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Re: age the different aspects of pcos began?From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:24:51 -0600 (CST)
OK, here's mine. Stuff I didn't know had any meaning at all at the time, but now think has to do with PCOS/IR. Age 8, I was taking a bath and noticed that the skin on the soles of my feet was dry and thick and hard. My mother said I should use Dove soap on them. I don't think she realized I meant dry like rawhide, not dry skin! Also age 8, 2nd grade - we always ended morning prayers in school with the Pledge of Allegiance. One day I noticed my hand didn't fit so flat on my chest - my boobies were growing. I was not pleased. Also age 8, my pediatrician tells my mother that I am too fat and should go on a diet. I weighed 75 pounds, he thought I should weigh 60. Thus began a cycle of sneaking food and yo yo dieting that continues to this day, as does my loathing of my pediatrician. 3rd grade - the dreaded yearly school physical. Four of us at a time go to the nurses office, where we are weighed and measured in front of our peers. The weight results are shouted out. I weigh 113 pounds - I guess this was my biggest PCOS to come weight jump. (Of course, the nurse did not mention that I also grew six inches between my last physical and then... and all the boys - and it was all boys I got sent down with - laughed at me.) Also third grade... notice pubic hair. I am not pleased! I try trimming it with safety scissors in the girl's lavatory. Not too effective. Also at this time I start getting that revving-up-for-menstruation vaginal discharge in my underpants - I think I am just not wiping well enough! Fat kid through 4th, 5th grades... Late in 5th grade, one month shy of my eleventh birthday, I get my first period. It is Valentine's Day. I was not pleased. I still have weird feelings about Valentine's day... Now, in retrospect, having done a good deal of research on both PCOS and puberty, I think that my puberty was VERY drawn out. I think this has to have had something to do with PCOS, my body was revving up but couldn't quite get over the bump. So all of the above does have a point. :-) Also in 5th grade, leg hair is horrible. I begin shaving. Or else I wear tights. In June. 6th grade, still a fat kid. I have no idea if during this time, my periods were normal or not. I know I didn't have problems with cramps. But I wanted nothing to do with the whole mess. I didn't chart my periods when they came and anticipate their coming by carrying protection - I simply wished and wished and wished they WOULDN'T come, and when I had them, I wished they'd go away. But I know that during this time, I had periods, that I went through several packages of feminine protection. Also during this time, my weight rose to - I am embarrassed about this to this day - 180 pounds. I was a fat kid!!! In 7th grade, I decided to do something about it. I decided to go on a diet, and in the end became anorexic. Not your skin-and-bones, People magazine sort of anorexic, but between September and December, I dropped a good 50+ pounds. My periods stopped. This was to be expected in someone who is doing aerobics 2 hours a night and isn't eating enough to sustain your average ant. I have no idea if PCOS was in play then or not. 8th grade, I can't keep starving, I become bulimic. Weight over the next 10 years or so will range between 125 and 165 pounds. Weight loss is VERY difficult. Age 13 or 14, I discover my first chin hair - or rather, my brother discoves it for me. Another embarrassing event... Never had regular periods through my teens/early 20s. Most doctors - and believe me, I went to a lot of doctors - blamed it on being young or the eating disorder. I first noticed my hair was thin at the temples in 11th or 12th grade. I shed a lot in high school but it never seemed to result in noticable balding. I continued shedding up until I learned about PCOS and how to really treat it. Facial hair and under-belly-button hair worsened through college. Inner thigh hair/bikini jungle made summers and bathing suits a nightmare. (Hair explained as "Some women are just hairier than others.") Didn't learn of PCOS until I was 23. By then the "It's normal for young girls to have irregular periods" line was wearing thin, I was over my eating disorder for the most part, and I KNEW other women weren't hairy like me! It took a while top find a doc willing to try me on glucophage, but I did. A year and a half later, I was much improved. 6 months after that, I am much relapsed, and not 100% sure why. Facial hair not a problem due to laser, but periods gone again and hair loss out of control... So that's the age-related progression of my PCOS.
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