For you sauna-savvy folks - calories burned?

[michelem]

Hi Roxy,

You mentioned the endo thing, and I thought I'd share with you a great blog:
www.incyst.com

Even if you don't have PCOS (I don't), it's a wealth of great nutritional information.

Good luck to you!

[channlluv]

Michelle, thank you so much. I was diagnosed with PCOS in September, whihc is to say, my doctor confirmed I've got eight of the 12 symptoms and started medicating me for it, since there's not a real test to confirm the condition itself.

The endo I saw a week ago upped my Metformin dosage. That will take a while to kick in, but we'll see. Meanwhile, I'm waiting on test results.

I'll go check out that blog. It looks like something I really need to read.

And thanks, everyone else, for the love, support, and commiseration. It's so hard when all my best friends are training for tris and marathons and stuff, and I'm stuck on the sidelines because my joints can't handle running with my weight, so I'm facing constant knee and ankle injuries, and in the pool, yesterday, an old woman rehabbing a hip outswam me. Oy vey.

Roxy

[zoom-zoom]

Ahhh...PCOS. I know a couple of women who deal with that and they really struggle with their weight, in addition too all of the other tough symptoms. Roxy, I hope the meds increase help your metabolism. I recall when one friend was first diagnosed that it took quite a long time to figure out what dosage her body required to get on-track.

[Biciclista]

I'd like to see something scientific that says you sweat out heavy metals too.

[Grog]

PCOS s*cks. You're one tough gal. Even if you're not losing weight, you're getting stronger and fitter. Celebrate that and keep it going! Good luck - and many positive thoughts your way.

[channlluv]

PCOS s*cks. You're one tough gal. Even if you're not losing weight, you're getting stronger and fitter. Celebrate that and keep it going! Good luck - and many positive thoughts your way.

Thank you. And that's why I keep trying, because one day, something is going to flip the switch and it will all come together.

My regret is that I wasn't in a better emotional place ten years ago when I was still young enough to have more children. I've lost five, and was in the depths of a pretty severe depression for the better part of a decade. I don't know how I survived it at all, to be honest.

I do have one miracle child, though - the OB listened to me when I told her I'd done a lot of research (read books, interviewed almost 100 women who'd suffered early-term miscarriages, too, and this was what they'd been diagnosed with, the ones who matched what happened to me) and I believed that I had corpus luteal defect. She listened and prescribed natural progesterone the next time I got pregnant, and believe me, I knew within two weeks of conception because of the changes in my body already. And my DD was born healthy. By the time I got pregnant again, that doctor had retired and I was on a different insurance plan, and the new doctors either didn't listen or just didn't believe I knew what I was talking about, and one even prescribed progesterone, but the pharmacy gave me synthetic, and it was in a dose too low to do anything to help. He was basically shutting me up, I think. But by then, I was too emotionally exhausted and depressed to fight back. It's my belief, though, that his actions are the direct cause of the death of at least one of my children. (I became his patient a little too far into the third pregnancy to do much about the progesterone deficiency because doctors won't see new patients until you're at least 8 weeks along, but the fourth one he could have saved.)

Anyway, yeah, there's a lot of emotional pain tied up in this body. That probably has something to do with the difficulty losing weight, too.

Roxy

[szsz]

Hugs, Roxy. You've been through a bunch.

We should meet at Fiesta one of these days. It's been too cold for me to venture out if you can believe that; I am the world's largest wuss.

Be well.

[channlluv]

I'd like to see something scientific that says you sweat out heavy metals too.

All I have to go on is the word of the very beautiful 50-something Norwegian woman sitting next to me.

Roxy

[Zen]

All I have to go on is the word of the very beautiful 50-something Norwegian woman sitting next to me.

Roxy

Is she a scientist?