Miracle vitamin!
It hasn't been a cure all but my life has gotten a lot better recently! I was looking for new books on the subject of PCOS/IR and I found other readers mentioning in their reviews that taking Chromium helped most of their painful symptoms.
Since I'm still without health insurance I can't take the IR medication I need so I was getting frustrated seeing things spiral out of control again. I was gaining weight again, sleeping too much again, very painful muscles in my feet and legs and lack of menstruation/ovulation for almost a year! All these things, including a growing depression again kept me looking for answers and everything pointed to needing to try supplementing Chromium in my daily intake. Many of the symptoms I have (that are significantly less now.) are the same for people who have a Chromium deficiency.
So I bought a basketful of vitamins. I started a one a day as well as Ester-C and Folic acid in addition to the Chromium. In the matter of two days I stopped having the leg and foot pain that was so painful I'd cry to sleep and 4 days later virtually no leg and foot pain. After a week I started to have a period and most importantly to me I've stopped gaining again and my sleeping is getting to a more normal schedule and I don't feel so depressed.
I'm just so amazed that taking certain vitamins has made such a difference for me. But I know that I was so skeptical about it doing anything that I don't think it would be a placebo effect and I highly doubt that having menstruation would be from a placebo.
I'm feeling stronger again. I had been very weak and then again after the onset of menses but now I'm starting to feel very healthy again. I think I've finally found some really useful info beyond just reducing the Carb intake in my diet.
I'm hoping now that I'll loose some inches because that is one thing that hasn't changed so far, but with the stop in weight gain and with the recent boost in energy and decrease in pain I do hope I'll start to see this happen soon. I'll also have a body wrap to take off some inches and heal my skin in June (we're going to wine country for our anniversary.) so I'm hoping I can do what I can before then to make for the most dramatic results.
Since I'm still without health insurance I can't take the IR medication I need so I was getting frustrated seeing things spiral out of control again. I was gaining weight again, sleeping too much again, very painful muscles in my feet and legs and lack of menstruation/ovulation for almost a year! All these things, including a growing depression again kept me looking for answers and everything pointed to needing to try supplementing Chromium in my daily intake. Many of the symptoms I have (that are significantly less now.) are the same for people who have a Chromium deficiency.
So I bought a basketful of vitamins. I started a one a day as well as Ester-C and Folic acid in addition to the Chromium. In the matter of two days I stopped having the leg and foot pain that was so painful I'd cry to sleep and 4 days later virtually no leg and foot pain. After a week I started to have a period and most importantly to me I've stopped gaining again and my sleeping is getting to a more normal schedule and I don't feel so depressed.
I'm just so amazed that taking certain vitamins has made such a difference for me. But I know that I was so skeptical about it doing anything that I don't think it would be a placebo effect and I highly doubt that having menstruation would be from a placebo.
I'm feeling stronger again. I had been very weak and then again after the onset of menses but now I'm starting to feel very healthy again. I think I've finally found some really useful info beyond just reducing the Carb intake in my diet.
I'm hoping now that I'll loose some inches because that is one thing that hasn't changed so far, but with the stop in weight gain and with the recent boost in energy and decrease in pain I do hope I'll start to see this happen soon. I'll also have a body wrap to take off some inches and heal my skin in June (we're going to wine country for our anniversary.) so I'm hoping I can do what I can before then to make for the most dramatic results.
Labels: depression, PCOS, vitamines
posted by Celestial Freak @ 3/29/2005 11:55:00 AM
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