PCOS Messages for March, 2003: Re: cently Dx with PCOS

Re: cently Dx with PCOS

From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 27 Mar 2003 21:03:44 -0600 (CST)

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No no, you've got it backwards - now that you've been diagnosed, your life is finally about to START! Living with PCOS when you don't know what is going on, that's the hard part. living with PCOS once you know you've got this condition and know how to treat it, you feel like you can do something about it. And, of course, you can. It will only get better from here on out.

Not sure where you've read that weight loss helps PCOS symptoms, but that's either incredibly incorrect or reaaaallly outdated information. Many women, like 50% of women, with PCOS do not have the weight issue. Being at an average weight doesn't help their symptoms, and it likely won't cure yours. The weight itself is one of the symptoms of PCOS, not a cause of it.

The best thing to do, at least the most effective by almost all accounts, is to lower and stabilize insulin levels. I think most women, at least here, do this with medication; many do it with a low carb diet and excercise, some have other techniques too. But that seems the main thing in controlling problems like the facial hair, as well as protecting you from further problems down the road.

Read through this board, check out the PCOS Association at http://www.pcosupport.org, look for articles about PCOS places like inciid.org, and just type "PCOS" into any search engine. Take every website you see with a grain of salt (some sites, like medical journal sites for example, are more reliable than others!) but there is a TON of current info out there. Hope that helps you find at least some of your answers!

At Thu, 27 Mar 2003, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: >
>I am 26 and recently found out I have PCOS it feels as if life is over,
>I have just about every symptom that is listed ... The weight the
>facial hair name it, its there. I've recently read two books on this
>condition and it seems like the only way for the symptoms to to get
>better is to lose weight. The thing i hate more is the excess hair its
>like being a prisoner in your own skin. I hate to talk about this but
>its now a big part of my life and I need to make life altering changes.
>How do I start ?

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