PCOS, TTC and struggling!

To say I have been on a long journey is to put it mildly. I was diagnosed with PCOS since I hit puberty at 10. I have been on most major treatments for it. Medications and diets a like. The only time I felt like I had any sort of control over it was when I was working out 2 hours a day and strictly kept to the phase one section of the South beach diet and was on about 4 medications. Which at the time the south beach diet is what my doctor had suggested. Sadly, I was young. I guess I thought once I lost the weight it did not matter any more. Year by year I let my diet slip and stopped working out. Life lifed and so on. My body started reacting to the medications and eventually I had to be taken off all of them.

After a miracle of having a daughter I realized I was a hot mess. I was 26, smoking again to deal with stress. My hair was falling out, I was tipping the scale at 326.3 pounds. Granted I had postpartum, I had sciatic issues and so on.. but bottomline, I had lost myself.

I knew that what I did before was not going to work. Partly because it failed before but also because now I had no gallbladder. South beach was all low fat cheese and stuff I could not eat. Not to mention my immune system was so compromised I started having severe allergic reactions to the most random things.

I restarted my journey in Nov-Dec of 2015. I went cold turkey on smoking and drinking first. Then I axed the sugar and got a gym membership. By the first of this year, I heard about a PCOS Summit. After watching the online summit, I stunned to learn that some doctors are starting to treat PCOS as a Autoimmune disorder. I was shocked to learn about all the things they now classify as complications from PCOS. I realized that my doctors had always treated my issues as separate issues when really they were all connected.

Somehow I learned about Autoimmune Paleo which led me down a path of cleaning up my eating even further. On paleo I felt better. Anyways, I carried on working out and such and finally stumbled upon Keto Paleo. Its been a few months of learning about it and I don't think I could have done it from the start but Keto and Paleo are my answers.

As of today I have lost 45.5 pounds. I am 280.1 pounds today. I still have a long way to go. However, I feel so much better than I ever have in my life. Now treating my disorder through what I put in my body not just counter acting it with medications. I am not sure if that assists but that's my story. I have an instagram account I am using to sort of track myself now @manicmusesky . I feel like it keeps me focused and accountable. You are welcome to add me on here or instagram. I don't really have many friends myself that have PCOS. We are different and our journeys are never going to be as easy as those without this disorder. However, I feel that it shows our character is strong as we are willing to over come it.

manicmuse1 wrote: »

To say I have been on a long journey is to put it mildly. I was diagnosed with PCOS since I hit puberty at 10. I have been on most major treatments for it. Medications and diets a like. The only time I felt like I had any sort of control over it was when I was working out 2 hours a day and strictly kept to the phase one section of the South beach diet and was on about 4 medications. Which at the time the south beach diet is what my doctor had suggested. Sadly, I was young. I guess I thought once I lost the weight it did not matter any more. Year by year I let my diet slip and stopped working out. Life lifed and so on. My body started reacting to the medications and eventually I had to be taken off all of them.

After a miracle of having a daughter I realized I was a hot mess. I was 26, smoking again to deal with stress. My hair was falling out, I was tipping the scale at 326.3 pounds. Granted I had postpartum, I had sciatic issues and so on.. but bottomline, I had lost myself.

I knew that what I did before was not going to work. Partly because it failed before but also because now I had no gallbladder. South beach was all low fat cheese and stuff I could not eat. Not to mention my immune system was so compromised I started having severe allergic reactions to the most random things.

I restarted my journey in Nov-Dec of 2015. I went cold turkey on smoking and drinking first. Then I axed the sugar and got a gym membership. By the first of this year, I heard about a PCOS Summit. After watching the online summit, I stunned to learn that some doctors are starting to treat PCOS as a Autoimmune disorder. I was shocked to learn about all the things they now classify as complications from PCOS. I realized that my doctors had always treated my issues as separate issues when really they were all connected.

Somehow I learned about Autoimmune Paleo which led me down a path of cleaning up my eating even further. On paleo I felt better. Anyways, I carried on working out and such and finally stumbled upon Keto Paleo. Its been a few months of learning about it and I don't think I could have done it from the start but Keto and Paleo are my answers.

As of today I have lost 45.5 pounds. I am 280.1 pounds today. I still have a long way to go. However, I feel so much better than I ever have in my life. Now treating my disorder through what I put in my body not just counter acting it with medications. I am not sure if that assists but that's my story. I have an instagram account I am using to sort of track myself now @manicmusesky . I feel like it keeps me focused and accountable. You are welcome to add me on here or instagram. I don't really have many friends myself that have PCOS. We are different and our journeys are never going to be as easy as those without this disorder. However, I feel that it shows our character is strong as we are willing to over come it.

You are a fighter,,,,, Keep up the good work and congrats on losing weight

I agree with all above posts; I am on 1500mg of Metformin (high, I know, but it works) and 150mg of Spriolactone. Those medications only work with me if I maintain a LC diet, which my Endocrinologist recommended.

At first the Metformin was really, really, really, hard to get used to. You guys know what I am talking about... but I have adjusted. And the Spiro is a freaking life-changer. I had hair growing everywhere except my head, and it's turned that around. No more acne, no more back hair (omg, thankfully I have a wonderful SO who gets it) and no more balding.

I workout at least three days a week, not including very active weekends. I am weighing in at 234 today, my highest weight I ever remember being was 280.