symptoms of PCOS

If your body experiences a new pain, a new sensation, you have adopted a new eating habit (not eating or eating too much), if your temperature changes at any particular time, if you suffer from being tired or jittery, if your balance is off, if your mood changes, if you are cranky, too numb everywhere, overly thirsty yet drink lots of water, or even just too weak . . . ALL of these are called 'symptoms' of most common dysfunctions. I hate the word disease because it implies their is no ease for the disability, it is forever and I strongly disagree. I hope this has shed a little enlightenment on your current diagnosis, I am here to listen anytime and answer questions I have some familiarity in answering. I do suffer from one large left ovarian cyst that has left infertility, mood swings, mild depression, chronic pain, weight loss, loss of appetite, irritability, irregular periods and problems with bowel function, but I have decreased the mass's size, destruction and debilitation through herbal supplementation, aromatherapy, and meditation. So far so good . . .

I would rather not tell you what the 'classic symptoms' are because I do not want to pigeon-hole you into some diagnosis that may not be altogether, accurate. I have an ovarian cyst, due to early age use of birth control pills (I was 18, not used for the protection against getting pregnant but to regulate off-periods and severe cramping, bleeding etc.) It was not till in my mid-twenties that I discontinued the pill (was on it for almost 5 years) and felt awful. My weight was averaging 160 for a five foot six frame, my mood was low, my energy was gone. By the time I was 34, after having lost my second child only nine weeks into the pregnancy, I began keeping a food & mood journal because pain was beginning to show up every three or four months after I turned 37. My weight was now down, around 128, and my mood was lighter, less irritable and periods were ok. I noticed increased levels of pain for longer periods of time before my 40th birthday and after having an ultrasound that revealed a cyst from way-out-of-control untreated misdiagnosed endometriosis, I was floored! I had a small cystic mass burned off my cervix around 23 but they told me everything was fine, I could go on home and lead a non-cystic environment life from there on out. Boy were they wrong!Really what I am getting at is forget all the classic symptommology and go with what is happening to you. If you eat a certain food and it makes you feel jittery, bloated, faint, shaky, off-balance or even nautious WRITE IT DOWN. Then keep going over everything you take into your body, listen to the sounds, gurgles, rushes, the body makes when affected by something 'foreign'. PCOS is a dysfunction many, many women suffer with but it does not have to be a permanent curse for chronic pain, no children, constant moodswings, hot flashes, excessive bleeding, hormone therapy etc etc etc. Talk to us, we are here and my door is always open for you to contact me on some part of this issue, I will help the best I know how. sharing the light, Erica Hidvegi, the Enlightenment Advisor, M.A. Transpersonal Psychology Studies Counseling/ Author, Artist, Photographer & Freelancer http://www.enlightenmentpsych.net/ericasprofile.htm