Emotional Orchid

Hello there,

You'll notice my name or at least the very first word; Emotional. This was one of the first and most annoying signs of my PCOS as a pre-pubescent teenager at the age of 10...errr..child then. I wasn't even a teen yet and I had already gotten my first visit from 'Aunt Flow'. Not only that I had breasts, forming hips and curves and then...the weight. The weight came on so quickly my body had hardly any time to adjust properly.

As a child I was raised out in the boonies, sticks, BFE, middle of no-where..you know all the names for it. We lived in a small town that was full of gossip, noise, but you better believe if you needed something, the town was ready to help! Farms, cotton, tobacco and corn were the surrounding agriculture (along with 7 churches in a town of 500.). We had an actual butcher and a small grocery store because...well no one needed a Harris teeter or Lowes. We had farms. So I was raised on fresh veggies, meat and fruits! I was by far NOT a picky eater...when I did eat that was.

So as you can imagine it was a real shocker to go from a skinny little girl to someone that was in the third grade, weighed more than anyone else, had breasts that were a 'C' cup and mother nature was reeking her havoc on my face and in my body. I was full of hormones and at the time I believed no one could understand my pain. My mother thought it was weird at how fast I developed, the weight gain without changing my extremely lean and healthy diet (I was also a soccer kid), and my hormones were all the 'rage'...literally. She took me to several doctors and they all said the same thing "Oh its just puberty".

Needless to say this never changed. My moods never improved. I was moody -all- the time. Hostile, happy, sad, excited, hyper, angry, depressed...and at all hours of the day without warning, without reason. I went nearly 10 years without knowing about PCOS or what was wrong with me. I was on medications; prozac and Effexor XR, along with birth control for a few years. Prozac made me numb, Effexor made my moods less extreme but nothing really worked.

So finally at the age of 19 my mother says to me "I don't know what else. You need to talk to your Doctor because this isn't normal". I was reluctant. Why would I want to go over all of my less than thrilling teen years with someone again, and no-one's got it right yet? But I gave in, and told her the long detailed story. First thing she asks the medical student in the room with me was "What do you think it is?" with a slight smirk on her face. The girl says "Sounds like Polycystic Ovarian Syndrom to me" and Cynthia Young MD replied "Bingo".

For the last year I've been on numerous medications; Spirolactone, Zoloft, Depakote, Xanax, Tri-Cyclen, Topamax and something else...it was a blood pressure medication that blocked some sort of hormone I was making.

I'm 210lb and gaining... I hate it. My moods are still stupid and I'm just...fed up. I know I can't give up. But I'd really like to wake up, feel beautiful, feel calm, and be able to at least pull off 'semi normal' for once.

And this is my story.

By the way I'm new. Hehehee

LilBitMagoo

Just wanted to say hi and welcome to sc

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Eva37

welcome to sc

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PCOS, LOCAH, Lichen Planus, IBS, HS,alopecia - raised bp/ cholesteral. Wheat and dairy intollerance Meds: Spiro, Bendrofluazide, Amlodopine, Simvastatin, Met, Prednisolone, Colefac, multi vits,

Me - 41, hubby 36 son 11. Married 14 years

She is buffeted by the wind, but she does not sink.



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