Re: formed overeater...frustrated with doctors and pcos
From: Janet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:04:21 -0500 (CDT)
HI regina,
I wish your story was unique. Unfortunately, its not. So many doctors
are still clueless about PCOS and how to treat it. I dont suppose the
first 4 doctors you went to refunded your money because they didnt know
what they were talking about(LOL)???You mentioned that you have an
eating disorder. Are you aware of something call "carb addiction"?
Eating proccessed carbs like sugar and white bread can actually make you
feel hungry. When we eat carbohydrates our bodies send a message from
the brain to the pancreas to make insulin to convert the food into
energy. Because processed carbs are are so refined, they digest too
quickly for the insuln to convert to energy. The carbs are stored as
fat. The insulin is elevated in our bloodstreams sending a message back
to the brain telling us that we still need food. Then the cycle just
repeates it self.
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Janet Heller
At Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Regina wrote:
>
>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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Email always welcome
Janet at JanetHeller@msn.com
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