Originally Posted by thegumbiecat

I wrote this long thing but decided not to post it.

I'm 28... I have PCOS and minor minor type 2 diabetes...
I'm on 1500mg of metformin a day, and I'm taking some cinnamon bark, a multi-vitamin, and some calcium/magnesium supplements.

It's been a really long battle with this... When i was 18 a gyno told me my hormone imbalance would be "to hard to pin down" and when my blood pressure spiked to dangerous levels on birth control she just took me off it and told me to deal.

So I've been dealing for 10 years... It turns out my university where I'm doing grad work has a PCOS specialist who comes through once a month, and I was sent to her after a GP noticed my symptoms (I went in cause of discoloring skin and no period for 3 months), and tons of blood work later...here I am. ((I will say the student health care at the University of Houston is awesome, my blood panels were only 10 bucks a pop)) I also am having trouble with extremely high blood pressure... and terrible fatigue.

I started on the metformin in May...I'm eating significantly less fast food (I'm in grad school, what can i say?), and I've been doing yoga in combination with this dance work out video... I picked yoga cause I hadn't worked out really in years and I needed something that would strengthen and wasn't going to just kill me....I'm trying to adopt life style habits here and not just band aide to a gushing wound (no fad diets). The sad part to me is that I'm not really losing much weight and that's really really depressing. But I'm dealing with it....my Nordic/Germanic ancestry has kind of dictated that I will be a short and stocky person no matter what.

I'm still having a lot of exhaustion.... but the head aches and such from the high blood pressure have gone down.

The infertility isn't really a big deal to me, I've put my career at the forefront of my life, my whole life (Probably compensating for not being "pretty"), and I don't feel like i could support or care for a child in the way that is necessary, and i DO NOT want to argue with anymore over this. I'm just being honest. Some people just aren't meant to be parents.

My goal is weight loss, more energy, and controlling my diabetes... Even when i was a teenager and worked out like 2-3 hours a day, my 5ft 4 frame never dropped below 185lbs... (I'm now at about 230), and I've pretty much given up on the idea of "thin" and I'm trying to invent a new idea of "healthy" where i take care of myself.

anyways, any advice is welcome. hugs all around for those of you fighting the fertility aspect to, I'd e-mail you mine if i could.


Oh and if my boyfriend brings home another cheese pizza I'm going to hit him with each slice individually.