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Another way to tell if it's PCOS.
If you go on a diabetic-type diet, and increase your amount of exercise, and your condition improves (over three or six months, not overnight): then you have an insulin disorder.
And PCOS is an endocrine disorder involving insulin. And (slightly) less risky than diabetes. So at that point you hope it's PCOS, not diabetes.
On the plus side, though, you'll have proof that improving your condition is within your control!
Seriously, there are two ways to manage PCOS. By manipulating the insulin system (metformin, diet-and-exercise) and by manipulating the repro hormones (the pill, HRT).
Do whichever works for you: but the diet-and-exercise is the most generally helpful method of all of those, and has the fewest side effects. If you can get good results with that, go for it.
.... so sayeth the woman with both fibromyalgia and PCOS.
I can manage five minutes of intentional exercise a day without aggravating the fibro. BUT even five minutes of gentle exercise a day improves things. It doesn't have to be much to help!
If you go on a diabetic-type diet, and increase your amount of exercise, and your condition improves (over three or six months, not overnight): then you have an insulin disorder.
And PCOS is an endocrine disorder involving insulin. And (slightly) less risky than diabetes. So at that point you hope it's PCOS, not diabetes.
On the plus side, though, you'll have proof that improving your condition is within your control!
Seriously, there are two ways to manage PCOS. By manipulating the insulin system (metformin, diet-and-exercise) and by manipulating the repro hormones (the pill, HRT).
Do whichever works for you: but the diet-and-exercise is the most generally helpful method of all of those, and has the fewest side effects. If you can get good results with that, go for it.
.... so sayeth the woman with both fibromyalgia and PCOS.
I can manage five minutes of intentional exercise a day without aggravating the fibro. BUT even five minutes of gentle exercise a day improves things. It doesn't have to be much to help!
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