| SoulCyster #1
Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: USA
Posts: 21,785
My Mood:  Points: 2,413,749.25 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 2,413,749.25 |  Overcoming PCOS to lose weight
[coverattach=1]When I was a teen, my periods were never normal. Yet, I didn’t worry about it because in “sex education” classes they told us “young girls are different; you are adjusting and nothing is ‘normal.’” Well, during a bunch of girl talk, when I was 16 years old, I mentioned I had not had a period in a year. My friends all freaked out and told me to tell my mom to take me to the doctor.
She took me to an OBGYN. He noticed hair growth on my chest and stomach while giving me the exam. He, thus, concluded I had PCOS. He told me I would probably not be able to have children, but with medical science advancing there might be possibilities available when I was ready to conceive. He gave me birth control pills; he also told me to lose weight and exercise (at that point I was about 15 pounds overweight).
[coverattach=2]Some of the PCOS symptoms I have include: cysts on my ovaries, infrequent periods (never to three times a year), acne, prehypertension, skin tags, hirsutism, insulin resistance (probably, not officially), hair loss, depression, and, most noticeably, obesity with weight carried around the waist. Uh. . . is that all of them?
When I was a teen, my periods were never normal. Yet, I didn’t worry about it because in “sex education” classes they told us “young girls are different; you are adjusting and nothing is ‘normal.’” Well, during a bunch of girl talk, when I was 16 years old, I mentioned I had not had a period in a year. My friends all freaked out and told me to tell my mom to take me to the doctor.
She took me to an OBGYN. He noticed hair growth on my chest and stomach while giving me the exam. He, thus, concluded I had PCOS. He told me I would probably not be able to have children, but with medical science advancing there might be possibilities available when I was ready to conceive. He gave me birth control pills; he also told me to lose weight and exercise (at that point I was about 15 pounds overweight).
Some of the PCOS symptoms I have include: cysts on my ovaries, infrequent periods (never to three times a year), acne, prehypertension, skin tags, hirsutism, insulin resistance (probably, not officially), hair loss, depression, and, most noticeably, obesity with weight carried around the waist. Uh. . . is that all of them?
__________________ Hey, SoulCysters! Need to eat more veggies, but can't find recipes??
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Last edited by KatCarney; 06-18-2008 at 07:16 PM.
|
