I've struggled with my energy levels my entire life! And now just finding out there is a reason for it, is kinda nice. I've had people make horrible comments to me about being lazy because I just didn't have any energy!
I will def try the herbs that you mentioned. I'll pick one and try and see if it works. I've spent the last few days reading through all the posts, every spare moment I get. I noticed a lot of people take different types of vitamins, herbs, and supplements. I want to try them all to see if they work for me. But I know that it will take time to see how each thing effects.
I've also read the new studies that say vitamins don't work. That people depend on them too much. I don't really know what to believe in that area and want to try it for myself.
When I came home from China, I visited my parents, because my dad was sick. And my mom owns a bakery. Worse thing ever. And I had no idea how much it effected me until this month. The South Beach Diet is a lot of protein. The first two weeks you can't eat any fruit, no carbs, no grains and no sugars. Mostly just meat and veggies. I don't like Pork very much, so I've always tried fairly hard to stay away from it. So I stick mostly to chicken and fish. I eat alot of nuts. I love pistachios. I'm not drinking any milk. We can eat cheese.
But if I can find something that is better for me, more fitted for PCOS those are the foods I will stick to. I'm just learning. I've been researching. My father is pre-diabetic also. So I have been cooking for my family and he is off his meds because of the way I have been cooking. So I know I must be doing something right.
I've always been a really happy person until everything went really screwy. So it was just so odd to struggle like that. Does stress usually effect PCOS worse? I'm guessing stress might effect the pituitary gland. I'm studying all these new things... didn't really pay attention well in my health classes in high school. lol
I noticed that there were alot of things that effected me in China. Because China's diet is so different from American's it really worked for me. But I could also tell what made me sick.
When I gained most of my weight, it was during this past summer. It was so hot and we were given all the fruit we could possibly eat. Some days me and my friends would get a watermelon and a spoon and eat it.... and that would be our meal.... an entire watermelon. As well as, other fruit. My doctor blamed me and told me that I must have been over eating when I was in China. But I swore up and down I wasn't. In fact, I was eating veggies, fruit, and rice. Nothing changed except that I started eating more fruit and more rice because it make you feel cooler in the summer. But my doctor kept telling me no no.... I must have been emotionally eating and not realizing it.
Thank you for replying. I will try the tea too for the cramps. I found this time that I am passing a lot of clots. Which is different from the periods I've had before. My mom said she used to pass a lot of clots during her periods and she said it's most likely because I haven't had a period for so long. My last period was over four months ago. And the last period I had was lite.... I never thought maybe that was the reason I was cramping. When the cramping gets the worse, I took some meds for it. But if tea will work then I would rather do that. i've been drinking alot of water because I heard that helps as well, but hasn't worked for me so far.
Thanks again for the info! It's been a fairly stressful month. My doctor was suprised when she first diagnosed me with PCOS. She said, most women cry when they are diagnosed. I didn't. I think I was in shock. The shock has worn off and I'm just trying to learn what the best kind of lifestyle is for me and know it in detail. Because I'll have to make adjustments to it once I move back to China and it's not going to be easy but that is my ultimate goal... that and taking myself enough naturally so I can get off the bc. But right now I would rather not go off it, I really want to be able to have children and if this is the easy fix until I can learn to control it on my own, I'll take it. If it means it will help even a tiny bit. |