i think its genes and was here 200 years ago. just cause they werent overweight doesnt mean no one has ir or pcos. one doesnt have to be overweight to have ir.
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diabetes type 2
fibromyalgia
cts
miagrines
low vit d
bulging disc with disc dengtive disease (mis spell i know lol)
scoloitis
meds im on:
oxycodone for pain
mirena
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Sure, there are many things in the genes but it's recessed until lifestyle or stressors trigger it. In discussing this with my ayurvedic physician and endo, they both say it's a syndrome that is created from lifestyle and stressors. We have a much different lifestyle than we did 200 years ago. I think there could have been tendancies for PCOS, but not full blown like what we have. It's just my opinion and the opinion of those who treat me.
i guess im one who will stick by genes. thou i have had more then one doctor say it to both me and my mother. i have seen signs of pcos years ago in other family members so yes i say genes is where i got it and not lifestyle
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diabetes type 2
fibromyalgia
cts
miagrines
low vit d
bulging disc with disc dengtive disease (mis spell i know lol)
scoloitis
meds im on:
oxycodone for pain
mirena
ambien
yahoo: kissablesweetie50530
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I'm brand new here, but I wanted to throw in my background:
I don't have contact with my mother, but I do know some about her. Her father was Creek, so I guess that makes my mother half. I know that my mother did not have difficulty getting pregnant, but she always struggled with obesity and my father says he heard she had breast lumps and a hysterectomy in her early 30s. My father's side of the family (Belgian/German), also has a history of endocrinological disorders, though no diabetes and they have always been thin.
It is my suspicion that I got it from my mother/mother's side. Knowing as little as I do, it's hard to say for certain.
I do not identify with my mother's ethnicity because I do not identify with my mother - but I have to acknowledge that the history is there. I have told my endocrinologist, and she was very intrigued. Unfortunately, I have no more information to give her.
Before puberty I had never had weight issues and was athletic. I never sat on my butt watching TV I was always outside riding bikes, racing down the street and playing sports. But then puberty hit me at age 9. On my ninth birthday I started menstruation. My mom took my to the doctor because she knew it was odd to start so early. The doctor told her I may have issues with hormones and such later in life but then at that moment I was healthy and nothing was wrong. By the time I was 12 i had a double D cup and a tiny waste. Again doctors said something could be wrong later on but then I was fine. By 16 my periods were so scarce maybe 2 or 3 that year and I first learned I was a perfect statistic for Diabetes and hormone issues. I was showing some unbalance and prescribed BC. By 18 I had gained nearly 60 pounds and then was told I better start getting more active. I come from a family of small women, all under 5' 4 and never weighing more than 140 pounds. My dad is even 5'5 and at his heaviest around 160. I stand 5' 8 and weigh 237lbs. I no longer have periods but maybe once a year and am diabetic since 2002. I am only 27. I am also bipolar so I get energy spurts that sometimes last months and hardly eat or sleep for days and stay constantly moving but still no weight comes off. I find it hard to believe, though told by many professionals and fellow sufferers that PCOS is caused from my lifestyle. What bad lifestyle did a 9 year old girl who was in a gymnastics team and very athletic have? Maybe just maybe we don't hear about this so much from the past because there were less people and we did not have the medicines to treat diabetes or know what it was, so symptoms from PCOS caused death early on. I am a history buff and have read infertility was so much a problem in our ancestors days that girls and women took long lengths and had many superstitions to remain fertile. Infertility and no periods was often thought of as witch craft. So I think it was there and it has been carried down. I wish doctors would stop thinking it is a lifestyle issue and think more along the lines of what can be done to prevent it or find it.
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Hello all! I'm not sure how much of what I have, but I am Haliwa-Saponi Native American, Afro American, and Caucasian. My mother is a half breed; her mother is full blooded Haliwa-Saponi. I know for a fact that mines is hereditary as my mother had a partial hysterectomy when I was only 6 due to her irregular cycles and constant problems. She has a hormonal imbalance and I've inherited her facial hair. We both compare our thinning hairlines often and we both have sugar issues. She is diabetic. Mines hasn't been dx, but I suffer from hypoglycemia.
Anywho...just wanted to say that.
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although the potential to develop pcos is in the genes, it doesn't develop without the right conditions (sedentary lifestyle, high carb diet, bad fats).
some scientists think that the same genes that are related to pcos and diabetes are the same genes that helped people survive in times of less food. having insulin resistance enables the body to store more calories than the average person from the same amount of food. therefore in times of scarcity, people with pcos would be more likely to survive.
a lot of traditional native american diets were low carb (meat, berries, fish). no grains or sugar at all! i know some native people who have had their diabetes go into remission by eating a traditional diet.
I'm one too. Micmac from moms grandmother side. Black foot from mom's dad's side.
Then my dad's side doing geology and found a suprise gg grandfather is dark brown skin and eyed. My ggg grandfather remarried to the nanny! I haven't figured that one out.
Some hair like on my chest belly and chin. More hair than my brothers (hahaha). I pluck my hairs.(I would never tell them that) Acne, why me! I've got cyst and tumors every where. Head aces. I'm close to being over weight.
I exercise like 5-7 days a week. Mostly 7 unless my head-aces drop me to my knees. I just had essure put in so I'll need to take it easy for a week (permanent b-control ) I have 2 kids.
This just showed up all at once after moving to the mountains, around 6500-7000 feet up.
Anyone using the saw palmetto berries?
I'm an enrolled member of the Leech Lake band of Ojibwe in Northern Minnesota. I am Ojibwe on my father's side and Cherokee on my mother's side. I was just diagnosed with PCOS a week ago! Still learning the ropes.
mama2ak~
Well welcome to the hell of pcos, but the friendly site of soulcysters!
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What an awesome thread. My father's family is mixed, but he's 1/2 Eastern Band Cherokee, 1/4 Piegan Blackfeet. My mom has mostly European (German, Welsh) heritage but her grandmother was part Shawnee. Either way, I've ended up with a family history on both sides of type II diabetes. I've always wondered if there was a link between significant Native American heritage and PCOS.
I've always assumed that Native Americans have higher incidence of Type II diabetes because until a couple hundred years ago most tribes had adapted to a diet that rarely if ever included refined sugar and processed grain. It was a good thing that your body started storing during summer as you might need your fat reserves during winter. Nobody is suited the all the processed food we eat these days, but for the most part Native Americans weren't practicing any widespread agriculture so the population was not biologically compatible with the food available after that. (The same way some Asian populations have high incidence of lactose intolerance.)
I'd love to read up on this. Does anyone have links to any articles?
'ello all from Alaska, I'm half Athabascan and I've been diagnosed with PCOS and ENDO and can only find one other relative who had either of those, my younger sister and I are the only ones to have either PCOS or ENDO. My Mom had alot of problems with cysts but not PCOS. My grandmother on Mom's side had 17 kids so there realy wasn't any issue on that side. My Father's side (white/scots) has quite alot of Diabetes but no reproductive issues that we could find.
It is realy frustrating because there is no history in my family and the doctor I'm working with is very ignorant about all of this. His response when I was first diagnosed with ENDO was "have a baby" well 3 yrs ago that was not realy a solution and now that it is a possible solution I am dianosed with PCOS which pretty much makes it impossible because I don't ovulate regularly.
I've been on Metformin for 6 months and my periods are slowly inching into the normal range... I have felt really alone these last couple of months, but I have found you all *YAY*
I am Ojibwe on my father's side and Cherokee on my mother's side. I was just diagnosed with PCOS a week ago! Still learning the ropes. 
I feel amongst friends already!
Alaskan Native 
