Yesterday I went to my second doctor's appointment with Dr. Wheeler.
Just a short update on my whole doctor situation. About a month ago, I decided that I was tired of driving all the way to Pocatello to see my midwife. I would always have to schedule a 3-hr trip which included the drive there, doctor's visit and the drive back. Anyways, my sister told me to go see Dr. Wheeler who she is suppose to see but doesn't have insurances so she can't see her yet. Moving on...I scheduled the appointment and went to see Dr. Wheeler. She was very worry about my health. She told me that I shouldn't have all three of my conditions as young as I am. She is really worried about PCOS. She said that it mostly cause the other conditions and once I fix everything I should be fine. She also told me what PCOS really is. We all sat down and talk about a treatment plan and what-not.
Anyways, there are 4 main stages to the treatment plan:
1) Decrease the Insulin - to help with this I would need have a better diet with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables and lots of water. I would also have to make sure my stress is very low...which is a really bad thing for me because I stress really bad almost about everything. How unlucky for me. As for what Dr. Wheeler said how I was doing on this stage is about 75% total...that I have mostly done that. The only problem like I said is that I really need to keep my stress level low.
2) Increase of Insulin Sensitivity - For this stage I would have to exercise a lot and do muscle strengthen training. Dr Wheeler said: I'm doing pretty much everything but I need to work more on the muscle strengthening.
The herb medicine is dietary supplement and she put me on was Metabo-Lift (3x a day one pill) which is the mixture of blackberry leaf mother tincture, urtica dioica (Nettle) leaf mother tincture, pure essential oils of bergamont, cinnamon bark, ginger root, grapefruit, lemon and peppermint (and boy!!! It is nasty!!!), Ultra DM Complex (2x a day two pills), Black Walnut (3x a day one pill) for the top stages.
3) Balance Hormones - I can't really do anything myself so I have some dietary supplement pills (again) which is Chaste Tree Extract (which helps estrogen and progesterone) and Saw Palmetto Extract (which reduces dihydro testosterone) . Them both are suppose to balance and also help with some of the PCOS symptoms that are annoying like no other.
4) Cleanse liver - which at the moment I am not doing. She wanted me to wait for a few months before doing that to make sure that I don't react badly to any of the other medicine I was put on. But the medicine that I will be put on Hepacleanse.
Also, there may be a chance that I have a tumor that is secreting testosterone which also can be cause it so hard to lose all my weight. I will know sometime next week about that. I have to go get some blood test done and see if the testosterone is really high and if it is I have to go get a CAT scan. I will let everyone know as soon as I can if I have to go into surgery for that.
And lastly, we got some good news!! We can actually start having a kid some time soon..like 4 to 6 months. It's really exciting. Actually I told the doctor that we wanted to wait until I get better and that I don't have all this weight to lose before I tried. She said that would not be a very good idea in some ways. She said that in some cases she's had women have a child and all the health problems reverse so she doesn't want us to avoid having one.
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| This is pretty much what I take both mornings and nights plus 4 pills for the afternoon. I fell like a pharmacy.... |
