Tag Archive > PCOS

Crappy suck crappyness

I’m having a bad couple of days, emotionally. Well, emotionally I’m alright I think, but my self esteem which is barely there at the best of times has been utterly erased. Utterly. To the point where I can’t bear the thought of walking out the door tomorrow morning to go to work. I have a [...]

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A History of PCOS by Me – aged 31.

Yesterday as I staggered around Borders wishing for early death (not to be overly dramatical) I told The Boyfriend I’d picked up the PCOS Diet Book and Managing PCOS for Dummies.  He said surely I could write a Dummies guide to PCOS by now, having immersed myself in it for so long.
Apparently not! Quite apart [...]

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Melbourne.

I have a love/hate affair with Melbourne. I love parts of it – Fed Square, the library, the museum, but I hate the streets of it. I think that’s just my thing about crowds really.  Comfest? Love. Food and Wine Festival? Hate. I went in to the city today.
It’s about an hour on the train [...]

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The Great Pretender

One of the issues with PCOS, in my case anyways (I can no more speak for the entire PCOS community than I can speak for all brunettes) is that it is a defeminiser. I don’t know if that’s even a word, but I’m sure you get my drift. I grapple, often, with the concept of [...]

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Big Gal

I have a thing called Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, generally termed PCOS because it’s that much faster to type. In general terms, it means I am fucked up in many ways, not the least of which is my variable weight.  The underlying cause of PCOS is insulin resistance, which means that the body doesn’t understand insulin [...]

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