So two years ago I was diagnosed with PCOS (though they suspect I’ve had it for a long time since I was a kid because I had unusually high insulin levels and weight [for my lifestyle] even though I was a pretty active kid and didn’t have diabetes) and vWD (von Willebrand’s Disease) which caused me to have six-month-long periods. They gave me blood transfusions, birth control pills, yadda yadda…Now here we are, two years later. I’d missed my period for six months again, while on the pill, and then eventually stopped taking the pill because I was getting extremely sick…A month and a half ago, they jump started my period with progestrone (agestin or something like that) put me back on the pill (aviane) and I was still bleeding so much that it would run down my legs whenever I got up, and my underwear and clothes and pads were sopped with blood (sounds gross, I know, but an important detail–it was like someone just gutted me from down there and left me to bleed, like some excessively grotesque horror movie). Last week (Monday) I went to the ER and they put me on Low Ovral (then sent me home because my hemoglobin was just 10.5 and no serious drop), four pills for two days, then three for two days, two for two days, and then one a day. I was still bleeding, and what’s more, I got extremely sick. They’d also prescribed Zofran for the nausea but my insurance would only pay for a five-day supply and so I have to use it very wisely. Now I’m still bleeding, even more just after I take the pill and then SLIGHTLY less a few hours after, I feel hungry all the time but at the same time I don’t want to eat because everything makes me want to throw up (I tried filling up with water and fruit but that only makes the cramps and nausea even worse), I get excruciatingly painful cramps and very bad headaches, I feel in a daze, sometimes dizzy, and I have this constant pain in my stomach and just below the uterus that worsens on top of the cramps and LOTS of vaginal cramps. I’m also sluggish, sleepy, and fatigued–I can’t even walk up steps without feeling winded. I started to sleep untill NOON when I’m used to waking up at 6am. While I used to go on walks for HOURS nonstop, practice dance routines for two hours straight every day, and go to theatre/dance classes on weekends, now I can’t even practice a one-minute routine without feeling like I could just collapse on the spot. I can’t even stand for long periods of time. Everyone keeps saying it’s because of my weight (I’m 90lbs over, even though the PCOS counts for a lot of it) but I’m LOSING weight now (pushing myself to exercise regularly but not as intensely as I used to) and there’s still NO DIFFERENCE. If anything, things are getting worse. I notice now that I can’t even eat a slice of cake or a single veg’n candy bar (which I don’t do often) without it sticking to the ugly, annoying fat I’ve already got. Furthermore, I’m a VEGETARIAN. No one seems to think it’s strange that a vegetarian who is as active as I am is THIS fat. Furthermore, everyone in the doctor’s office tends to dismiss a lot of my symptoms because they believe that fat people can’t be as active as I was.

That’s the same mentality that got me to a 3.5 hemoglobin two years ago, and still trying to push myself (walking through unbelievable heat and long distances) to prove that I wasn’t a weak person (which was what I thought and what everyone told me before I got diagnosed) and thus almost KILLING myself. Now everyone’s doing the same thing–calling me a lazy fatty, making me eat less even though it makes me sick, telling me I’m doing all this to myself, making me out to be weak as a woman (girl, really, since I’m sixteen).

I seriously think something is wrong with me. Right now I’m in and out of very bad pain and nausea. I have a terrible headache and feel dizzy sometimes as I am walking. Should I perhaps go to the hospital? Do you think something is really wrong with me? What the hell should I do? I’m so frustrated!

Also, I get checked regularly for blood sugar and insulin levels and the doc said that my frequent exercise and healthy diet is keeping the insulin down and that my blood sugars are all normal. I doubt I have diabetes, even though everyone keeps suggesting it. I also don’t have all the symptoms of diabetes, just one or two of them and the same symptoms could apply to a LOT of other well-known illnesses I’ve researched…certainly not a basis to diagnose me with diabetes. I also get my cholesterol levels checked and though my triglycerides are SOMETIMES just a little high, nothing serious has happened and I usually keep it down. The "Good Cholesterol" has been at a good level.
Got checked for fatty liver as well…found nothing.

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So two years ago I was diagnosed with PCOS (though they suspect I’ve had it for a long time since I was a kid because I had unusually high insulin levels and weight [for my lifestyle] even though I was a pretty active kid and didn’t have diabetes) and vWD (von Willebrand’s Disease) which caused me to have six-month-long periods. They gave me blood transfusions, birth control pills, yadda yadda…Now here we are, two years later. I’d missed my period for six months again, while on the pill, and then eventually stopped taking the pill because I was getting extremely sick…A month and a half ago, they jump started my period with progestrone (agestin or something like that) put me back on the pill (aviane) and I was still bleeding so much that it would run down my legs whenever I got up, and my underwear and clothes and pads were sopped with blood (sounds gross, I know, but an important detail–it was like someone just gutted me from down there and left me to bleed, like some excessively grotesque horror movie). Last week (Monday) I went to the ER and they put me on Low Ovral (then sent me home because my hemoglobin was just 10.5 and no serious drop), four pills for two days, then three for two days, two for two days, and then one a day. I was still bleeding, and what’s more, I got extremely sick. They’d also prescribed Zofran for the nausea but my insurance would only pay for a five-day supply and so I have to use it very wisely. Now I’m still bleeding, even more just after I take the pill and then SLIGHTLY less a few hours after, I feel hungry all the time but at the same time I don’t want to eat because everything makes me want to throw up (I tried filling up with water and fruit but that only makes the cramps and nausea even worse), I get excruciatingly painful cramps and very bad headaches, I feel in a daze, sometimes dizzy, and I have this constant pain in my stomach and just below the uterus that worsens on top of the cramps and LOTS of vaginal cramps. I’m also sluggish, sleepy, and fatigued–I can’t even walk up steps without feeling winded. I started to sleep untill NOON when I’m used to waking up at 6am. While I used to go on walks for HOURS nonstop, practice dance routines for two hours straight every day, and go to theatre/dance classes on weekends, now I can’t even practice a one-minute routine without feeling like I could just collapse on the spot. I can’t even stand for long periods of time. Everyone keeps saying it’s because of my weight (I’m 90lbs over, even though the PCOS counts for a lot of it) but I’m LOSING weight now (pushing myself to exercise regularly but not as intensely as I used to) and there’s still NO DIFFERENCE. If anything, things are getting worse. I notice now that I can’t even eat a slice of cake or a single veg’n candy bar (which I don’t do often) without it sticking to the ugly, annoying fat I’ve already got. Furthermore, I’m a VEGETARIAN. No one seems to think it’s strange that a vegetarian who is as active as I am is THIS fat. Furthermore, everyone in the doctor’s office tends to dismiss a lot of my symptoms because they believe that fat people can’t be as active as I was.

That’s the same mentality that got me to a 3.5 hemoglobin two years ago, and still trying to push myself (walking through unbelievable heat and long distances) to prove that I wasn’t a weak person (which was what I thought and what everyone told me before I got diagnosed) and thus almost KILLING myself. Now everyone’s doing the same thing–calling me a lazy fatty, making me eat less even though it makes me sick, telling me I’m doing all this to myself, making me out to be weak as a woman (girl, really, since I’m sixteen).

I seriously think something is wrong with me. Right now I’m in and out of very bad pain and nausea. I have a terrible headache and feel dizzy sometimes as I am walking. Should I perhaps go to the hospital? Do you think something is really wrong with me? What the hell should I do? I’m so frustrated!

Also, I get checked regularly for blood sugar and insulin levels and the doc said that my frequent exercise and healthy diet is keeping the insulin down and that my blood sugars are all normal. I doubt I have diabetes, even though everyone keeps suggesting it. I also don’t have all the symptoms of diabetes, just one or two of them and the same symptoms could apply to a LOT of other well-known illnesses I’ve researched…certainly not a basis to diagnose me with diabetes. I also get my cholesterol levels checked and though my triglycerides are SOMETIMES just a little high, nothing serious has happened and I usually keep it down. The "Good Cholesterol" has been at a good level a
Got checked for fatty liver…also normal.

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In 1990 the founder of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Ingrid Newkirk told a reporter that if an AIDS cure resulted from animal research, “we’d still be against it.” I appreciate the efforts that animal activists put forth on securing animal rights, emphasizing that animals are not ours to be tested on. However, when it comes to ensuring human life, I disagree. Should we not take the best lead we have to cure a disease like AIDS, which has already killed 28million people? Should we take thousands of animals and place their lives above millions of people, which they have saved and will save? Scientific effort based on animal testing is a sacrifice that must be made to pledge the safety of human health. Without these mammals for testing, scientific progress crucial to the safety and development of medicine and food will drop sharply. If humanity risks such a decline in scientific progress, people around the world will face limitations on food and future medical treatments.
The most important reason humanity requires animal testing is to solve medical issues. One of the advantages of animal testing is the ability for medical procedures to be run safely and efficiently on humans after testing it on animals. Open-heart surgery, which is now the most common form of heart surgery in the U.S, required about 20 years of animal testing on cats by Doctor John Gibbon of Jefferson Medical College to ensure safety and efficiency. Unfortunately, not all medical procedures pass through sufficient testing before entering the market. The Food and Drug Administration distributed a jaw implant called Vitek in 1983, without sufficient testing. This malfunctioned jaw implant resulted in thousands of people suffering from severe pain when their jaws were literally torn apart. One year later, scientists tested the Vitek jaw on canine dogs, which resulted in immediate jaw damage and erosion. Had the FDA required such testing, many painful and permanent injuries would have been prevented*.
In the past, many diseases like Polio and Diabetes killed hundreds of thousands of humans. The only way scientists were able to combat these diseases was through animal testing. One of the best accomplishments made through animal testing was the vaccine for polio developed in1955, an epidemic that killed about 60,000 people a year, targeting primarily children. A doctor named Jonas Stalk was determined to find prevention not with his patients, which several scientists tried and failed, but within his lab. Injecting approximately 17,500 monkeys with the disease, he was finally able isolate the three viruses that caused polio and developed a vaccine for each that was able to prevent humans from getting Polio.
Today, people take the wellness and life span of diabetes patients for granted. Before 1969, the fear of severe Diabetes was much, much greater. According to the Nobel Prize Committee and Medical Doctor Andrew Dexter from UCLA, patients back then with sever diabetes were only spared a few more years by following extreme diets and undergoing constant pain. Luckily, two Nobel Prize winning scientist, Frederick G. Banting and John Macleod, discovered Insulin from experimenting on a dog with Diabetes and another dog without. By removing the pancreas, an organ that regulates sugar, of a dog, diabetes developed in the dog a week. However, when injecting the diabetic dog with a pancreatic formula, called insulin, extracted from the healthy dog, the diabetic dog lived a healthy life as long as it kept receiving the injection. This proved to be true in humans as well because patients who died from diabetes had a damaged pancreas. When Insulin was distributed throughout America to humans, patients with severe diabetes with only days to live recovered as long as they kept receiving their injections.
Unfortunately, scientists are unable to find a cure or treatment for every disease. Animal testing alone provides a huge potential for scientists to find a cure for today’s toughest diseases like AIDS. First off, scientists require thorough information on the virus before looking for a cure. Fortunately, this was made possible by examining similar immune deficiencies syndromes in mice, cats, and monkeys. One major understanding the AIDS Foundation discovered was that the AIDS virus is a retrovirus, meaning that it can only duplicate with a special enzyme, or “helper” chemical. The majority of mammals possess these similar enzymes, each producing a different disease similar to AIDS. By understanding how AIDS works from animal models, scientists have better chance to stop the AIDS virus from duplicating. Even though a vaccine is currently eluding us, animal testing s

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Aren’t they opposite? It seems as though hypoglycemia may occur if taking diabetes medication, but I am not.

How can the coexist untreated???
To The Orange Evil: Thanks for helping out with my Q’s.

Based on these, do you think I could be diabetic? Test on Monday…but worrying NOW.

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(im 15, i have PCOS and im not REALLY over weight, but im 5′1 and about 135 pounds and im trying to lose 20 pounds but its sooo hard i just can’t do it ! ) P.S. If my doctor allows me to take metformin i will most likely be taking birth control with it…

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(im 15, i have PCOS and im not REALLY over weight, but im 5′1 and about 135 pounds and im trying to lose 20 pounds but its sooo hard i just can’t do it ! ) P.S. If my doctor allows me to take metformin i will most likely be taking birth control with it…

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(im 15, i have PCOS and im not REALLY over weight, but im 5′1 and about 135 pounds and im trying to lose 20 pounds but its sooo hard i just can’t do it ! ) P.S. If my doctor allows me to take metformin i will most likely be taking birth control with it…

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p.s. – I also have high cholesterol. I take Metformen for the Diabetes and Crestor for high cholesterol. So far the cholesterol is under control. My blood sugar readings have been around 95 to 122.

Thanks in advance.

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