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3:20pm May 29, 2014

clatterbane:

mikalhvi:

clatterbane:

invisibledisabilitychameleon:

well thanks WebMD

I feel a lot better now

It’s not like we don’t already worry a lot about being really freaking awful life partners or anything…

WebMD is about as useful as shit in a coffee can.

It claimed that all forms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (some of which are genetic, NOT weight related but cause weight gain) are ‘treated with exercise and diet control’.

If the shit’s genetic, exercise and a lower weight may help, but it’s by no means curing it.

Yeah. From what I understand, increased exercise and dietary change doesn’t even help a lot of people with PCOS that much. (Don’t have it myself, but know a number of people who do.)

Very similar goes for other inherited things that cause metabolic changes including insulin resistance which often makes people pack on weight. Treating symptoms as causes just really doesn’t help. :/

Oh if that’s what they’re saying causes PCOS that might explain a scornful comment I got from a GI specialist this past year:

“Are you sure you have real adrenal insufficiency and not just polycystic ovarian syndrome?”

I explained the tests I’d undergone that proved I had real, severe adrenal insufficiency, and he said “You’re getting away from the point, here.  I just wanted to make sure you’re being seen by an endocrinologist.”

At another point, I explained that my GI problems had caused me to lose 70 pounds rapidly and dangerously and without trying, and he looked at me and said “Is this your ideal weight?”

I was about ready to smack him.  I have never had another doctor not see losing 70 pounds as serious, but he was just worried about whether I was thin enough yet.

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