Brownies and Cakes and Pies OH MY!
(This post may contain TMI.)
This morning I was reading a message board by women who have PCOS and are trying to conceive. For those of you who don't know, PCOS is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. With this condition, the body doesn't use sugar properly. Sugar causes insulin to flood the bloodstream and "feed back" to the ovaries, who then refuse to release eggs. Instead they form cysts and release too many of the wrong hormones. Those wrong hormones produce all kinds of unwanted effects and complicate the situation further. It's a real clusterfk. That's the short version, anyway.
The problem is that since gynecologists are the only people who ever explore your girl parts, they're the ones who usually end up diagnosing this disease. And the problem with that is that they don't know jack shit about the hormonal side of it, so they end up treating the symptoms and not the causes. If you want real treatment, you have to seek it out. Regardless of that, it shouldn't take a genius to read a snippet or two about the condition and figure out that sugar is poison to your reproductive system if you have this disease.
When I was reading on this message board, I saw posts by women who have been trying to get pregnant for months or years. They've seen fertility specialists, they've taken Clomid and more aggressive drugs, they've had the follicles on their ovaries measured. Some of them have gotten pregnant only to miscarry. I mean they're really putting themselves through a lot of crap to have kids.
Then I noticed that one of them had a "signature" that proclaimed her love for Dr. Pepper. Then I read a post by another woman who said that she has to drink only clear liquids for 24 hours before a certain medical procedure, and that it's gonna kill her because she loves her coffee. Hey, I'm drinking coffee as I type this, so I'm not throwing stones. But in the posts that followed, I learned that she packs it full of sugar. The more I read, the more blown away I was. Everyone chimed in about how much they love their Dr. Pepper, or their Mountain Dew. Not a single time was the word "DIET" mentioned. And there's a whole thread on Christmas snacks. Brownies. Cakes. Pies.
Here these women are undergoing extensive and invasive medical procedures to get pregnant, but their diets are full of sugar. What gives? Do they not know? You would think that with all the docs they're seeing, someone would've informed them by now.
Sometimes I think people enjoy their medical conditions. Some people seem to enjoy the suffering, the trips to the doctor, the disappointment of not being able to get pregnant--- in short, they like the attention.
Yesterday at the movies, I ate a bunch of popcorn. Then we went to a Mexican restaurant, where I may have ingested some rice. Reading about these stupid people has renewed my desire to avoid bad things at all costs. I hope I get knocked up right away so I can go back to that website and tell them how I did it-- by eating no sugar or refined breads, drinking no Dr. Pepper or sugary coffee drinks, eating no pie or brownies. In short, by not being an idiot.
People are stupid.
This morning I was reading a message board by women who have PCOS and are trying to conceive. For those of you who don't know, PCOS is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. With this condition, the body doesn't use sugar properly. Sugar causes insulin to flood the bloodstream and "feed back" to the ovaries, who then refuse to release eggs. Instead they form cysts and release too many of the wrong hormones. Those wrong hormones produce all kinds of unwanted effects and complicate the situation further. It's a real clusterfk. That's the short version, anyway.
The problem is that since gynecologists are the only people who ever explore your girl parts, they're the ones who usually end up diagnosing this disease. And the problem with that is that they don't know jack shit about the hormonal side of it, so they end up treating the symptoms and not the causes. If you want real treatment, you have to seek it out. Regardless of that, it shouldn't take a genius to read a snippet or two about the condition and figure out that sugar is poison to your reproductive system if you have this disease.
When I was reading on this message board, I saw posts by women who have been trying to get pregnant for months or years. They've seen fertility specialists, they've taken Clomid and more aggressive drugs, they've had the follicles on their ovaries measured. Some of them have gotten pregnant only to miscarry. I mean they're really putting themselves through a lot of crap to have kids.
Then I noticed that one of them had a "signature" that proclaimed her love for Dr. Pepper. Then I read a post by another woman who said that she has to drink only clear liquids for 24 hours before a certain medical procedure, and that it's gonna kill her because she loves her coffee. Hey, I'm drinking coffee as I type this, so I'm not throwing stones. But in the posts that followed, I learned that she packs it full of sugar. The more I read, the more blown away I was. Everyone chimed in about how much they love their Dr. Pepper, or their Mountain Dew. Not a single time was the word "DIET" mentioned. And there's a whole thread on Christmas snacks. Brownies. Cakes. Pies.
Here these women are undergoing extensive and invasive medical procedures to get pregnant, but their diets are full of sugar. What gives? Do they not know? You would think that with all the docs they're seeing, someone would've informed them by now.
Sometimes I think people enjoy their medical conditions. Some people seem to enjoy the suffering, the trips to the doctor, the disappointment of not being able to get pregnant--- in short, they like the attention.
Yesterday at the movies, I ate a bunch of popcorn. Then we went to a Mexican restaurant, where I may have ingested some rice. Reading about these stupid people has renewed my desire to avoid bad things at all costs. I hope I get knocked up right away so I can go back to that website and tell them how I did it-- by eating no sugar or refined breads, drinking no Dr. Pepper or sugary coffee drinks, eating no pie or brownies. In short, by not being an idiot.
People are stupid.
Labels: Good Old Fashioned Bitchin', I am not a hypochondriac, stupid people
I was reading your more current posts before this one and thinking, "Could she be pregnant?" I knew you were trying. Didn't know about the Pcos. My niece just found out she has it also. I didn't know that about the sugar. So glad you decided to give out the info. Thanks! And sincere wishes that your tiredness is from a baby and not the kids from school.
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Marshamarshamarsha |
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