I have a personal PCOS/Health blog now. It is private, so if you want to read it you will need to message me here with your email address so I can authorize you to read it.
I am happy to allow you here at Soul Cysters to read my blog since you all know where I am coming from. The only thing I ask is that if you are authorized you need to post at least one comment on the blog. The reason I ask this is pure paranoia, I'll admit. I made it a private blog because I am tired to people hurting me, though usually unintentionally, in their responses to my condition. As you will see if you read it (first blog post, specifically) I have decided to retain my right to silence.
I hope that some of you will be interested, but if not, don't sweat it. I just wanted to let you know it exists, on the off chance you care
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Alena Belleque
DX: 12/21/2007
Metformin: 1500mg
Levothyroxin 75mg
Prenatal Vitamin/Cranberry/Claritin/Vitamin "C"/OMEGA3 Fish Oil
Raw Foods Diet: Weight loss goal 100lbs (93 to go)
TTC: 15 months/5 month break w. bcp/3 months currently
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I'd like to read you're blog, I'm all up for anything that make more people aware to PCOS and gives ignorant people an insight on what us girlies go through!! email - kjlburrough@hotmail.com
Kayleigh xx
__________________ Diagnosed - Nov 2007 Suspected since 2005!! Metformin 1500mg Me - 22 DF - 22 Been together for 7 years TTC # 1 BFP!! 14/10/2008 - Due June 09
I am interested in viewing your blog because I am deeply and sincerely interested in learning more about what others like me are going through because I feel so depressed and alone in this neverending fight for control of my emotions and body. my email is tlguinn@gmail.com
Tarah
Great Blog Alena, I can't understand why people would write bad comments about it? A blog is supposed to be about what someone's feelings, you've clearly mentioned in your title 'PCOS' so why would someone slate someone's experiences with an illness, People like that really bug me!! grr!!
Brill Blog though, can really relate to your writings......xx
__________________ Diagnosed - Nov 2007 Suspected since 2005!! Metformin 1500mg Me - 22 DF - 22 Been together for 7 years TTC # 1 BFP!! 14/10/2008 - Due June 09
No one has written bad things about my in response to my blog - the blog is new, in response to the bad reception telling people about my illness has received.
It really is something I do not understand either, how people can be so nasty. One of my "friends" seems to be convinced that I am just fat and lazy, and that if I will exercise religiously like she does (she works for Curves and lives and breathes them) she thinks all my problems will magically disappear. It was terrible, actually...
I turned 22 on the 10th of this month, and my husband and three of our friends and I went to Applebee's to celebrate (the above mentioned young woman was one of the three). While there the subject of the gym Curves for Women came up (a play on that gym was on the Simpsons, playing on one of the tvs in the building). My DH jokingly said that one day he'll start one for men and call it "Chunks, the gym for men." The two guys with us thought it was hysterical, as did I... my friend's response was a disapproving tsking sound, followed by the comment, "The gym's name is supposed to represent what you want to GAIN, not what you want to get RID of!"
I try very hard to avoid conflict, but I just couldn't help myself! I said, "Well, I guess I don't need to go to Curves since I already have plenty!" She said, "Well, there are the 'right' kind of curves, and the -" (she stopped herself). Then she followed with, "Anyway, chunks are gross. You shouldn't have chunks." I said, "Well, I happen to love my chunky husband, and think he's super sexy!"
I thought for sure she'd drop it then, but NOOOOOO...
"Whatever you say - chunks and chub are unattractive and gross."
I was so furious, I lost my appetite and just kind of tolerated the rest of the evening with her. In retrospect, I shouldn't have let her get away with it, even though it would have meant making a scene in front of the men. No one has the right to say such disparaging things about another person, and especially not about another person to their spouse!
So, it's people like her that I am protecting my privacy from, mostly. It's also people like the man in my church who made the "funny" comment that "there is no better birth control than that!" when told that I may have trouble having babies because this illness makes me anovulatory (I didn't mean to say so much, he wouldn't drop it).
I have just decided that I need to be more discriminatory when sharing about this issue. I was very open at first, because my dx marked the end of ten years of people thinking - and telling me - that I was crazy, as well as ten years of strange, upsetting and painful symptoms without an explanation, and I wanted everyone to rejoice with me! I was naive.
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Alena Belleque
DX: 12/21/2007
Metformin: 1500mg
Levothyroxin 75mg
Prenatal Vitamin/Cranberry/Claritin/Vitamin "C"/OMEGA3 Fish Oil
Raw Foods Diet: Weight loss goal 100lbs (93 to go)
TTC: 15 months/5 month break w. bcp/3 months currently
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I know what you are going through. For the past 6 years I have had really bad health problems and went to so many doctors. My family and friends thought I was a baby and needed to "toughen up." I am a believer so I prayed and prayed, but nothing happened. Finally, after 6 years, I got a diagnosis and I am trying to put my life back together. I think people should not criticize others because they don't wear our shoes. My doctor said that PCOS is a complicated illness and would not go away. I thought I would cry right there.
Now that it's been a few weeks, I decided to try a positive attitude, which is working. I also have stopped discussing my health with friends and family because they don't understand. I am hoping to make some friends on this site who truly understand what I'm going through and accept me.
I could totally empathize with your story about how people think you choose to be bigger and that you can control yourself with diet and exercise....PCOS isn't as simple as that, especially since its root cause is insulin resistance, but people just don't understand, so I've stopped trying to explain it also. It feels so nice to be in this community where people DO understand and know!
Thanks Alena! I can totally relate with wanting to feel normal and just better! I'm sure that your dreams of motherhood will manifest in perfect diving timing.
p.s. let me know if it turns out that you do have Celiac....the company I work for offers publications on GF eating and GF shopping and you may be interested in checking them out.
I think blogging is theraputic for the writer and reader. Let's us know that we all share some of the same human expiriences. I would like to read your blog. tia_mosley@yahoo.com. Thanks!!!
My PCOS Blog 
I just wanted to let you know it exists, on the off chance you care 
