Depressing & interesting at the same time.
As really there is no clear solution.
To start with i do not want a solution to my PCOS to get pregnant, as i am 21 and too young, but my moods/anxiety/depression is what i cant stand, and i will want to have children one day.
How it was/is for me
Never regular periods (unless on contraceptive pill. Recently stopped taking as feeling like that too was messing with my hormones
Anxiety & Panic Attacks since 16, was on Lexapro (antidepressant) for the last year, but snapped and stopped as not wanting to be drugged up, just want to be me.
I guess i have the opposite problem as alot of the ladies here that want to get pregnant.
I dont want to take hormonal contraception (messes me up)
I dont want to be pregnant
I dont want to feel anxious
But if i go on metformin, would prob increase my chance of getting pregnant.
My weight i am most of the time ok with, i am more scared of the chance of getting Diabeties as my mother was just diagnosed.
In a way we are lucky to be able to put our feelings and symptons to a name, many women before us wouldnt have been able to.
As for solutions to PCOS, when i was first diagnose, i was so scared, and went on a no carb diet for 3 months in which i lost 15-20Kg, but lets face it thats not very realisitc.
I am now also a vegetarian and if i tried to do that now, i would be eating what....salad all day.
It is an upward struggle, because as i was told by a doctor if anyone else was eating what i ate they would be loosing weight, not gaining it. And thats it, healthy eating to other people doesnt apply to people with PCOS, so people look at you like ohh she must eat junk food at the time, well its just not true.
Doctors no nothing, and that is really sad, considering how many people this seems to be affecting.
We need to evoke change in the medical community.
Alot of doctors dont take it seriously because they get alot of people come in that think they have PCOS, but actually dont.
I dont know what to do anymore.
My hormones are horrible, and i hate it, but i hate putting my boyfriend through my horrible moods more.
To voice what i think we are all thinking
ITS NOT FAIR!!!! |