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36-40,
anonymous
writes:I think I may have PCOS. I seem to have many of the symptoms, including unwanted facial hair, hair on my nipples and I struggle to loose weight. I first noticed them when I came off the pill a few years ago. (The pill was making me crazy and turning me into a manic depressive). Ever since I have had increased hair growth and for a long time my moods and hormones were all over the place. I don't want to go to the doctor because I am scared. I don't want them to tell me I am a freak, and not a woman or femanine anymore :( I have been single for years and I wonder if it is because of these symptoms that men do not find me attractive. Has anyone else been through this, but managed to find someone who doesn't care about these things?
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reader, CindyCares  +, writes (24 May 2011):
 Excuse me but this frankly is one of the silliest thing I have ever heard. Having an hormonal imbalance does NOT make you a freak , or a half woman, it makes you a person with a condition that needs to be taken care of, and you 'd be neither the first not the last. Moreover, if you actually DO have PCOS, you can't just say "oh bummer " and let it be, because in time it could have serious ripercussions over all your health state - this is about being healthy , not about being pretty!
You should definitely see an endocrinologist, the excessive hairiness could be PCOS, but not necessarily, a specialist will know how to cure you and btw hormonal inbalances are cured with pills, it's not that's a painful or complicated cure.
As for meeting people who does not care about physical defects, there are , but this is not really about them, it's about YOU:
Since you are obviously unhappy and embarassed about your appearance , otherwise you would not be posting on DC, and since you have the possibility to change that, then DO it !
What's the point of complaining about something, and feeling miserable, then refusing to do something about it when it's possible and easy ?
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