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reformed overeater...frustrated with doctors and pcosFrom: Regina (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:19:53 -0500 (CDT)
All the rude advice of these rightous (I know, not spelled right) doctors makes me so angry... When I was diagnosed with PCOS, my doctors kept sending me to gynocologists (no endos...I didn't know that I should go to one either) and my gynos told me that if I lost wieght, the PCOS would go away (apparently that's a load of malarkey). When I finally heard about metformin I started bringing published studies about PCOS mentioning met as a treatment to my doctors...they wouldn't prescribe it. I went through five doctors who wouldn't prescribe it before I found one that would and that makes me angry too, just because I'm not a doctor doesn't make me stupid...I have access to the same medical journals and published knowledge that they do. One doctor looked at me as if I was insane, he said, "metformin is used to treat diabetes....you have a reproductive problem"..and he brushed me off. I'm coming from a little different place than a lot of the women here. I have been an overeater since I was a child....I've tried all the diets (including atkins) with wieght loss followed by even more wieght gain. Two years ago my sister gave me a book by a woman named Geneen Roth called "Feeding the Hungry Heart" I've made so much progress with the help of geneen's books. I no longer overeat. I eat when I'm hungry and stop when I'm full. For me, this is a big accomplishment and it has taken me three years of work to achieve it. I just started the met 2 months ago, bc pills one month ago, and I'm not losing wieght yet...kind of staying where I am. It's a little discouraging....but I'm wandering and I digress....so many people look at someone who is overwieght and they automatically see an overeater (just in my case, it used to be true). They think that if you just tried harder to control yourself you wouldn't be so fat. For many of us that is not the case because of the PCOS and even for those of us that overeat its still not the case. Overeating is a compulsion, like smoking, drinking, taking drugs...its a defense mechanism that people use to escape from feeling the pain of living ....and it makes me so angry that no doctor I ever went to tried to send me to therapy to deal with the PROBLEM (emotional) instead of the symptom (overwieght/overeating)...If I had come to them with anorexia they would have done everything in their power to help....I would have been hospitalized and counseled, but becuase I'm fat I was ignored and my problems were just brushed off as laziness, stupidity, lack of self control. Do you think that an anorexic person is lazy, stupid, lacks self control? No, you think...gee.. this person has severe emotional problems....they need help, love, counseling....and we're in the same boat! just the other end of the spectrum!....well I just had to vent becuase I'm frustrated about people's attitudes (mostly doctors). And finally, after I've done all this work with my eating disorder, I've realized that I've got another hurdle to wieght loss...PCOS. I worry that if I try adjust my eating to low-carb that I'll start up with that diet/binge mentality again and screw up all the good work I've done.....I guess I'll start slow and work on from there.... I know that my writing can be a little bit splintered, but I hope y'all can get the gist of my message...and I'm glad I found a group of people from whom I can find support with the PCOS even though most of you aren't overeaters like me. It's nice to hear of the experiences of so many people that are so similar to mine and I just wanted to say thanks to every person who has posted.
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