I'm still wrapping my brain around the chicken or the egg theory concerning PCOS, so I decided to ask this here. Who here was over weight when they were diagnosed? If you weren't over weight at first, did you begin to gain weight over time? Or have you stayed relatively thin? Thanks guys!
Sudden, unexplained weight gain was one of my symptoms in college (160 jumping to 180) when I started trying to find out what was wrong. I'd been irregular all my life so somewhere in my head I'd wondered if the sudden weight wasn't a tumor or something scary like that.
No dx. 180 became 200. I tried again at Planned Parenthood to get answers since I was not on my parent's health insurance any more and they work on a sliding scale.
No dx. 200 became 230+ and I married and got on DH's insurance and started pursuing it again. I got the dx, started met and levoxyl, got it down to 217 when I got pregnant.
Now I'm working it back down again.
It just irritates me because I think if I had been dx'd sooner and started meds sooner I wouldn't have quit so much to go, not had quite so much on me while pregnant, etc. Sigh.
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I started gaining when I was 19. I didn't get diagnosed till I was 23. I gained weight pretty fast actually and I had gone on Weight Watchers and I couldn't lose weight as fast as I thought I should. I got diagnosed and I was about 190 and I am only 5'3 1/4".
I'm 34 and was just diagnosed last year, and I was overweight when I was finally diagnosed. I've been battling the 'bulge' since 12. In high school, my dr put me on bcp to try to regulate af so that it wasn't so painful, and instead of gaining on the pill, like most of my friends, I dropped 40 lbs.
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hmmmm...good question. I wasn't thin but wasn't overweight when all my other symptoms were there (i was probably 155, which is in the "normal range" for my height). What was more troubling than the number was the rate. I went from about 155 to 290 in about 9 months I kid you not. But I was diagnosed BEFORE the weight gain happened. It happened RIGHT after I was diagnosed and slapped on birth control at the ripe old age of 15~! grrr i regret that decision on my doc and parents part to this day.
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I was overweight when dx'ed. I started gaining around 10-12 like most girls but it never balanced out, then I was dx'ed at 14. Though I wouldn't consider myself to be of a weight that would cause a lot of health concerns (about 30 lbs. over the "ideal" and would do just fine if I lost 20), so I always wonder if PCOS really has anything to do with my weight. I have a hard time losing it and I am IR, but at the same time, I'm not exactly obese or gaining 5 lbs. a day.
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When I was "officially" diagnosed I was only a little bit over weight (by like 4 lbs. by doctor standards). It took a while to get the "official" diagnosis since I wasn't overweight and PCOS doesn't show up in my bloodwork. I was within my weight standards when they first started guessing it 2 years prior to this. Anyhow...the weight piled on fairly quickly around that time. I gained 20 lbs. It was chalked up to having to take steroids for an eye disease. However, the weight isn't not budging. I have struggled for close to 10 years now to lose that 20 lbs. and it won't move!!!!!! I would seriously like to lose between 20-30 lbs., but am feeling awfully discouraged about it all at this point!
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I started gaining weight at age 8. By the time I was in my teens I was obese and having different PCOS symptoms. At the time my pedi just said it was a "hormone imbalance" and did nothing. In Oct. 2002 I made an appointment with my GP to discuss info I found about PCOS and she said I probably had it. She did no tests or followups. I was 230 pounds or so at the time. I started a modified lower carb diet and was down to 195 or so when I went to my GYN and got an official dx of PCOS.
I guess since my first cycle at 12 years old, I'd steadily gained weight. I went up a pant size every school year. So it didn't seem like a lot... but it adds up.
When I was 17 I was put on BCP, and maintained my weight at about 195 until I was 21. I stopped taking BCP and quickly ballooooooned into 232!
I've cut out sugars and refined carbs from my diet and am down to 215 so far!
I'm still waiting for a DX though. Just recently found a gyn down here... and appt is 1.5 months away!
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I didn't start having PCOS symptoms until right after my 2nd daughter was born, and I didn't have a weight problem until after I'd been fighting with the rest of it for a while. By the time I was finally officially diagnosed 7 years later, I was easily 100 lbs overweight, but the weight def. came after the PCOS symptoms started. That said, I lost 35 lbs in my first 2 months on Metformin... too bad that trend didn't continue! Seems to have leveled off again now unfortunately
Were you over weight when you were diagnosed? 
