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Re: formed overeater...frustrated with doctors and pcos
From: Regina (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:05:11 -0500 (CDT)
I've considered carb addiction, but since I almost never at in response
to hunger (usually strong emotion: boredom, lonelyness, sadness,
happiness), I didn't feel that carb addiction was something for me to
worry about too much at that stage. When I was low carb dieting a few
years ago, I still ate when I wasn't hungry...just lost wieght anyway
because you can't absorb fat if you don't eat sugar. However, I will be
decreasing the carbs in my diet, so we'll see how that works out when I
don't have a skewed food perspective!
At Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Janet wrote:
>
>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.
>
>--
>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.
>
>--
>Email always welcome
>Janet at JanetHeller@msn.com
>
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