I wrote this long thing but decided not to post it.
I'm 28... I have PCOS and minor minor type 2 diabetes...
I'm on 1500mg of metformin a day, and I'm taking some cinnamon bark, a multi-vitamin, and some calcium/magnesium supplements.
It's been a really long battle with this... When i was 18 a gyno told me my hormone imbalance would be "to hard to pin down" and when my blood pressure spiked to dangerous levels on birth control she just took me off it and told me to deal.
So I've been dealing for 10 years... It turns out my university where I'm doing grad work has a PCOS specialist who comes through once a month, and I was sent to her after a GP noticed my symptoms (I went in cause of discoloring skin and no period for 3 months), and tons of blood work later...here I am. ((I will say the student health care at the University of Houston is awesome, my blood panels were only 10 bucks a pop)) I also am having trouble with extremely high blood pressure... and terrible fatigue.
I started on the metformin in May...I'm eating significantly less fast food (I'm in grad school, what can i say?), and I've been doing yoga in combination with this dance work out video... I picked yoga cause I hadn't worked out really in years and I needed something that would strengthen and wasn't going to just kill me....I'm trying to adopt life style habits here and not just band aide to a gushing wound (no fad diets). The sad part to me is that I'm not really losing much weight and that's really really depressing. But I'm dealing with it....my Nordic/Germanic ancestry has kind of dictated that I will be a short and stocky person no matter what.
I'm still having a lot of exhaustion.... but the head aches and such from the high blood pressure have gone down.
The infertility isn't really a big deal to me, I've put my career at the forefront of my life, my whole life (Probably compensating for not being "pretty"), and I don't feel like i could support or care for a child in the way that is necessary, and i DO NOT want to argue with anymore over this. I'm just being honest. Some people just aren't meant to be parents.
My goal is weight loss, more energy, and controlling my diabetes... Even when i was a teenager and worked out like 2-3 hours a day, my 5ft 4 frame never dropped below 185lbs... (I'm now at about 230), and I've pretty much given up on the idea of "thin" and I'm trying to invent a new idea of "healthy" where i take care of myself.
anyways, any advice is welcome. hugs all around for those of you fighting the fertility aspect to, I'd e-mail you mine if i could.
Oh and if my boyfriend brings home another cheese pizza I'm going to hit him with each slice individually.
Cushings is very similar to PCOS and also has those symptoms. Having had Cushings myself, I can tell you the fatigue was one of the first symptoms to tell me something just wasn't right. Please read the links in my siggy for more info and if you think you might have it, definitely look for a doc that has Cushings knowledge - serious knowledge. Cuz they'll rule one or two blood tests out and that's just not right. Like PCOS and other issues, you need more than one or two tests to diagnose. Hang in there!
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I wrote this long thing but decided not to post it.
I'm 28... I have PCOS and minor minor type 2 diabetes...
I'm on 1500mg of metformin a day, and I'm taking some cinnamon bark, a multi-vitamin, and some calcium/magnesium supplements.
It's been a really long battle with this... When i was 18 a gyno told me my hormone imbalance would be "to hard to pin down" and when my blood pressure spiked to dangerous levels on birth control she just took me off it and told me to deal.
So I've been dealing for 10 years... It turns out my university where I'm doing grad work has a PCOS specialist who comes through once a month, and I was sent to her after a GP noticed my symptoms (I went in cause of discoloring skin and no period for 3 months), and tons of blood work later...here I am. ((I will say the student health care at the University of Houston is awesome, my blood panels were only 10 bucks a pop)) I also am having trouble with extremely high blood pressure... and terrible fatigue.
I started on the metformin in May...I'm eating significantly less fast food (I'm in grad school, what can i say?), and I've been doing yoga in combination with this dance work out video... I picked yoga cause I hadn't worked out really in years and I needed something that would strengthen and wasn't going to just kill me....I'm trying to adopt life style habits here and not just band aide to a gushing wound (no fad diets). The sad part to me is that I'm not really losing much weight and that's really really depressing. But I'm dealing with it....my Nordic/Germanic ancestry has kind of dictated that I will be a short and stocky person no matter what.
I'm still having a lot of exhaustion.... but the head aches and such from the high blood pressure have gone down.
The infertility isn't really a big deal to me, I've put my career at the forefront of my life, my whole life (Probably compensating for not being "pretty"), and I don't feel like i could support or care for a child in the way that is necessary, and i DO NOT want to argue with anymore over this. I'm just being honest. Some people just aren't meant to be parents.
My goal is weight loss, more energy, and controlling my diabetes... Even when i was a teenager and worked out like 2-3 hours a day, my 5ft 4 frame never dropped below 185lbs... (I'm now at about 230), and I've pretty much given up on the idea of "thin" and I'm trying to invent a new idea of "healthy" where i take care of myself.
anyways, any advice is welcome. hugs all around for those of you fighting the fertility aspect to, I'd e-mail you mine if i could.
Oh and if my boyfriend brings home another cheese pizza I'm going to hit him with each slice individually.
I feel ya on the weight issue I am currently 5'2" and weight around 220 ouch. My smallest since I have been 18 is 134. I have been in the 200's twice once I dropped down to 150 and then gained it back again.
Cushings is very similar to PCOS and also has those symptoms. Having had Cushings myself, I can tell you the fatigue was one of the first symptoms to tell me something just wasn't right. Please read the links in my siggy for more info and if you think you might have it, definitely look for a doc that has Cushings knowledge - serious knowledge. Cuz they'll rule one or two blood tests out and that's just not right. Like PCOS and other issues, you need more than one or two tests to diagnose. Hang in there!
well... I have a lump between my shoulders at the base of my spine...but sense blood labs at my school cost 10 dollars, they checked me for pretty much everything, and my testosterone was high, my glucose was high, my bad cholesterol was low and my good cholesterol was a little to low, my triglycerides were a little low, and my white blood cell count was slightly elevated but I also have killer pollen allergies and the dr agreed that WAS probably it. oh and estrogen was high... other then that I'm normal everywhere, they were even very complimentary on my liver results.
huzzah healthy liver (until i beat it up with metformin anyways).
I think some of my exhaustion is heat, It's a nightmare in Houston right now, and if i go out in it my exhaustion levels spike. also i have terrible problems with insomnia and that doesn't help any.
I feel ya on the weight issue I am currently 5'2" and weight around 220 ouch. My smallest since I have been 18 is 134. I have been in the 200's twice once I dropped down to 150 and then gained it back again.
yeah i lost about 50lbs when i left my exhusband, but that's because i was under so much stress if i ate more than a granola bar in 4 hours i'd vomit. Gained a lot of it back back when I got back to being able to eat. Then I lost another 20 lbs that year in july when i ate some of those salmonella tomato's that were going around....i couldn't eat solid food for a month, just coke, gatoraide, and water. I had to retrain my stomach to digest by eating huge bowls of oatmeal with nothing on it... horrible horrible... but of course after i started eating it again it all came back and then some.
If i could make it to 190 i'd be really happy, i'm around a 10-12 at that point, and i like to THINK i'd be a lot healthier. I don't think the 140ish that someone my size weighs is ever going to happen, i'll try, but you know, there is more to life then being skinny.
yeah i lost about 50lbs when i left my exhusband, but that's because i was under so much stress if i ate more than a granola bar in 4 hours i'd vomit. Gained a lot of it back back when I got back to being able to eat. Then I lost another 20 lbs that year in july when i ate some of those salmonella tomato's that were going around....i couldn't eat solid food for a month, just coke, gatoraide, and water. I had to retrain my stomach to digest by eating huge bowls of oatmeal with nothing on it... horrible horrible... but of course after i started eating it again it all came back and then some.
If i could make it to 190 i'd be really happy, i'm around a 10-12 at that point, and i like to THINK i'd be a lot healthier. I don't think the 140ish that someone my size weighs is ever going to happen, i'll try, but you know, there is more to life then being skinny.
I am hoping to get down to my post military weight. 150. Its going to take a while. I started gaining weight like crazy. Another symptom up the PCOS I guess.
The smallest I can possibly get down to is a size 9 lol. Yeah a size 9 at 105 lbs at age 17 was kind of funny. I really would love to be that again. I think I was still a size 9 at 135 ish to.
When I had the flu in april somehow I managed to gain weight. The same day I found out I had the flu my mom told me that they found a tumor on her thyroid.
Turned out to be nothing important. One month later and half a thyroid left they declared it was a part of her hashi moto's disease.
This sounds very much like Cushings too. I didn't even realize that those of you with less than 10 posts couldn't see my siggy. Sorry!! Please check it out when you can see it tho!
well the other things that make me think it's not is i'm kinda like bizarrely strong, and i do NOT bruise easy. Things like surgery that would normally bruise the crud out of people doesn't even cause me to swell.
I started on the metformin in May...I'm eating significantly less fast food (I'm in grad school, what can i say?), and I've been doing yoga in combination with this dance work out video... I picked yoga cause I hadn't worked out really in years and I needed something that would strengthen and wasn't going to just kill me....I'm trying to adopt life style habits here and not just band aide to a gushing wound (no fad diets). The sad part to me is that I'm not really losing much weight and that's really really depressing.
Time to take another look at the menu and the fitness. What you're doing is certainly a step in the absolute right and healthy direction. To get over into 'weight loss' territory, both the food and the fitness will need some tinkering.
Weight loss is about 'time under pressure' - just like turning coal into a diamond.
You're going to have to put some 'pressure' on your body to adapt and change. You'd be amazed at how quickly it will get fit.
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