Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Support Group

Polycythemia is a condition in which there is a net increase in the total circulating erythrocyte (red blood cell) mass of the body. Primary polycythemia occurs when excess erythrocytes are produced as a result of a proliferative abnormality of the bone marrow. Secondary polycythemia is caused by increases of erythropoietin that result in an increased production of...

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Diabetes & PCOS Connection?

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Hi I was just wondering I am just now starting to actuaqlly research and learn alot on PCOS I heard that it is caused by insulin resistance by being over-weight I was over weight until i was 15 and then I lost 65 pounds and have no put it back on since I went to the doctor at 14 because i thought i had it and they said no I didn't after many tests but then after screwed up periods for the next few years i went back at 19 and they did the same tests and it come back that i did have it. I don't quite get it it seams like PCOS affects "overweight" women but yet when I was over-weight I didn't seam to show symptoms of it yet when I was thin I did show symptoms I don't get it I also heard that PCOS is hereditary yet no-one in my family on either side has this or even have ever heard of it! My dads side of the family is apple shaped and have always been bigger though my grandma and two aunto are both diabetic but htey do not have PCOS, is there a connection there? I just need some advise I am so confussed about this illness!
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please check out the PCOS Info I posted, it should be helpful
cjosie
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there is a great book called PCOS for dummies, i was recommened it by Aquain, and it is excellent- really explains it well xx
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Obesity is a side effect caused PCOS. Insulin resistance is much like being diabetic. Your adrenal gland has produced so much insulin for so long it eventually put your adrenal gland into shock, and now it resistant. So when you eat your body cannot make the nutrients it needs out of the food you ingest. It stores it all as fat cells. Henceforth the obesity, lack of energy,and so forth. I was once a size 8,a normal sized child and teenager. I had weird periods though. Painful. When I was 16 they told me I had cycts but they would pop. I was 19 when I was actually diagnosed with PCOS. Being apple shaped is a key characteristic of PCOS.
PCOS is indeed a very confusing disease. That's what this thing is. There is no cure. We just have to manage it right and take care of ourselves. My mom's side of the family are the bigger, apple shaped, diabetic ones. My dad's side are the skinny, no health issue ones and yet I got it from his side. Nothing is for certain. I hope you find the answers you are looking for.
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PCOS has to start somewhere, and test now are much more advanced then they were when your Grandmother or Aunt was last checked! Obesity is a sude effect of PCOS. It doesn't cause PCOS. PCOS has to do with an insulin resistance, which causes the sugars to be sotred in your body causing fatty deposits, instead of the insulin turning it into energy and your body buring it off! My Grandmother was one of 15 children, 15 of which all suffered from PCOS!
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SORRY not PCOS but Diabetes!
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