As others have said, the hair growth and the weight gain due to PCOS can be embarrassing. When it was just this vague thing, diagnosed by my then-gyno and then never meaningfully addressed by her again, I felt like it was still all my fault somehow. Like, yeah, I've got this problem that hardly anyone has heard of, but it's not like I can get a t-shirt made up that reads, I'M NOT FAT BECAUSE I'M LAZY, IT'S A DISEASE SYNDROME. REALLY. I SWEAR. So I just walked around feeling hideous. Finding a good doctor and getting appropriate medication changed that for me, but yeah, I can understand the embarrassment factor.
But I agree that it's pretty irritating to have it described as an "embarrassing illness" because that seems to reinforce the idea that people who have it *should* be embarrassed. And that sucks. Oh, and I definitely don't feel embarrassed that it's made me infertile. Sad, but not embarrassed.
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Date: 2006-02-07 05:38 am (UTC)DISEASESYNDROME. REALLY. I SWEAR. So I just walked around feeling hideous. Finding a good doctor and getting appropriate medication changed that for me, but yeah, I can understand the embarrassment factor.But I agree that it's pretty irritating to have it described as an "embarrassing illness" because that seems to reinforce the idea that people who have it *should* be embarrassed. And that sucks. Oh, and I definitely don't feel embarrassed that it's made me infertile. Sad, but not embarrassed.