How much does POCS effect your everyday life?

dreamer5545 · 05-01-2008, 03:06 PM

Hi ladies! I have been thinking about this for a while and I wanted to know what you think about it: How does PCOs effect your everyday life??

I know that alot of the cysters in here are either in high school or college and live very busy lives. I am a college student as well. I was just wondering how many of the cysters in here think that having PCOS has a huge impact on their everyday lives, what they do, who they associate themselves with, who they date, who they let come into their lives!

I personally am alot more comfortable with letting people know that I have PCOS. When first diagnosed in May of 2006, i thought that having PCOS was the end of the world and that i would be this big loser forever and no one would want to be around me. My whole life was focused on PCOS. Now, i see it as something that I have but it isnt the only part of me. There are soo many things that I have done that I never thought I could. I chose to not let PCOS effect who I am, my dreams and my relationships with others!

Let me know how you feel!

lizzy12 · 05-01-2008, 04:06 PM

besides my wieght problems and not having periods at all- never have had one-it dosent effect me. .

stacy_xo · 05-03-2008, 11:32 AM

It really depends on the symptoms you have.
PCOS has caused me to gain a lot of weight and have to take care of unwanted hair. It makes me really embarassed.
Im in college, so when I go out I tend to try to wear baggy clothes to hide my tummy and pull my hair down to my chin to hide anything I didnt get. Im so paranoid.

LoLo32382 · 05-03-2008, 11:46 AM

The weight is probably the hardest thing to deal with for me. I'm tired of wearing baggy clothes or boys clothes. I'm not large enough to wear most women's plus size clothes, but not small enough to wear traditional women's sizes. It's so hard to find clothes. I hate looking frumpy all the time.

It has also taken its toll at school (I'm struggling to finish college) and work. The Met still makes me sick all the time. Mornings are the worst. It's hard to get your day started when you have super fun bouts of diarrhea and ralphing.

Onward we trudge!

lynaeducky · 05-08-2008, 11:04 PM

For me it depends on my pain each day. I lost weight but want to lose more my weight keeps changing all the time. I haven't bled since I was 16 so I think that my symptoms are more annoying then anything else. Sometimes when I feel bad I stay home and don't want to do much.