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I am so tired of people not understanding what PCOS does to us. There is a thread in the General forum where the poster said she has PCOS and therefore has difficulty loosing weight and keeping it off. Anyways, her reason for posting was that she is having doubts about the surgery for other reasons such as financial, etc. I about flipped when I read the response from a poster who said (I did the boldface font):
"..... As a side issue, you may want to get another opinion on the idea that your weight loss is significantly effected by your polycystic ovarian syndrome, (if I understood your comment correctly). In my opinion, while it may be peripherally related in terms of hormonal- and thus water retention, it is not something that has a significant impact on your ability to lose wt, and keep it off. (are you on metformin?)......."
And then when I noticed that it was a man who posted it, I about fllipped. He suggested getting another opinion on the idea that our weight loss is signficantly effected by PCOS? It's not an opinion or an idea. It is a fact.
This was the calmest response I could muster:
"Please, Brian, with all due respect, there is no way someone who does not have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome should make statements that imply that water retention is the cause of the inability of those of us that suffer from PCOS to loose weight and keep it off. If only it were as simple as water retention. Peruse the PCOS bandster forum and you'll see stories of what PCOS really does to us. It most definately has a signficant impact on our ability to loose weight and keep it off and water retention is most likely the least of our concerns."
Anybody else fed up with with people having these misconceptions about PCOS?
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