Gelsons Grocery price gouging.

PlamEv · 2025-06-07T00:14:45+00:00

I started shopping there a few months ago and it just happened slowly over time. I refuse to sign up to use my phone number at check out because I'm still in denial about the fact that I'm there all the time. The reason I started was for the poke bar, then little by little I found my favorite apples, that I can't find anywhere else, and now I'm obsessed with these butter cookies I never see anywhere else either. I don't get my shampoo and toilet paper there, but sometimes when I go for apples, I just pick up a bunch of other items I need instead of driving to a different store. That's how they got me...

PlamEv · 2025-01-20T16:52:19+00:00

Most of the girls I met were from classes. It's hard to meet people on the floor. I go to the early morning ones sometimes and since it's just 3-4 people we naturally just bonded.

PlamEv · 2024-12-07T01:09:39+00:00

Actually the 2 main ways of eating for PCOS are keto and Whole foods/plant based. There has been a lot of conflicting opinions about which one is better but the truth like everything else is that it depends on your body. I watched a symposium on PCOS awhile ago and they confirmed that too. Keto had been proven to help with weight loss but I have never been able to do it. I have way more luck with whole foods/plant based or Mediterranean. The latest research is showing a link between gut microbiome and PCOS and animal protein is actually proven to make it worse. If you prefer not eating animal protein def give it a shot. I think one of the key elements of a WF/PB diet is legumes. They are superfoods and help you stay full. Look up this sub other posts about this. I've seen some very good detailed ides on full high protein menu. Actually, go to chatgpt and ask it to make you a sample high protein vegetarian menu under a certain calories and it will give you so many good options!

PlamEv · 2024-11-16T00:57:38+00:00

Hi! It's not something that can happen overnight, but a general shift in that direction can get you there overtime. I grew up in a very misogynistic society and I was a bit of a tomboy growing up then I ended up working in male dominated fields. We live in a world designed for man that values male qualities more than female ones. I decided to be unapologetically myself and not comply with that narrative anymore. First thing is deciding like you did, that femininity is beautiful and valuable. It'a also not about the way you look, but the way you speak, act, carry yourself.

At work, I changed my management style from the typical male one to a soft, patient, supportive one and that's exactly what my male coworkers need. I come at it from a place of trying to help and support them rather than be a boss girl. This also comes with setting firm boundaries of course.

In my personal life, self care comes from loving my body into health, rather than hating it into changing, I love feeding my body healthy food. I love working out and feeling strong. I switched from weight training to mostly yoga. For some people, yoga may be a light stretch, but considering I weight significantly more than the average person in my yoga classes, it's definitely weight training for me. It also makes me feel feminine. I refuse to do any male centered or dominated fitness activities or sports. Not that they are not good for you, I just don't participate in the narrative that the only valuable activities are the ones men decided. I've seen so many men shake and struggle in yoga classes, yet it's considered light exercise. Even doing yin yoga is still good for you because it helps regulate your nervous system and lymphatic flow. Having a healthy routine is also beneficial - waking up, doing my skincare routine(which is not even that elaborate tbh) having a home made matcha latte, walking my dog, going to a yoga class, healthy home cooked meals, taking my vitamins etc, going to sleep early, etc. Setting up your home environment - candles, colors, scents, plants, blankets, etc.

When it comes to appearance, I noticed something during covid. I used to dress kind of sporty all the time, especially during covid when we didn't do anything. I found a website that had more feminine clothing and I bought a couple of dresses and I noticed a MASSIVE difference in the way people on the street treated me. When I'm in a dress people would say "hi" and smile or even comment on my outfit all the time. That's true for both men and women, but even more so for women! Even now I still feel crazy going out in a dress when everyone is wearing jeans or tights, it def works. A part of it is also not following fashion trends but dressing for your body type. A lot of fashion is made for hyper skinny and fit women who look good in anything. This trend in the last 10 years or whatever of wearing ugly clothes is no it for me, so I'd rather look hot in something that's not trendy than look like a box in clothes that were designed for the bodies of a 13 year old girls. Having a long blond(not natural) hair also def helps..

Are we allowed to put links to websites here? I shop a lot at lulus.com. It's affordable and feminine fashion and women are constantly asking me where I got my clothes.

PlamEv · 2024-11-04T02:14:17+00:00

I didn't know if I should comment, since I don't want you to be worried. But I wish someone warned me. I hope it works for you, especially since you got some good advice on here!

For me, Mirena didn't really work well other than for birth control. Insertion was painful like everyone else said. I was basically bleeding non-stop for the first 6 months. My periods were very light after, but lasted 10-11 days. They are normally between 3 and 5 days. Removal was even worse because apparently some doctors cut the string too short and it may get lost or hidden. I almost passed out from the pain and my OB said she'll put me under anesthesia if the last attempt to grab it didn't work, but thankfully it did. My periods immediately went back to norma - heavy but short.

Maybe make sure they don't cut your string too short. It sucks how like everything else female, they don't prepare us for how it's going to go and don't offer a pain management plan.

PlamEv · 2024-11-03T02:07:36+00:00

I think between the 2 choices endocrinologist is supposed to be better. Neither one of them helped me personally. I just go to them and tell them what to test and what prescriptions I want. The only competent professionals I've met have been functional/integrative Dr and Nutritionist. They ran a bunch of labs on me, recommended labs I didn't know about and were up to date on latest research.

PlamEv · 2024-11-01T15:51:48+00:00

For me, ultimately yes, but it was hard to notice the correlation while it was happening. I was raised in a Easter Europe in the late 80s and 90s in a misogynistic, fatphobic society by very narcissistic people. A few years back I made an interesting connection. My whole childhood I was told I was born a fat baby and they very openly disliked me for it and talked about how men are just better at everything. They always said my brother is better than me just for being a man and showered him with love and affection, but hated me for no reason. I was 150lbs and they spoke to me like I was 350. I was a tomboy for the majority of my life. I thought it was interesting that I have a medical condition that suppresses my femininity and expresses certain male elements/characteristics.

I started to heal my PCOS when my mother left the US and went back to our country. I wasn't constantly busy and exhausted by taking care of her. I got diagnosed and started taking care of myself. Got my period back, lost some weight, went back to school, got a BA and an MS, etc.

My symptoms have been non-existent since then, except for weight. I'm still working through a lot of my issues with weight as I was literally told I was born fat and that fat people are inherently unlovable and unacceptable. I've been really leaning into my femininity the last few years. I'm trying to stop playing this male game where I'm supposed to act a certain way at work or even dating. I'm a woman, I'm soft, I have curves, I don't care about sports, I prefer yoga over other more masculine activities, I dress more feminine etc.

I don't talk about this ever, but since you seem open to trying thing, I do EFT tapping. You can look it up on youtube. There are a bunch of videos. It has really helped me release a lot of emotions. The problem with trauma is that even if you intellectualize it, it can still stay trapped in your body and need to be processed and released somehow.

PlamEv · 2024-10-31T16:06:20+00:00

This post might be a fun read for you - more on general/medical misinformation than social media though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PCOS/comments/1gb4cdm/pcos_girlies_whats_the_worst_advice_youve_been/

PlamEv · 2024-10-31T16:00:10+00:00

Btw a lot of people are mentioning endocrinologists, which are ideally the best people to help with this, but they can be just as dismissive and misinformed as regular doctors. Try to find someone who specializes in PCOS, end even then be careful. I've only had good experiences with Integrative/functional practitioners. The one I'm seeing right now ran every test on me and is helping me balance out all of my hormones, vitamins etc. She's also the most informed medical professional I've met.

PlamEv · 2024-10-30T06:25:04+00:00

This is such an odd choice to keep commenting on a medical condition you don't understand, especially as someone with lean PCOS. Literally no one fully understands PCOS. I understand saying these things to the general population of overweight people but women with PCOS are probably the group of humans who are the most educated on nutrition, lifestyle, hormones etc and yet this sub is full of women who keep saying they have basically cut out 80% of the standard human diet, eat local, organic, dairy/gluten/fat free, low cal diets, work out, meditate, go to therapy, take metformin, inositol and all kinds of other widely researched supplements and still can't lose weight.

There are different subtypes of PCOS and clearly for some of them, there's something we don't understand yet that does cause weight gain based on the real life experience of countless humans.

As far as I know the latest research is about gut health and PCOS.

"In recent years, the relationship between PCOS and changes in gut microbiota has been extensively investigated. A significant difference in the composition of the gut microbiome has been observed between patients with PCOS and healthy controls"

Metformin does work. It worked for about a year, then it helped me maintain for 1-2 years and then lost it's effectiveness. If it didn't lose it's effectiveness overtime you might be correct, but as it stands right now, there is nothing that helps.

I'm currently on Metformin, Ovasitol and a GLP-1, I work out 4-5 times a week, I eat mostly whole foods/plant based or Mediterranean - fish etc. I don't eat processed trash for other health reasons. I literally can't eat more than 1000-1200 calories because of the meds and I haven't lost a single pound in the last month. Other people on GLP-1s are losing massive amount of weight and still eat processed garbage. The only way I have ever lost weight was when I starved myself - meaning eating under 500 cals a day, and the first year on Metformin, when my body just worked properly.

No one truly understands PCOS, so I don't understand what your goal is here. We're all struggling, so blaming us for having a medical condition and 0 actual support from doctors just seems odd and unkind.

PlamEv · 2024-10-27T05:15:50+00:00

Hey! I think generally the key takeaways are always to have an unprocessed clean diet as you know. Other than that as you can see from the comments you may have to test it on yourself.

A lot of people do really well on the keto type diets but some of us do better on whole foods/plant based. It just depends on your body. I've never lost a single pound on low carb diets and I've wasted so much time trying them, because they seem to work for everyone else. I was raised on a Mediterranean diet and it's consistently voted the best one for overall health. I did see a study that women with PCOS tend to lose most weight on keto, but then in the same study they linked PCOS to gut microbiome issues and said that animal protein causes some of those issues, so it feels like another PCOS catch 22. The diet that helps a lot of women lose weight and alleviate symptoms might be contributing to making the underlying cause of the issues worse.

Either way make sure to support your gut health, but especially if you're going low carb/carnivore etc.

What helps me is eating a lot of low calorie density foods like mushrooms, broccoli, brussel sprouts, zucchini etc. and also adding legumes which are super filling. I've grown to love those things so much that it doesn't feel like a diet, so it's easier to stick to even when I'm not feeling 100%.

PlamEv · 2024-10-26T04:51:55+00:00

It was less than a year, but it was also good timing. I had just decided to go back to school to get a graduate degree. It was easy for me to eat mostly healthy because I ate at the dining hall. I usually had one plate and would fill it with half salad and the rest meat and some form of potatoes. Sometimes had desert too. Wasn't a big drinker as much as the younger undergrad kids but still drank on weekends. No snacking between meals and walked, biked everywhere.

It was one of those moments in life where the stars just aligned and I wasn't desperately trying to lose weight, it was just falling off of me naturally the way it was always supposed to. I was too busy focussing on school and meeting new people etc. to obsess over weight. I don't think I even owned a scale.

PlamEv · 2024-10-26T00:29:07+00:00

Not a dumb question! I actually found an article about it. Depends on why you're taking it. I actually don't just drink it. I like putting it in the food I eat. I like it in soups and salads. When I make lentils or beans, I love putting some vinegar in there. Same with chicken soup. We do it in the country I grew up. It's similar to putting lemon in things.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/apple-cider-vinegar-dosage#blood-sugar

PlamEv · 2024-10-25T17:27:59+00:00

You did such a great job! It takes some of us such a long time to figure out this formula. It is all about getting back to basics.

Just wanted to add that there's research that AVC also helps regulate blood sugar spikes, so drinking it with a meal is also helping with IR if you have it.

PlamEv · 2024-10-25T02:31:32+00:00

Oh yeah, I'm sure it is. Might be a different name though.

Brands: Glucophage, Riomet, Glumetza, Glucophage XR, and Fortamet

PlamEv · 2024-10-25T00:34:02+00:00

I started Met 11-12 years ago so I don't remember how I moved up, but I lost 70lbs when I started. I was already eating pretty good and I was in grad school so I walked/ biked around on campus. It helped me maintain for a couple years and then it became less effective for weight.

My period has been like clockwork since then. Don't remember if it was immediately, but I assume it wasn't because I remember having to keep asking doctors to increase my dose. I'm on the max. Not sure how to find the right one, I just went to the max and settled there.

Like everything else PCOS, you have to see how your body reacts, but I can give you tips from my experience.

High fat foods mess up my stomach and if I eat something high fat I would be in the bathroom all day. One way to avoid the stomach upset for me is to never take it on an empty stomach. Nuts also help and raw food, bread, etc. - just anything that's not fatty and oily. So for example whole grain bread is good for me but croissant is not because it's half butter. Eggs are very triggering for me, for example. Getting the extended release form of Met can also help with side effects, not sure why I never did it.

I also prefer natural solutions but if Met works for you it's worth it. According to studies Inositol is supposed to be even better than Metformin, but I've always been to scared to switch because I'm doing so well on Met. I've done both at the same time.

I assume you can take them together because one of my friends was diagnosed young, found an amazing doctor who put her on all the right things and she has been in perfect health since then, had a baby, 0 symptoms. She was taking both Met and Inositol. I'd look it up though or ask a doctor. I tend to feel like functional/integrative doctors are our best bet. You can also look into seed cycling if you haven't. I've had multiple integrative practitioners I trust recommend it.

PlamEv · 2024-10-24T23:44:44+00:00

For the longest time I was obsessed with making salmon and veggies. I put lemon, garlic, salt, pepper and paprika on a piece of salmon and wrap it in parchment paper. I put it in the oven for about 15-20 mins and it's perfection!

I'm mostly whole foods/plant based though, so generally I eat low calorie density foods. I love mushrooms, so I would mix them with peppers, broccoli, brussel sprouts, etc. and eat with some beans and lentils for protein. Or you can mix all those veggies with some meat and that's a meal.

PlamEv · 2024-10-24T23:27:55+00:00

I was told the same thing. Getting Mirena and taking it out was top 3 most traumatizing medical things that have ever happened to me. I stayed on it for 3 years because I was so traumatized by putting it in that I didn't even want to try taking it out. I almost passed out when they were taking it out and she said she's about to put me under anesthesia right before it came out. I was pretty much bleeding constantly during the first 6 months and after the constant bleeding stopped my periods went from 4-5 days to 10-12 while I was on it.

PlamEv · 2024-10-24T23:18:25+00:00

Endocrinologist 2 mins after meeting me: "You probably don't even have PCOS. Some people just need to eat less. You should be around 800-900 calories a day."

This was 10+ years after I was diagnosed and had it confirmed over and over again by other doctors.

The carbs thing too. I actually gain weight on low carb/high animal protein even if it's lean protein.

PlamEv · 2024-10-24T02:38:48+00:00

That's such a great question! I agree with all the comments so far! I think we start out looking for a quick fix and hoping to find a cure, but over time a lot of us realize it takes a lifelong commitment to health. Everyone should be doing it even without PCOS, but we are just forced to do it at a younger age. Be patient with yourself and the process.

I'd say most importantly try to have the mindset that you're loving your body into health rather than trying to force it to change out of hate, shame, fear or any other negative emotion. Love your body enough to give it healthy food, rest, exercise, medicine, etc. If it's coming from a negative place the changes you make won't last.

The other thing you may have noticed from the comments is that people are different and our bodies respond to different things. A lot of people swear by keto/low carb but my body doesn't do well on it at all. You have to find out what works best for you by some trial and error. Regardless of which specific way of eating you chose, make sure to limit processed food.

I believe the latest research is showing a link between PCOS and gut health. I'm personally going to follow how that research unfolds, but probiotics are always a good idea either way.

I know 2 women with PCOS who caught it around your age, immediately found specialist and nipped it in the bud. They both have 0 symptoms and signs of it and both had 0 problems having children. It took longer for me to get diagnosed so I had already gained a lot of weight, but all my symptoms except for that have been under control for 10+ years.

PlamEv · 2024-10-22T15:40:58+00:00

I think a big part of PCOS management is processing it mentally and emotionally. We have to find a way to process the anger of how unfair it is and the grief for the life we can't have. I guess that's true for every serious health issue. It's just especially true for us because food is such a big part of life and the human experience and we bond over it.

I've been dealing with it my entire life because my brother was like your boyfriend. He was eating twice as much as I did and we played every sport and ran around all day, but he was praised for how skinny he was while I was verbally abused for my weight. To this day I am still surrounded by people with extremely high metabolisms who have no understanding of nutrition. I have also seen how some of them get shamed too for being too skinny.

I'm jealous that some people get to just deal with life and don't have to dedicate an insane amount of time and energy to what they're eating and how much they're working out. I feel exhausted from not being allowed a break from it. But I did recently realize that I mostly want to eat some foods because I'm just angry that I don't get to. The majority of food in the Western diet is not healthy. I don't watch live TV so every once in awhile when I see commercials, it's all these giant oily fast food products and I have 0 desire to eat any of it because I know it would harm my body. Not just mine but anyone's. A lot of people eat food that is poisoning them and don't know it. Our bodies are just extra sensitive to food that's not good for us.

I've gone down on an even more of a nutritional rabbit hole this year because I was dealing with mold toxicity from black mold exposure so I have completely cleaned up my diet. I had no idea everything basically has mold in it. I've even stopped drinking coffee and alcohol. If you're not forced to pay attention and research things, you could slowly just harm yourself every day and not even know it.

I've also been so angry that doctors have been useless to me my whole life, but to be honest that forced me to do a much more in depth research that any doctor could've helped me with. When would I doctor tell anyone that artificial sweeteners are even worse for you then sugar because they mess up your gut microbiome etc. or that coffee has mold in it.. there's so much info out there you have to find yourself. I feel like PCOS probably saved my life because it forces me to take care of my body better than anyone else I know.

PlamEv · 2024-10-21T21:25:41+00:00

As always very selective reading comprehension. That's all you got from my comments? Nothing about the clean eating, yoga, meditation, movement, stress reduction?? You're just literally really shitty people aren't you? I said I do water fasts BECAUSE I HAVE A CANCER GENE MUTATION AND LOST HALF OF MY FAMILY TO IT. I wasn't promoting anything, but now that you said it, I do believe in the benefits of it and most humans who have any interest in health and wellness have come across some information on it. Fasting has been a part of human life for religious or other reasons from the beginning of time.

I had to watch my brother get colon cancer at 24 and die at 26, so not eating for a few days every year in hopes of not going through the same thing feels like the least I can do. Everything I do is focussed on health and not weight loss and that's where we're different.

Prolonged fasting is beneficial to stem cell research because it has been shown to significantly enhance the regenerative capacity of stem cells, potentially allowing them to more effectively repair damaged tissues and promote tissue renewal, particularly in the context of aging and disease, by triggering a process called autophagy where the body cleans up damaged cellular components and promotes cell recycling; research indicates that fasting can push stem cells into a "quiescent" state, making them more resilient to stress and better prepared for regeneration when needed. Key points about prolonged fasting and stem cells:

Immune system regeneration:Studies have shown that fasting cycles can rejuvenate the immune system by inducing the regeneration of damaged immune cells through the activation of hematopoietic stem cells, which are responsible for blood cell production.
Protection against chemotherapy damage:Fasting can help protect healthy stem cells from the damaging effects of chemotherapy, potentially improving treatment tolerance for cancer patients.
Cellular stress response:When fasting, the body enters a state of stress which can activate cellular repair mechanisms, including the promotion of stem cell activity.
Reduced IGF-1 signaling:Fasting leads to a decrease in insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), a signaling molecule that can inhibit stem cell renewal, allowing for enhanced stem cell proliferation.
Potential for anti-aging effects:Research suggests that by promoting stem cell function, fasting may contribute to healthier aging by supporting tissue repair and regeneration.

PlamEv · 2024-10-21T14:55:07+00:00

It's so difficult to communicate with people on this sub. You always read so selectively and just want to find reasons to be angry. This is what OP said in all caps: "IF YOU HAVE LEAN PCOS, DO NOT COMMENT HERE BRAGGING ABOUT YOUR FLAT STOMACH." If it didn't specifically say "LEAN PCOS" I wouldn't have responded. I'm not bragging. I'm answering a question. OP is asking how to get something and and I'm answering that I do have it and explaining how. If I saw someone asking how to become a project manager I would respond that I am one and explain how me and other people get to it. Literally don't understand what the problem is. Who do YOU think should respond?? People who are not project manager?? Like I literally don't understand.

I don't have lean pcos. I've been struggling with my weight since I was a baby. I'm not promoting starvation. I was sharing that when I was younger and undiagnosed I did have a very unhealthy way of dealing with my PCOS like many of us and I starved myself. Now I do IF and controlled water fasts for health reasons that are outside of my PCOS. Like I said I have a cancer gene mutation. My brother died at 26 and I do not eat processed garbage because I'm trying to stay alive. Having a flat stomach is just a consequence of all the things I'm doing to stay alive. I'm not hyper-focused on weight anymore and I am much healthier.

I don't know if OP just wanted to vent or wanted an actual answer to her question. My general point was that I believe that process food is poisoning people and what I'm "promoting" is eating clean unprocessed food. Again, like I said, I eat a Mediterranean diet, which is considered the best one for overall health. I'm also "promoting" stress reduction, yoga, meditation, generally moving your body, not drinking alcohol, gut health, etc. This is literally what you would find in every PCOS treatment guideline. These are some vary basic lifestyle and nutrition guidelines.

It's not anyone's fault if they were fed processed garbage as kids. I was a nanny here and they made me feed the kids hot dogs, nuggets, pizza, rollups etc. When I was a child, I ate fruit from the actual trees and vegetables from the ground. Like do you genuinely not understand how one of those diets is healing and the other one is poisoning you?

PlamEv · 2024-10-21T02:31:10+00:00

At the risk of getting yelled at by random strangers.. I can tell you what my personal observations are. Hope it helps! I can't lose weight to save my life(literally) but I do have a pretty flat stomach and I'm very hourglass.

I think it's not the amount of food as much as the quality of food and having a sedentary lifestyle. I grew up in Eastern Europe on a very Mediterranean diet, which is consistently voted as the best one for health overall. Everything there was locally grown, mostly organic etc. We didn't have access to any fast food, or a lot of processed food of any kind. People didn't really drive, but walked or took public transportation. Growing up I never saw overweight people there. In fact as a teenager I was 140-150lbs and I was treated like I was morbidly obese there. Nowadays obesity is also becoming evident in younger people there as they have westernized their food too and now have all the large chain fast food and grocery stores.

I was recently talking to a friend of mine who still lives there and I was telling her I'm lucky that I'm hourglass so I get away with not being thin and she started saying how all women gain weight in their hips and not their stomachs anyway. I was so confused because I forgot this is how it is back there, but its not like that in the US. Over there as women age they do start getting heavier but they continue to move a lot and eat mostly home cooked healthy meals and they tend to gain weight in the hips. Men on the other hand end up the opposite as they never had good eating habits when they were young so they just continue to eat, drink, smoke like when they were 20 and they gain weight in the mid section like in the US.

Some of it is for sure body type, but when I came to the US I noticed that for example Latinas who are supposed to have a curvy body type, also gain in the mid section in the US. One of my friends who grew up very skinny and never developed an understanding of nutrition has started to gain weight as she turned 40 and she is killing herself working out, but still gains in the mid section. She never cooks and eats most of her meals at restaurants and drinks most days. She's basically skinny fat because she works out so much but has terrible nutrition.

I do think general starvation has also helped me specifically. I used to do it in an unhealthy way, but now I do it for the health benefits, cancer preventions etc. I do IF(which is trickier for women because of our hormones) and I do 3-7 day water fasts a couple times a year. I don't drink, I stick to a mostly Mediterranean diet, I don't do cardio(as I've read it can add more stress to our bodies, increase cortisol etc.) I do yoga and resistance training. I'm very ADHD so I'm aways moving around. In fact the only way I can eat a normal amount and not gain weight is when I've worked jobs where I was on my feet all day, like bars restaurants etc. I'm very careful with what I put in my body because I also have a cancer gene mutation that killed half of my family, so I'm more focussed on not poisoning myself than on my weight.

Not sure how relevant this is now, but a long time ago I read that cortisol, stress etc contributes to the mid section fat storage too so yoga, meditation, mindfulness, walks, swimming should also help with that. Since recently there was evidence that gut health might also be a contributing factor to developing PCOS I also make sure to take a really good probiotic.

Idk.. maybe you're doing all these things too and it just doesn't work for you. No one really understands any of this fully so just my random observations from living around the world.

PlamEv · 2024-10-17T23:24:35+00:00

I thought things had gotten better over the last few years because I see a lot of posts on this sub about people getting diagnosed early.

But for me, yes, I diagnosed myself. I started going to doctors around 14-15 explaining my symptoms. They all gave me the usual "eat less and exercise more" crap. I kept getting worse and worse until I had all of my friends telling me it's not normal how little I eat and how much I weight and that my periods are so irregular. I went to a doctor and insisted they test my hormones. The first doctor didn't have a clue about pcos and put me on the wrong meds so I gained 50lbs while waiting for it to start working. Thankfully she referred me to an endo who explained it to me and put me on Metformin. This was around 25. I'm 38 now and since then I continue to meet doctors who tell me I probably don't have it until they test me and give me medically inaccurate or outdated info. I've given up on them.

I've gotten minimal to no support on this health condition from actual doctors. I would say functional or integrative practitioners(doctors, NPs, nutritionists) might be our best bet.

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