Acne is come and go for me....I get very oily skin. I also get dark patches of skin between my bbs, and get a dark line from my belly button down......along with body/facial hair....GRRRRR
cause ever since I've been diagnosed with pcos... i feel like my looks have suffered more than the frequent heart palpatations and a little tummy bloating.
When I was diagnosed with PCOS, and I started BCP, my looks changed A LOT. Before, I had a very thick neck and very pronounced lip hair. When my hormones got a little more stabile, my neck thinned out, and that terrible inner tube of tummy fat started to move down. As in it used to start right below my bust, but then it got smaller and worked to the middle. As for acne, I'm not sure. And as for paleness, I'm pale anyway so I didn't notice a difference .
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thanks for your responses... it seems like with pcos everyone has dif symptoms... when i first got on bcp i noticed an immediate change for the better... but then i went off for a little while and things got really bad but I didn't know that it was due to pcos until 3 years later. Now i think that my hormones are more out of whack and it'll take a while to get better...
I should've introduced myself as a newbie cause I am and I just want to say I'm learning sooooooooo much on this board. Thanks to all of you for your tips, ideas and questions.
I was a 36-26-36 woman with flawless skin and lustrous hair. After PCOS had it's way with me I developed a thick neck, terrible cystic acne, excessive hirstutism, dark patches on the back of my neck and in my groin, and skin tags. What is especially frustrating is that from having diabetes since childhood, I always managed my diet and weight carefully. It's disheartning when discipline and exerscise do not produce a visible result. I have thyroid issues now, which opened up a whole new can of worms. BCP (Yasmin), Metformin, and Aldactane helped with some of the issues. Acne is not a problem, skin tags are less frequent, and the athrancans nigerias or dark patches are much lighter. Hirstutism, weight in the middle, and excessive muscularity still are.
I couldn't be on BCP, I had awful bleeding that had me in the ER (a long time ago) overnight, I went on NuvaRing for a while, but I ended up finding out that it burned my cervix...My weight seems to go up and down every other year. I loose and gain. And it's always been that way, even since the DX and even before that.
But I also think a lot of "feeling crappy" is a PCOS mindset. This problem rapes our feminine wiles......it strips us of being thin, pretty, and happy! It really does suck some days!
I completely agree. Sometimes I get really sad that I don't have that glowing skin and big hair like b4... but I know things will get better with time. It's just the process of it that really sucks. In any case...patience patience patience is something I think I have to learn from this.
I was never a beauty queen, but looks wasn't something that I had to worry about. NOW, I'm 40 with tons of skin problems like darkened lips, dark patches here and there as well as black acne scars, I am brown skinned. I had glowing, clear skin and though I was always a size 14-16 I felt alright. PCOS basically turns you into a MAN!
I was never a beauty queen, but looks wasn't something that I had to worry about. NOW, I'm 40 with tons of skin problems like darkened lips, dark patches here and there as well as black acne scars, I am brown skinned. I had glowing, clear skin and though I was always a size 14-16 I felt alright. PCOS basically turns you into a MAN!
I TOTALLY agree I was soo small and had great skin but then PCOS came and everything came tumbling down
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I started hating the way I look around the same time PCOS started (15 yrs old). Of course I wasn't diagnosed until I was 24 since I had regular AF. All of the nagging and awful symptoms were just blown off and ignored (you'll grow out of the acne, you're just hairier than most girls due to our heritage, you're not trying hard enough to lose weight. (I was a varsity long distance runner in HS, the heaviest girl on my team). Dandruff? Had it for years and nothing ever helped. Didn't know that was part of the package until last week thanks to this board. My femininity just dwindled away and after a while I guess I just gave up. Tried some drugs for a while but stopped when my insurance lapsed.
Now I'm 28 and I have bad acne all over my back, my face is a constant struggle with pimples. I remember feeling so ashamed a few weeks ago when I wore a bathing suit bc I am the only one with pimples on my back!!! Not to mention the thick hair all over my legs that grows back before I even leave a pool party. I gained 25 lbs over the past few years and now my symptoms are worse, so I did this to myself. and I just want to be proud of my body and not hide anymore. I am so tired of hiding.
Anyone experience change in their appearance? 
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