Fri, Feb-15-02, 10:02
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Posts: 90
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Plan: adkins
Stats: 125/110/110
BF:
Progress: 100%
Location: Kentucky
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Maybe not cure, but control symptoms
This diet may not be a "cure" for PCOS, but it may be able to make it manageable. There is no "cure" for diabetes either, but there are ways that through diet and exercise it can be managed and helped. I think whether it can be cured or not depends a lot on what triggered the problem in the first place. All I know is the improvement that I have seen in my daughter in less than two weeks time. I may be new to PCOS, but my ex-husband had insulin-related problems and my mother was a diabetic. I know diet helped both of them. I did not know of Adkins diet at the time, but the diabetic diet is much the same. I know you don't want us to have false hope, but hope is what I need right now. I am seeing results for my daughter and I am thrilled!
Mom-of-2, I do not have PCOS but my daughter does. She is soon to be 18 and is doing so well. I am encouraged. Her weight is going down, her attitude is changing, her depression is getting less and less and her energy is coming back up and even her period has come back. No, I don't expect a miracle and I don't expect everything to be "cured", but I will take what I can get!
Gracia, I know there is no cure and that it can get very frustrating to deal with this day after day, year after year. I wish there was a cure too. At least we have more of a chance now to improve the condition than we did before it was recognized as a insulin resistance problem. It's a start and I guess we have to be satisfied with that for now. Maybe some day, the doctors will come up with a cure for diabetes, PCOS, and insulin-resistance. Until then, we just have to research and learn on our own...trial and error...and hope to control the symptoms.
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