question about PCOS and Gastro Bypass

I would like to know if anyone has or knows someone who has had a Gastro Bypass while having PCOS and what affect it had on them?Did the PCOS go away because of the weightloss?

I had the RNY gastric bypass 4.5 years ago and have done well.  I also have PCOS and all of my symptoms except for the facial hair went away.  Unfortunately once the hair grows in the only way to remove it is laser or something like that.  Anyway the weight loss reversed my IR, diabetes, infertility, skin tags, acanthosis nigricans (AN...the dark patches of skin)...all of it.

Good luck!

I've developed PCOS and the test results don't add up but I'm terribly sick with this cycle issue.

what cycle issue?

My symptoms have gotten much better. As far as I understand it, PCOS doesn't really "go away", rather, it kind of "quiets down" or goes into remission, if you will.

The propensity towards PCOS is something you will still have, so if you were to gain weight again, your PCOS symptoms would be likely to return.

I am very glad I had RNY to help manage my PCOS.

I am new to this forum, but I wanted to tell you about a "diet" regimen that my family has been on for the past 10 months.  Please feel free to check out my profile for the "whole" story - I always tell people that "A kid with Down syndrome saved my life", because if it hadn't been for our youngest daughter being diagnosed with Celiac Disease, I never would have started on a "research journey" that has led me to discover a "diet" (actually, it's more of a lifestyle) that EVERYONE can live with for the rest of their life.

Have you ever been tested for Celiac Disease?  I urge you to get tested ASAP, as many seemingly unrelated health conditions (Lupus, PCOS, diabetes, asthma, arthritis, osteoporosis, obesity, infertility, just to name a few) can be caused by undiagnosed/untreated CD.  CD is a malabsorptive condition, and up to 40% of people who are diagnosed with CD are overweight, with 30% of that number being morbidly obese (this goes against what the medical community has been taught).  If you have CD (or Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity) and you go on a Gluten-Free (GF) diet, you will more than likely find that the pounds start to fall off without you doing anything other than eliminating gluten from your diet.

Incidentally, if you are diagnosed with CD, the LAST thing that you want to do is have WLS - you would be compounding a treatable form of malabsorption (CD) with a surgically-induced form of malabsorption (WLS).  While CD is usually COMPLETELY reversible on a GF diet, WLS is NEVER totally reversible - once part of the intestines have been compromised and/or removed, there is no going back.  I urge you to go to the message boards on www.celiac.com and enter "Weight Loss" in the Search box.  There are many stories of people who have lost over 100 pounds simply by eliminating gluten from their diet.  It is MUCH easier than most doctors think, and not as restrictive as most patients are led to believe.

I know about CD because our youngest daughter was diagnosed with it last April (she had NO symptoms, it was picked up on a routine blood screening for kids with Down syndrome).  Since then, I have been on a GF diet and have dropped from 275 lbs. to 237 lbs. while eating all of the foods that I love.  It is, without a doubt, the EASIEST "diet" that I have ever been on!  The other benefit that I have found - quite unexpectedly - is that ALL of my bloodwork numbers have improved, the arthritis in my knee disappeared within 24 hours of going GF, and I have more energy than I did when I was a teenager.  The reason that all of this wonderful stuff happened is that for the first time in a long time my body was absorbing ALL of the nutrients that I ingested - it's that simple.

You may want to try a gluten-free diet for a while and see what happens.  I have been amazed at our family's results over the past 10 months.  Best of all, it doesn't "feel" like a diet at all!  Some people who have excess weight have Celiac Disease and don't know it.  There is a blood test that can be run, but if you don't have any other health issues, it is possible that you are just gluten sensitive.  Either way, the "cure" for both conditions is a GF diet for life.

The reality is that SO many more people are Gluten-Sensitive than have actual CD, but a person has to have a CD screen run first to determine if they do, indeed, have it.  Only 3% of people who have CD actually know that they have it, yet almost 1% of the general population is believed to have it.  That's a LOT of undiagnosed Celiacs!

If you go to

 

Links to Obesity/CD Related Articles: 

Obesity, Overweight & Celiac Disease

 

Link to Essay about Gluten Sensitivity: (This is EXTREMELY informative!)

http://www.baumancollege.org/pdfs/articles/Gluten_Sensitivit y.pdf

 

Link to Celiac Disease / Gluten Sensitivity Symptoms:

http://www.celiac.com/articles/1106/1/Celiac-Disease-Symptom s/Page1.html
 
Teresa Koch
Fort Worth, Texas