? And it didn't.
>
> So I mean, first of all, if you do overeat, I think you need to really
> look at why. If you have a smaller stomach... will that really keep
> you from eating sugary fattening foods?
>
> So maybe you will lose weight with this surgery. Weight loss is
> supposed to lessen PCOS symptoms. The thing is, it isn't the weight
> loss, per say, that does this. It is the altered insulin response in
> the body. When you lose weight, ideally, there is a lot more going on
> than just the number on the scale going down. You should be lowering
> your insulin levels and stabilizing your blood sugar levels through
> better eating choices, and you should be improving your overall body
> composition through losing fat and hopefully building muscle. These
> things result in a reduction of insulin resistance, which should result
> in a lessening of PCOS symptoms.
>
> If you are dieting, and losing weight, but really only losing lean
> tissue, I don't know if you really see results, symptom-wise, or, if you
> do, if the results are lasting. I think that, theoretically, it would
> be possible to have this surgery, lose a lot of lean muscle tissue, and
> then in the end not be all that much better off. I really don't know.
> If you have a lot of body fat, and have this surgery, it would stand to
> reason that if you do lose a lot of weight, you must have reduced at
> least a good portion of your body fat. But, I think your food choices
> could still wreak havoc on your symptoms. There ARE thin women with
> PCOS, just as there are fat women without PCOS, so weight really isn't
> the absolute cause of the problem, nor is losing it the absolute cure.
> (I am relatively thin at 5'4 and 140 pounds, but I still have PCOS. I
> have a friend, my height, 200+ pounds, who most definitely does NOT have
> PCOS. There isn't really a whole lot of rhyme or reason to this...
> :-) )
>
> SO, in a nutshell... it may help with your symptoms. But don't count
> on it curing you, and don't count on that being all it will take. You
> will still need to make sensible food choices. You will still need to
> exercise and build lean tissue. You may still find insulin sensitizing
> drugs to be useful.
>
> You may want to talk to an endocrinologist with an interest in PCOS, if
> you haven't already. Have you tried any other methods of controlling
> your symptoms yet? For how long?
>
> Let us know what happens, either way. This is definitely something a
> lot of women with PCOS consider.
>
> At Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Patrice wrote:
> >
> >I am having surgery in two weeks for weight loss will that eliminate my
PCOS???
>
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