PCOS - Embarrassing?

[the-fee-fairy.livejournal.com]

So, i don't know if anyone else has been watching it, but tonight, on UKTV Style, there was a program entitled 'Embarrassing Illnesses'.

There was a couple on there, and the woman had PCOS, Endometriosis and an Underactive Thyroid.

Am i the only one who feels that none of these illnesses is embarrassing?
I have PCOS and i don't find it embarrassing.

They said that they found it embarrassing to tell people that that's why they didn't have children...

I don't have a problem with it, i come right out with it.

I suppose i just wanted to know whether i was the only one annoyed by this concept - the idea that an infertility problem is 'embarrassing', and as it is a women's health issue, and i know that some people in this community also suffer (i hate that word!!) with it too, i wanted to canvas opinion.

So:
PCOS - Embarrassing? Discuss
Endometriosis - Embarrassing? Discuss
Underactive Thyroid (or indeed, any thyroid problem) - Embarrassing? Discuss

I really would like to know others' views and know whether i am overrreacting by being annoyed.

Comments

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Keep in mind that people can find anything embarrassing. There have been many women posting here that are afraid their partner will be turned off because one of their labia is longer than the other, or they're just long in general- or because they have inverted nipples they won't show their breasts.

Getting annoyed with them for a normal human emotion doesn't do you much good- does it? :) Understandable to get annoyed if you feel as though the fact that the person who has the same a condition you do is embarrassed about it translates to the idea that you should too.

Plus- families can be weird about all sorts of things- and in some cases refuse to believe that a problem is real and not just 'in their head.' If that's the case here- I can see why she would be embarrassed.

It would be great if everyone was strong enough so that they could speak up, but few are. Fewer still are really happy in their own skin and with their own bodies. Which is sad. So perhaps think about being sorry for the woman for feeling so badly, but don't get annoyed.

[the-fee-fairy.livejournal.com]

It's not the fact that she is embarrassed to have it, its the fact that in front of the nation, on TV, it is being stated that it is an Embarrassing Illness.

I understand that there are a lot of reasons for someone to be embarrassed, but i find it a bit sick of the TV network to think its ok to tell the nation that it is embarrassing for the woman to have it, it is embarrassing for her to be infertile.

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Ah okay- I misunderstood. Though I wonder if she wrote them because she was embarrassed- and they just went with it because they don't know any better, or if they agree.

[the-fee-fairy.livejournal.com]

not sure...she's on there with her husband (who, apparently has a 'lifestyle disorder').

I don't know who wrote in to the programme.

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

This is terrible but- for some reason the phrase 'lifestyle disorder' makes me giggle...

[the-fee-fairy.livejournal.com]

it made me giggle too, to watch him!

Th 'Lifestyle Disorder' means that his lifestyle is too slow for them to spend time in bed together, and it is too slow for him to take up excercise...yes, he is lazy!

He asked her to run his bath...and to make him a cup of tea...