Hi everyone,
I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone. I will have been married to a wonderful man for 7 years in March and we have a beautiful 5 year old daughter. I was diagnosed with PCOS 6 years ago, but I have had the classic symptoms since I was 13. Like most of you my doctors dismissed this as being normal. All I ever heard was that if I would just lose weight that I would be fine. I desperately tried everything known to man to lose weight and nothing worked except the extreme low carb diet. But then I gained it back just as soon as the first piece of white bread hit my lips. I have had a mustache since puberty (black hair of course) around the age of 17 I started noticing hair on my chin and I developed the skin tags on my thighs and under my arms I also weighed about 190lbs. so my mother took me to the dr. and of course he told me to lose weight, but I never could. About 8 years ago I read an article in a Family Circle magazine about PCOS and tore it out and carried it with me to the dr. and he said that it wasn't a real disorder and that all of it could be solved once again if I would just lose the weight. Then he gave me a copy of the book Sugar Busters and told me to follow it or I would be dead by the time I was 40. Needless to say I fired him and found an internal med. dr. who knew about PCOS and what she didn't know she found out for me. So like most of you I am just dealing with the maintenance side of things now. I have really enjoyed your site and all of the posts, it is just nice to not be alone in this.
Good for you for finding a new doctor. Looking forward to seeing you around.
Angie
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Hi everyone,
I just wanted to introduce myself to everyone. I will have been married to a wonderful man for 7 years in March and we have a beautiful 5 year old daughter. I was diagnosed with PCOS 6 years ago, but I have had the classic symptoms since I was 13. Like most of you my doctors dismissed this as being normal. All I ever heard was that if I would just lose weight that I would be fine. I desperately tried everything known to man to lose weight and nothing worked except the extreme low carb diet. But then I gained it back just as soon as the first piece of white bread hit my lips. I have had a mustache since puberty (black hair of course) around the age of 17 I started noticing hair on my chin and I developed the skin tags on my thighs and under my arms I also weighed about 190lbs. so my mother took me to the dr. and of course he told me to lose weight, but I never could. About 8 years ago I read an article in a Family Circle magazine about PCOS and tore it out and carried it with me to the dr. and he said that it wasn't a real disorder and that all of it could be solved once again if I would just lose the weight. Then he gave me a copy of the book Sugar Busters and told me to follow it or I would be dead by the time I was 40. Needless to say I fired him and found an internal med. dr. who knew about PCOS and what she didn't know she found out for me. So like most of you I am just dealing with the maintenance side of things now. I have really enjoyed your site and all of the posts, it is just nice to not be alone in this.
Hope to get to know all of you wonderful ladies!
Hey there Emma,
Way to go on finding a new doctor! Im just wondering but do you live anywhere near Greenville, SC? Because I'm just wondering what doctor you have?
Newbie from South Carolina 
