u/Helwyr_

Ever since I was diagnosed with PCOS, I keep on searching studies to better understand this syndrome and how it affects my body and health. The conclusion I come up with is that we know very little and nearly everything sounds like we are “estimating” or “guessing” what this condition might/perhaps/maybe can do to women’s bodies. Lose weight, exercise, take meds that aren’t even made specifically for pcos but oh well, they seem to be working so there’s that, sleep 9 hours per day(like we have time for that from how much we work), don’t eat sugar, lower your carbs as much as possible, eat a lot of fiber, get checked for vitamin D deficiency, manage your stress.

Sounds familiar? That’s how basic human life should be. How everyone should live their lives in order for the human body to be in a healthy state NOT for some with PCOS. This isn’t a cure. This is an excuse for every doctor to ask for your money after booking your appointment months prior. How many of us do that? How many of us live very restricted lives and STILL have symptoms or even in many cases have worse symptoms. That’s because we still do NOT know WHAT this disease is! I cannot believe such an odd, very serious disease that can literally cause even fertility issues to the planet itself, as an alarming number of women get it these days, isn’t being studied more!

I was almost always overweight. My highest was 97kg (214 pounds) with a height of 167cm (5'5). At some point, right after I got Covid, I developed serious health issues that made me unable to eat and I dropped to 77kg (169 pounds). Couple years later, I developed insulin resistance and high cholesterol and my weight went up to 87kg out of the blue until I took medications and now it stays at around 80kg. I can’t go down from that. I can’t stick to a diet especially now that I have bad insulin resistance. I have to do low carbs and I absolutely cannot. I’ve tried everything but I can’t convince myself to eat healthier let alone exercise too. I work too much and the last thing I have in my mind is to meal prep and cook every type of vegetable and salads there is, try to find rare low carb expensive stuff to snack on, cook all day long and exercise too.

At this point I have accepted that I’ll die from PCOS complications at a young age.