I've been reading up online about PCOS. I am calling the dr tomorrow to set up an appointment as soon as possible (the GP, an OB/GYN is about 25 minutes away, ty for letting me know GP's can treat this). Anyways, I was reading that PCOS goes with insulin resistence (can someone clarify, is it insulin resistence that leads to PCOS or the other way around?). Anyways, my husband was diagnosed as diabetic so with PCOS I figured I'd track my glucose. If I understood what I've been reading correctly, insulin resistence would make my levels high... I'm low. I'm in the pretty low range of normal. Is that right?

What determines if you have diabetes or not is high glucose levels. There are many ways to determine insulin resistance but it how well your body balances your glucose levels which is hard to tell with a single glucose test.

PCOS generally isn't caused with insulin resistance but they generally go hand in hand. Often PCOS is triggered with excess weight and then PCOS makes it easier to gain weight and harder to lose weight. PCOS can go away with proper food and weight loss just as diabetes can go away.

It depends on which stage your body is in.

You become resistant to insulin first. Then some people go onto pre diabetes and then full blown diabetes. Some of this is due to genetics.

Okay, phew... ty. So insulin resistence isn't necisarrily present just because of PCOS? I am having a hard time with the weightloss portion. I had at one point even started working out 2 hours a day, 5 days a week, had lowered caloric intake and could NOT get my weight to drop more than 5 pounds. I had weighed less than I do now at that point.
Is there anything I can do to get the weight loss moving with the PCOS?

My endocronologist (who is the leading PCOS doc/expert in Australia) has a radical view on many things is as well as where he stands on IR. His belief is that anyone who has PCOS is insulin resistant (even if blood tests dont show it). He goes on further to say that even when you have reversed it (as I had last year & my blood tests were stellar) that you are always predisposed to being IR and so have to be vigilant.

Its a complicated & confusing thing this PCOS, isnt it?

- exercise (moderate) daily if possible to keep insulin in check
- possibly medication if your doc thinks you need it
- keep stress levels lowwwwwwwwww (I gotta work out how to do this one)
- and a low GI diet that doesnt cause the insulin spikes and storage of fat bcos our bodies dont deal with it like people who are not IR.

PCOS is NOT triggered by excess weight! It does make symptoms worseand harder for those of us that are overweight. Tell the hundreds of infertile tiny tiny women that PCOS is for fat women!