Oh wow, somehow I am just now seeing this! Firstly, thank you so much for including my writing - it really means a lot to me ❤️ And second, as someone who has severely experienced PCOS in the past, and also as a midwife/acupuncturist/holistic health practitioner who works with clients who have been burned by the mainstream ways that PCOS are "managed", this essay hit so hard. Thank you for speaking to the complexities and to the absolute idiocy/cruelty of the medical industrial complex.
I really love the Instagram account @the.hormone.dietician! The creator gives very reasonable, evidence based information. She has also a great cookbook that I appreciate because it doesn’t advocate for cutting out whole food groups or eating from a place of restriction :)
Thank you for including my publication in your post - and for writing about such an important topic. I've been writing a bit about endometriosis - and plan to write more about it. Gynaecological care has a LONG ways to go - and I'm confident if these conditions impacted men we would have better treatment options.
PS I adore that Simpson image you shared! Thanks for giving me a much needed laugh!
I don't have PCOS, but I am perimenopausal and just generally, anything that impacts people with uteruses is so hugely and sadly understudied it makes me scream on the regular. I have known I am perimenopausal for about a year, but only *finally* got a doctor to agree with me a month ago.
The biggest resource, besides talking to other folks who are peri- or menopausal about their experiences, has been the book The Menopause Manifesto, as another resource for you.
I would be super curious about whether hormone therapy has been done around PCOS (probably not, of course) and how it may help or not. I've had friends with endo who have had an amazing experience once they got the ute yeeted and went on low-dose hormones. The 'whole body' effect of things leveling out, without the side effects that would come from other treatments has done wonders for at least three people I know.
Years ago I used over the counter progesterone cream on my doc's rec when I was first diagnosed (it took 10 years and multiple providers) and was only having periods a few times a year. It gave me a nornal cycle and I was eventually able to go off and continue on with a normal cycle. Now that I'm doing HRT for perimenopause I think using HRT for PCOS would be far better than taking the pill, which is often a recommendation but causes issues for so many of us as it overrides the whole system. My primary care doc just recommended the pill to me for a uterine issue that made my periods much more intense and my HRT naturopath took my lowest dose estrogen patch to the next step instead and my periods are immediately back to normal without the problems of the pill. The same could be done for PCOS symptoms and hopefully will in the future now that HRT is being normalized for lots of reasons.
Oooh, thank you for the book rec! And yeah, I think some people with PCOS are on HRT, but I'm not totally sure and it's not something my dr discussed with me for that, but rather or perimenopause symptoms. A lot of doctors will unfortunately just tell people to get on the pill for PCOS :/
Oh wow, somehow I am just now seeing this! Firstly, thank you so much for including my writing - it really means a lot to me ❤️ And second, as someone who has severely experienced PCOS in the past, and also as a midwife/acupuncturist/holistic health practitioner who works with clients who have been burned by the mainstream ways that PCOS are "managed", this essay hit so hard. Thank you for speaking to the complexities and to the absolute idiocy/cruelty of the medical industrial complex.
I really love the Instagram account @the.hormone.dietician! The creator gives very reasonable, evidence based information. She has also a great cookbook that I appreciate because it doesn’t advocate for cutting out whole food groups or eating from a place of restriction :)
Oooh, thank you for the rec!
Thank you for including my publication in your post - and for writing about such an important topic. I've been writing a bit about endometriosis - and plan to write more about it. Gynaecological care has a LONG ways to go - and I'm confident if these conditions impacted men we would have better treatment options.
PS I adore that Simpson image you shared! Thanks for giving me a much needed laugh!
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I don't have PCOS, but I am perimenopausal and just generally, anything that impacts people with uteruses is so hugely and sadly understudied it makes me scream on the regular. I have known I am perimenopausal for about a year, but only *finally* got a doctor to agree with me a month ago.
The biggest resource, besides talking to other folks who are peri- or menopausal about their experiences, has been the book The Menopause Manifesto, as another resource for you.
I would be super curious about whether hormone therapy has been done around PCOS (probably not, of course) and how it may help or not. I've had friends with endo who have had an amazing experience once they got the ute yeeted and went on low-dose hormones. The 'whole body' effect of things leveling out, without the side effects that would come from other treatments has done wonders for at least three people I know.
Years ago I used over the counter progesterone cream on my doc's rec when I was first diagnosed (it took 10 years and multiple providers) and was only having periods a few times a year. It gave me a nornal cycle and I was eventually able to go off and continue on with a normal cycle. Now that I'm doing HRT for perimenopause I think using HRT for PCOS would be far better than taking the pill, which is often a recommendation but causes issues for so many of us as it overrides the whole system. My primary care doc just recommended the pill to me for a uterine issue that made my periods much more intense and my HRT naturopath took my lowest dose estrogen patch to the next step instead and my periods are immediately back to normal without the problems of the pill. The same could be done for PCOS symptoms and hopefully will in the future now that HRT is being normalized for lots of reasons.
Oooh, thank you for the book rec! And yeah, I think some people with PCOS are on HRT, but I'm not totally sure and it's not something my dr discussed with me for that, but rather or perimenopause symptoms. A lot of doctors will unfortunately just tell people to get on the pill for PCOS :/