Well let's see…there's the mustache and overall hairy disgustingness, the huge tummy that makes me look like a pregnant man, FEELING like a pregnant man, worrying at the age of 16 that i'll never get the chance to actually get pregnant, and the depression and low self-esteem partly caused by the other symptoms…so yeah I'd say PCOS affects my everyday life a bit….
sorry i forgot the constant panic that my period has randomly decided it's a good time to start, meaning wearing mini pads a lot (aka feeling like i'm wearing a diaper) and avoiding light-colored pants. and then there's the worrying it's going to last a month when it does come, as i've heard some cysters talk about happening. soooo much fun!
Let's see, obesity and hard weight loss weigh in huge in my life (No pun intended). Then, there's the chronic muscle pain, hair loss, hair growth where it's not supposed to be, holding weight around my stomach, insulin resistance, and general tiredness.
I was on Metformin for a while, but I stopped taking it because it made me sick every day. But I took it for long enough so that it could do some major damage to my body. I scar a lot easier now, and I can't eat half of what I used to be able to eat. And after all of this my parents want me to go back on the medication even after I was able to manage my sugar level all summer (And losing weight to boot).
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being over weight bothers me alot. the hair is also a huge thing for me i am starting to not worry about it so much. i dont know if this is part of pcos but i am just extremly emotional i feel i have no control over them i can cry over nothing at all. depression meds havent helped much they do make me a little more numb to what people say to me. i dont know how much longer i can take it. if anyone has any info if this is a symptom of pcos, if they experice this to or, any advice it would be greatly apreciated.
being over weight bothers me alot. the hair is also a huge thing for me i am starting to not worry about it so much. i dont know if this is part of pcos but i am just extremly emotional i feel i have no control over them i can cry over nothing at all. depression meds havent helped much they do make me a little more numb to what people say to me. i dont know how much longer i can take it. if anyone has any info if this is a symptom of pcos, if they experice this to or, any advice it would be greatly apreciated.
depression is actually a part of PCOS, and could potentially be caused by BCPs or some other form of birth control or medicine that you are taking. My first gyno blatantly told me "the pill doesn't cause depression" but it was making me depressed and I had never been depressed before, so I went off it and the depression went away. I was going through exactly what you were and the rest of my family was not that sensitive to it--they would yell at me for pill-induced behavior!!
you are totally not alone! and feel free to talk to me if you need a shoulder to cry on!
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im always depressed. i hate my weight and no matter what i do i cant lose it. i dont have periods and wen im induced on provera i normally end up in hospital from having seizures because i lose too much blood...the hair is really annoying...everything to with it...its great!i always knew i'd have a crappy life...this proves it..
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...20 Year Old PCOS Sufferer...
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... Started met 500mg 14th June 2009 ...
... 15lbs lost so far on met 2000mg 26th Aug 2009 ...
Everyday between taking medicine and everything else that happens I can hardly take my mind off it. I don't go through all the things most people on here do but the main one I deal with is zero enegry. I just started college this semester and have had to miss two class days already. My mom has already start asking me if I thought I could even handle going to school. I just don't know what to do. Sometimes it just hard to get out of bed... I just want to be normal.
Well...everyday, twice a day when I swallow those big nasty smelling Metformin pills. Then there is the 15 minutes (at least) I spend in front of the mirror, each morning, plucking hairs from my chin. Not to mention, all the time I spend waxing and shaving...
My weight and how its hard to lose it and how some of the ppl at the work talk about it. The hair and how I gotta take time and do something with it. How I get deppressed and dont know what to do
I'd say it affects me big time. I've been jumping from pill to pill because none of them have completely been able to stop my period since the first one I was on, which caused me to flood and stay out of school.
I have upper lip hair, and had it since 5th grade (I was picked on by this boy who called me 'moustachio') and I still have to wax it at least once a week.
I have so much pain in the area where the ovaries are I feel like crying, I feel horribly fat and hate having my picture taken, my periods can last over a month and still be near-flooding every day, and I'm much more irritable. There's no minute where I'm not thinking about it.
I feel ya, J Sister...plucking those dang chin hairs is a trial... though, because I've done it so much, it mostly doesn't hurt (like the uni-brow) and I can do it in front of the computer, because i can feel the hair with my tweezers.
Not too much, actually. I've always been overweight, so I've developed a thick but mostly transparent skin against that and have become the "funny fat chick".
it actually has affected me pretty badly since my diagnosis.
depression has hit extremely hard, its always been with me, but now more than ever.
i've seperated myself from most of my friends, my family is nothing to me. im in a constant daze all the time.
when people ask me whats wrong with me and i tell them its PCOS and i have a tumor, i always feel ashamed after, i guess i have to get used to having PCOS. its not my fault i have it, even if my mother thinks it must be.
the only thing thats been getting better, is my relationship with my bf, we've gotten so much closer. he is litterally the reason why i smile and why im happy when i am. he's helped me deal with everything thats been going on. were actually getting married next month :]
i think in due time, PCOS will be a thing that i will just deal with and i wont revolve my mind on it.
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Mine affects me all the time, hair growth, im not overweight im actually anormal weight, but hair growth really bothers me...ona less frequent scale when i do get my period which is like twice a year...i get blood clots and the pain is so unbearable even tylenol 3 doesnt make me feel better i cry and cry till i pass out. The pain i unberable, it gets super bad, and then gets better, but im still incapacitated for a few days, sometimes ithink about calling an ambulance but i know they cant do anything for me...so those times it is realllly bad...sometimes i get the abdominal pain without the actual period...it makes life difficult...
for me the unwanted hair is really killing me. its everywhere and it seems to be getting worse, and worst of all its thick and even with waxing and shaving it comes back if not the next day then the day after =[ ..i feel its affecting my relationship with my boyfriend cause i'm scared to show him the real truth...
its so hard keeping this all inside, there's really no one that i can talk to this about and i feel like my problem can never be solved.. thanks for having this forum
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