Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

Some good news

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I am happy for you, that you are happy, ((((Nikki))))!!!!  I know what this "battle" is like, with the weight and everything, for I too am going through a similar thing.  Be good to you, and please take care of yourself!  :O)   Ears   Lets look closer at the size of our hearts, the width of our souls and the length of our spirits.   -SARK

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nikki, just wanted to say that i’m happy for you too. but please remember, you are worthwhile and valuable at any size. you’re not a number. numbers mean so little. salamandra Got questions?  Get answers over the phone at Keen.com. Up to 100 minutes free! http://www.keen.com

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I am elated for you, sweetie!  That is wonderful news.  I know how much this whole ordeal has been hurting you (I too have been overweight, so I KNOW) and, well, I am just really happy for you.

Thank you Butterflies. I got your message that you left yesterday…I am so sorry, I didnt hear the phone ring (I think I was in the shower). Lately, I am so phone phobic as well, but I hope that if you call again, that I will be in earshot of the phone. Love Nikki "… lost in the darkness of my own circumstance, criticizing echoes leaving me awake in the night… the barrier and blockades that keep me safe and in control while I pretend that I am okay… "

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it sounds like you’re in a pretty good mood. that’s way cool. love, k.m.

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Nikki (((((hugs)))) I am skipping around the room for you honey. Lots of love Penny — Can’t rain all the time. (from The Crow)

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{{{{{Nikki}}}}} I am elated for you, sweetie!  That is wonderful news.  I know how much this whole ordeal has been hurting you (I too have been overweight, so I KNOW) and, well, I am just really happy for you. Love, Butterflies ~In the event of rapture, this account will be unmanned.

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Spoiler for talk of weight, no numbers though * * * * * * * * * * * * * * As some of you may know, I have been fighting this battle of the bulge for a while…I have gained alot of weight in just over a year and a half  because of this endocrine problem. I have no periods at all (its been a year), high cholesterol and triglycerides (despite the fact that I don’t eat fatty foods, fast food, or meat), edema, weight gain (last summer alone I went up 6 sizes), inability to lose weight, Polycystic Ovary Disease (which I think is secondary to the endocrine problem…in other words, the doctors and I think its something else causing the PCOD, possibly a pituitary gland malfunction), and other strange symptoms. The weight gain happened so fast…in a year, I was xx pounds heavier than the year before. And you can see that it is medical…my face has that "look" to it…swollen, and red. Well, getting to my news. it was chilly here yesterday, so I decided to put on my jeans. Now, my jeans are always an indicator of where I am weight wise. At first I wasn’t going to put them on because I felt like I had gained, and I didnt want to get upset. But I was cold. So, I put them on and was shocked! These xx sized jeans are so big! I had them on in May, and they weren’t this baggy..I mean, they were baggy, but not this baggy. Put it this way, I could take them off without even unbuttoning them. I had to cuff the bottoms because they were dragging on the floor. Now, I know that posting my news of weight loss might not be appropriate to some…but you have to understand this nightmare I have been living for a year and a half now. My eating habits hadn’t changed, and I was gaining weight, as much as 5-7 pounds a MONTH. One month I gained 10 pounds. I was doing nothing to gain this much…I even cut back on the small amount I was eating, and I was still gaining. Then my cholesterol and triglycerides came up high, and my one doctor told me I had to cut out the bad foods…I tried telling him that I wasn’t eating bad foods, but he blew me off. He thought that I was fat by choice…that it was my doing. On my last bloodwork results, my triglycerides rose 201 points in less than  2 months, and I think this doctor now is realizing that there is more to this picture because I am on meds for the cholesterol and it still has gone up. Even if I *was* indeed eating Big Macs and fries everyday for the last 2 months, the triglyceride level shouldn’t have risen that much. So now my docs are all getting serious about this, and I have an appointment to see a top-notch Endocrinologist. I also have to get a CT scan of my brain to rule out a pituitary tumor, as this seems to be a likely cause of some of my problems (I am also Hypothyroid, but that is controlled with meds, and I have had Osteoporosis since my late teens, and that can also be a result of an endocrine problem). I also have to have a 5 hour glucose test because I might be diabetic..my blood sugar has been dipping really low (51 at last test), and then I can also feel it when it goes high. Polycystic Ovary Disease can also cause diabetes. Anyhow, I am getting off track. When I put those jeans on yesterday, (and I have them on now as I am chilly again) I was so relieved. Last winter (1999) I had to keep buying larger and larger jeans every couple of weeks because of the weight gain…I have had these jeans since about December, and they still fit, and are actually TOO baggy. I have to go and get a smaller size…imagine that…a SMALLER size for once, and not a bigger size like I have been having to get for the past year and a half. I FEEL less bloated. An area that I really gained weight too was my chest. I went from being a 34B (and that was even too big at some points) to being a 38D….now I am a 36C and "the girls" don’t feel heavy and bloated anymore. For a while there I was even wearing a bra to bed because I couldn’t stand how heavy the girls were. I brought some new bras last weekend, and for once, I didnt have to buy bigger. When I was pregnant, I had the same feeling with the girls..they were swollen and heavy, almost from day one of my pregnancies (I have had 2 miscarriages). Now they feel somewhat "normal" and I can deal with being braless at night. Well, I am rambling…I just feel so much better mentally that the weight seems to be coming off. I just wish it would come off as quick as it went on…LOL. Love to all Nikki "… lost in the darkness of my own circumstance, criticizing echoes leaving me awake in the night… the barrier and blockades that keep me safe and in control while I pretend that I am okay… "

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