PCOS Relief
PCOS vs. Cushing's–somebody PLEASE help me!?
I am struggling to find discrepancies. I have an appt. with my GP next week and while I am by NO means trying to diagnose myself, I would like to have a direction. I understand that Cushing's is under-diagnosed, so I really don't want to ignore it. PCOS seems likely, I am wondering if that is because it is so common. I had thought initially that I had PCOS, until I came across Cushing's. I have a very pronounced “buffalo hump” and looking from the side, my legs are disproportionately smaller than my mid-section. I have stretch-marks EVERYWHERE. These symptoms aren't explained by PCOS. BUT I have read that testosterone is not increased in Cushing's but it is in PCOS and I DO have elevated testosterone levels.
I am so frustrated and I'm really about to give up before even getting started. I have all symptoms of PCOS that I have read about, PLUS symptoms peculiar to Cushing's. I don't know what to do.
Here is a comprehensive list of my symptoms.
-Gained 80 pounds in one year. No changes to diet or excercise.
-Hirsutism (face, neck, hairier hands and toes, thicker arm, leg, and butt and back hair.)
-Round face
-Oily skin, acne (face, breasts, back)
-Thinning hair on head
-Mid-body obesity
-Purple stretchmarks (abdomen, sides, arms, behind knees, around privates)
-SEVERE fatigue all day long (sometimes I don't even have enough energy to take a shower or brush my teeth. ='(
-SEVERE insomnia (I can not fall asleep before 2 in the morning.)
-Buffalo hump
-Muscle weakness
-Depression I have withdawn from family and I don't have ONE single friend. I haven't gone out on a weekend in almost 6 years. I live in my bedroom.
-SEVERE anxiety (I can't even call to order a pizza. I had my MOTHER call my doctor's for me because I was so anxious that I literally vomitted.)
-lower back pain
-No menstrual period at all for 3 years.
Here are symptoms that may be unrelated, but are very severe as well.
-My eyes shake rapidly in a horizontal direction (almost like vibrating) and causes me to have blurred vision for a second or two. I can't read series of numbers or concentrate on one spot because my eyes will move.
-DEBILITATING heartburn that makes my mouth watery and made me feel like I was having a heart-attack. Worse at nighttime.
I understand this is an onslaught and constellation of symptoms, but I have not done anything about my health since the beginning. I feel demoralized and embarrassed by my body and considering ending my life verses getting help. I recently dropped out of college because I could not handle it. Anxiety attacks, lack of ability to focus and ultimately depressed.
Please please please help me. I am afraid.
Our Infertility Story – A Man’s View
I will tell you up fron that I am a guy…a self actualized guy who does have the ability to feel compassion and empathy among other like fellings. But still, you may ask yourself, “What does a man know about infertility and the heartbreak that comes every month with another negative pregnancy test?” Plenty!
I will also tell you that I AM a father, if that gives you any hope right up front, but it wasn’t without my own heartbreak that I experienced along with my wife. Yes, I will give you women credit and not say that my own experience is as painful or frustrating as yours since I will never know what it means to be a woman. Likewise, I will never know the satisfaction that comes, and hopefully will come to you some day soon, from carrying a child in your womb for nine months…feeding and living with that baby in a way that no man could possibly comprehend. But I will tell you that I have cried both tear of anger and frustration after losing a baby and also, like I said, months and months of trying to have a baby with my wife. The child that we lost was given a name and I look forward to seeing him someday at the end of my life…I look forward to embracing him and getting to know him.
In the meantime I hope to help those that are in the same situation that we were in not too long ago. Yes, my wife and I did have a child together. As a matter of fact I have THREE children! I am fortunate and I have been blessed…but I DO remember what it was like to wonder if that day would ever come. The stress and unspoken feeling of failure that I saw on my wife’s face each month after she tried to do everything right only to find out that once again, she wasn’t pregnant. She would quietly note in her journal her basal temperature and track the days of her cycle…she would have stood on her head and spit wooden nickels if she thought that it would help her to conceive. As a matter of fact, I am sure that there is some sort of correlation between standing on one’s head and propping her butt up in the air with a pillow after each baby making session that could be made!
Trips to the doctor and OBGYN were met with a list of difficulties that she would have to overcome if she was ever to get pregnant…PCOS, a tilted cervix…you name it and the doctors could find it wrong with her! But this
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is their job. They are trained to find problems so don’t hold it against them. What they don’t know is that the human body is an amazing thing that can overcome many obstacles in it self. I mean, how amazing is the entire process of reproduction in itself? Think about that for a while and ponder what has to happen for you and your significant other to successfully start this process and all that goes on once that process is started? Amazing!
For my wife and me, success came when we least expected it. Yes, we got lucky…or did we? Was it actually luck or the absence of the stress of trying so hard? There are many things that come into play and I don’t know if we will ever know the exact reasons why we were successful after a year of trying. It could have been the absence of stress from my wife’s daily life. It could have been the fact that we weren’t trying. It could have been a change in my wife’s eating habits over the month preceding her becoming pregnant.
The fact is that there are many options that you should consider before either giving up or turning to expensive medical options that can sometimes throw your body and your life out of whack. Diet can play a key role in fertility…as well as weight and stress. And let’s not forget the part that men play in this equation! That’s right…perhaps a pair of boxer shorts and a healthy lifestyle for him might help your success? If nothing else he might look pretty spiffy in a pair of silk boxers, don’t you think?
By: Cory Jeam
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