The PCOS VENT YOUR FRUSTRATIONS ongoing thread:)

Urgh!! I've been newly diagnosed. Now I'm on metformin and the whole world thinks i'm diabetic which I"M NOT and i have to explain what the hell PCOS is. And I need to lose weight coz of all the risk factor and insulin resistant crap. now i know why everytime i try to lose weight i either CAN"t or i can;'t maintain the weight loss. I HATE PCOS. just like everyone else.

LETS FIGHT THIS TOGETHER. :explode:

I hated the way doctors treated me when they first diagnosed me. When I was trying to discuss my options with them they said "Well you don't have to worry about it until you want to get pregnant" Really? I politely raised my voice at her and said I have a beard, I'm packing a spare tire, I'm balding on top of my head pray tell who will actually want to get pregnant with that?? Give me a break. It's annoying that there is no help, I finally got to go to an endo who of course pushed scripts, of Metformin, dieting, spiralactone etc. I tried at the beginning and then gave up.

I instead chose to do alternative things. I did acupuncture for a year to regulate my period. After I lost my job I couldn't afford acupuncture but had plenty of time to exercise so I started doing just that, now I'm down 31 lbs and my last 3 periods have come right on time, 28 days, 31 days, 30 days. I was averaging before acupuncture 38-46 days.

A friend of mine who has PCOS as well actually much worse than me as she can go months without a period. Tried for 2 years to get pregnant. Finally gave up the clomid and all the drugs. Went to a massage therapist and had mayofasial massage done twice (specifically for fertility) and conceived that same month.

I am not against prescriptions or any of that, but for myself I have chosen a different path. Acupuncture has been around forever, billions of chinese people can't be wrong. HA!

I'm going to get an ultrasound this Wednesday to see if I have PCOS. I read through this forum and noticed that I do have a few hairs that grow on my chin and I gain all my weight in my mid-section. I regularly go about 60 days in between periods. My doctor did a blood test and though I might have "mild PCOS"....so we'll see. I haven't been able to get pregnant, but hopefully I can get pregnant naturally- that's a goal of mine in losing weight.

It just makes me wonder, why do so many women seem to have PCOS? My entire family is SO fertile, so I don't understand why I would be the only one to have fertility issues. :frown:

I'm starting to wonder if it's all the crap in our foods, It's such a disruption in hormones, all the plastic we have been using for the last 50 years or whatever, plus I also heard years ago they used to do drilling on the ovaries, or wedging the ovaries, a surgery where they took a chunk out, and it seemed to help re-regulate the hormones, however, they stopped doing it (you may be able to find SOMEONE who will still do it) and switched to meds instead. My doctor who diagnosed me, had the wedging done and she said she considers herself cured.

Why they stopped doing it, I don't know but it seems everything they do nowadays has to be done with a prescription, but those prescriptions don't always do the trick. It's so damn frustrating.

I am so frustrated with PCOS I cannot stand it. I cannot figure out how to get rid of the anger. SO SO SO FRUSTRATED.

I agree, I cannot keep the weight off either, I gain so fast it's easy to gain 5lbs in one day, so frustrating.

As I'm turning 39 this month and knocking on 40 having PCOS is so very frustrating, while person after person on Facebook (including my cousins 20 year old daughter) sneezing and getting pregnant, I just want to say a big **** YOU! to PCOS.

I was diagnosed with PCOS when I was just 18, I didn't have any symptoms then, only reason doctors found out was because I had an ultrasound because of an IUD check-up. It is only in the last 18 months, now aged 24, that I have started having symptoms. I have gained 40+lbs in 18 months aswell as really bad acne, I don't have facial hair (thankfully) but if I don't shave my legs or underarms every day the hairs grow 1/4 of an inch and are jet black, despite me being quite fair!.... I haven't ovulated or had a proper cycle this whole time. In fact I've bled heavily continuously for the last 18 months, with only a 3 month break in between (commencing day 103 anyone?). Even being on hormones doesn't stop the bleeding. I am being tested for endometriosis very shortly, and I am hoping I will be prescribed metformin and possibly clomid to see if either will help with ANYTHING. Because of the bleeding I have recurrent thrush and UTI's also, I also have to take a lot of anti-inflammatorys (ibuprofen) and paracetamol just to stop being doubled over in pain.

I have to take high dose iron tablets and muli vitamins and I am so low because of all this I self prescribed St. Johns Wort.

In 65 days (On MFP) I have lost 8-9lbs.. which is a good deal, but considering I am hitting 350 minutes of excercise a week AND only eating 1700 calories a day (100-200 lower than recommended for my weight), this is very slow process. The only reason I feel I am actually losing is because I am on a low GI diet also (low sugary carbs).

Anybody else get really horrific bleeding with pcos? I get the feeling PCOS is not my only problem...

I have been trying to conceive my first for over 2 years.

I was diagnosed with PCOS and insulin resistance when I was 14. I've been heavy most of my life and diet and exercise never seemed to work in the past. I am now on Metformin ER and I seem to be doing better. I had tried to start metformin twice before now and both times ended up with a little blessing, (one is 4 years old and the other one is 3 months lol). Still, the weight is coming off very slowly and I do crave stuff. Birth control makes me horribly moody but without it my cycles are few and far between and horrific when they come. I bled for 9 days straight for my first post partum period and they had to give me pills to stop it because it was so heavy (I also have the lovely iron deficiency anemia that seems to accompany PCOS). I also bled more than average during my c-sections. And I am always plucking those stupid chin hairs! I also have the dark patches in my under arms and on the back of my neck. I HATE YOU PCOS!!!!!

I have PCOS too and at the ripe old age of 44 (ha), I've had enough. The weight that I've put on around my middle is just ridiculous. I joined MFP at the start of January and have managed to lose 10 lbs, but that seems to have slowed down to a crawl. I read yesterday that now I have to cut WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back on my carbs because of the whole insulin resistance crap. AAACCK! :grumble:

Combining that with Fibromyalgia, frankly, I think someone should just take me out and have me shot.

It's like fighting a never ending battle - I WANT to get rid of the weight (I have 100 lbs to lose) - and I'm really gung ho, but after reading all of the depressing literature on how PCOS affects that process...well, it just makes me want to give up and eat my body weight in KFC. :sad:

But - I will persevere to the very best of my abilities...and to the rest of you - keep your chin up and your ovaries down.

Don't give up!!! I thought I'd never get the weight off and I'm nearly half way to my goal in just 4 months. I was told the key is exercise and lots of it. I put in 2.5 hours a day combined with lo carb, no wheat, nothing processed and sugar only from fruits and I'm losing faster than I ever dreamed possible. It's hard at first, but you will feel so much better and a lot of the symptoms will start to ease off!

Dear PCOS,
After this surgery and after I loose the fat that you so greedily store, you will be getting an eviction notice with your tantrums. I will get my period back, the hair will go away, and my hormones will stable out. Because I am making you, vulgar and mean PCOS my beyotch. You will succumb to my will and you will never plague my life again with your painful periods, missing periods, extra hair, infertility, and dark patches. You will take your friend insulin resistance with you.
No love,
Me

Amen.