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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
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- Sprache: Englisch
Practical advice and information for living with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a condition in which there is an imbalance of a woman's female sex hormones, and affects an estimated 10% of all women. This hormone imbalance may cause changes in the menstrual cycle, acne, small cysts in the ovaries, difficulty conceiving, high blood pressure, and other problems. It is treatable, but not curable, and sufferers have to rely on themselves for the long-term management of their condition. If you're living with PCOS, this guide gives you the latest information concerning treatments and research into Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
PCOS For Dummies gives you a practical, plain-English guide to living with and managing Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. In addition to providing valuable information concerning the causes and symptoms of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, PCOS For Dummies gives you the facts about the various treatment options that are available, including both traditional medical treatments and alternative therapies.
- Discusses the causes and symptoms of PCOS
- Advice for dealing with this disorder
- Covers the treatments and medicine available in the United States
PCOS For Dummies is an invaluable resource for the millions who are suffering from this condition.
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Table of Contents
PCOS For Dummies®
by Gaynor Bussell and Sharon Perkins, RN
PCOS For Dummies®
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Copyright © 2011 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana
Published simultaneously in Canada
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2011930314
ISBN 978-1-118-09865-3 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-118-12735-3 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-12736-0 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-12737-7 (ebk)
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About the Authors
Gaynor Bussell: Gaynor Bussell is a registered dietitian, a nutrition consultant, and a member of various professional nutrition organizations, including the Nutrition Society and the British Dietetic Association.
Gaynor began specializing in women’s health after taking a short career break to have her two daughters. She worked as a women’s health dietitian for over six years at University College Hospital in London, specializing particularly in PMS, menopause, preconception health, eating disorders, and, of course, PCOS. She also covered the osteoporosis clinic at this hospital. During this time, Gaynor became dietary advisor to a women’s health charity.
Since then, Gaynor has worked at various women’s health clinics, including those at Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte’s. She was also the dietitian for a private residential eating disorders center. Gaynor continues to see private patients who have women’s health issues and/or eating disorders. She also continues to work with various women’s health organizations and charities, and writes and gives talks on various aspects of women’s health.
Gaynor currently works as a consultant for the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), where her role includes acting as the interface on nutritional matters between industry and UK and EU authorities and sitting on a number of decision-making committees.
Sharon Perkins: Sharon Perkins is a registered nurse with over 20 years of experience, mostly in women’s health and ophthalmology. She is also an online medical writer and author of seven For Dummies books, including Infertility For Dummies, Osteoporosis For Dummies, Breastfeeding For Dummies, Endometriosis For Dummies, Healthy Aging For Dummies, and Dad’s Guide to Pregnancy For Dummies (all published by Wiley). She enjoys all her jobs equally but enjoys her three grandchildren, five children, two daughters-in-law, one son-in-law, family, and friends more! She lives in New Jersey but spends a lot of time gallivanting around the country and would live in Walt Disney World if she could.
Dedication
This is dedicated to all the women with PCOS we’ve gotten to know over the years.
Authors’ Acknowledgments
Gaynor Bussell: Thanks to the excellent team at Wiley, in particular Rachael Chilvers and Alison Yates, who kept me encouraged and did not shout too much when deadlines were missed!
Thanks to my family: David and my two daughters, Sally and Jenny. Thanks guys about being good-natured and understanding about my “being on a roll” so that dinner didn’t get served until 10 p.m., again!
Thanks to my work colleagues at the Food and Drink Federation who allowed me to take the time out to write the book and always took an interest in how things were coming along.
Finally, thanks to the team at Next Generation gym. You sorted out my mouse-strained shoulder and gave me excellent workout plans. It was great to go to you as a bolt hole when I needed to think, de-stress, and pound the life out of a treadmill!
Sharon Perkins: It’s always fun to acknowledge all the people who take a book from idea to finished product. Many thanks to our editor, Elizabeth Kuball, who made this book easy from start to finish, and to Acquisitions Editor Erin Calligan Mooney for making it happen in the first place. Also, thanks to technical editor Josh Krotec, for jumping in when I needed him (again!). To all the behind-the-scenes people at Wiley, whose names I never learn but who make each book the best it can be, I’m very grateful.
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Introduction
When you’re first diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), you may have a million questions about how this disorder will affect your life. No one wants a disease that doesn’t have a cure! However, the good news is that you can, with work, keep your PCOS symptoms more or less completely at bay. This doesn’t happen simply by taking a pill or two — you have to put in the effort yourself, and you aren’t going to see results overnight. That’s not a message that everyone likes to hear in today’s instant-gratification society. The rewards are huge though — you get your life back, and you feel so much healthier that you don’t want to return to your old lifestyle.
Put simply, you need to live a healthy life to keep PCOS under control. Lose any excess weight, get fit, tone up, and eat food that’s going to give your body the biggest bang for the buck. In some cases, medications can help prevent complications and get your symptoms under control. All this doesn’t need to be dull and boring: Not only can being physically active be fun, but it can literally change your life. Eating right gives you more energy for life and can taste surprisingly good, too.
For many women with PCOS, pregnancy is a huge concern. Getting pregnant may not be as easy for you as it is for some women, but this book gives you all the info you need on the help that’s out there. If you need fertility treatments, we give you the basic rundown on what to expect.
About This Book
When you’re first told that you have a particular medical condition, people come out of the woodwork to tell you third-hand stories about the experiences of friends and long-lost relatives. And, more than likely, everyone’s advice contradicts the advice of the last person you talked to. You may have looked up PCOS online or leafed through a few books about it. You may even have read articles about it in popular magazines, or read about some celebrity who cured herself by eating nothing but peanut butter sandwiches. What’s a girl to do when faced with the garden of misinformation, half-truths, and dire predictions about PCOS available 24/7 online and elsewhere?
This book gives you down-to-earth and up-to-date advice. It tells you what has worked and what hasn’t for PCOS sufferers, and takes you through what you can be doing for yourself to help reduce your PCOS symptoms, as well as what medical treatments are available for PCOS. Being able to discuss your medical condition knowledgably with your doctor helps you to be a proactive patient.
And it does all this as a reference book — not something you have to read from beginning to end, but something you can dip into to find the information you need when you need it.
Conventions Used in This Book
We use the following conventions throughout this book to help keep things consistent and easy to understand:
When we introduce a new term, we put it in italics and define it shortly thereafter, often in parentheses.
All web addresses appear in monofont. Note:When this book was printed, some web addresses may have needed to break across two lines of text. If that happened, rest assured that we haven’t put in any extra characters (such as hyphens) to indicate the break. So, when using one of these web addresses, just type in exactly what you see in this book, pretending as though the line break doesn’t exist.
What You’re Not to Read
If you want to get straight to the nitty-gritty, and extract all the vital bits as quickly as possible so you can make a start on what you need to do, you can skip the following information and still accomplish your goal:
Text in sidebars: These gray boxes appear here and there throughout the book. They share anecdotes and observations, but they aren’t essential reading.
Anything marked by a Technical Stuff icon: This information pumps you with a few more technical facts or background about a particular subject, but it isn’t essential reading if you don’t want to know the why, just the how.
Of course, when you’re ready (and have the time or curiosity to spare), remember that these pieces of info are well worth dipping into.
Foolish Assumptions
Every For Dummies book is written with a particular reader in mind, and this one is no exception. So, I made the following basic assumptions about you:
You’re not a doctor, so you don’t have (or want) the technical understanding about the PCOS condition, but you are interested in getting a basic understanding of it.
You have PCOS, and you want to know how to reduce your symptoms so that you can improve your quality of life.
You’re confused about the right dietary and exercise route to take to get you on track to reducing your symptoms.
You’re dissatisfied with quick fixes, fads, and wonder diets and treatments and need a realistic alternative that works.
You want straight-talking, understandable information. You want to learn about possible complications and issues that women with PCOS face so you can deal with them intelligently, but you don’t need to become an expert on PCOS.
You want to get pregnant and have heard that pregnancy is difficult for women with PCOS. Rest assured, we address your pregnancy concerns in detail.
You don’t want to spend hours digging around for information, but you do want a one-stop shop that cuts to the chase but doesn’t mislead you.
How This Book Is Organized
The great thing about For Dummies books is that you don’t have to read them all the way through. You can simply turn to the bit you want — a chapter, a section, even just a paragraph. The table of contents and the index help you out. This section gives you an idea of what lies ahead.
Part I: PCOS in a Nutshell
When you’re initially diagnosed with any condition, the first order of business is getting a good enough understanding so that (1) you’re not terrified or panicky and (2) you can make good decisions about how to take care of your health. So, in this part, we give you basic information about PCOS: what it is, what causes it, what symptoms may accompany it, what changes you can expect as you age, and — most important — how you can take control and manage it.
Part II: Taking Control of Your Symptoms
In this part, we talk about the underlying causes of PCOS so you know what you’re dealing with. Then it’s time to discuss all the nitty-gritty topics of everyday life — diet, exercise, medications, supplements, and keeping your mind and body balanced so you don’t go over the edge dealing with it all.
Part III: Menstrual Cycles, Fertility, and Pregnancy
PCOS can really turn your hormonal life upside down, and your menstrual cycle and fertility can take a beating in the process. This part shows you how to turn your menstrual cycle right-side up again and discusses fertility issues that can loom large when you have PCOS. Last, we look at the effects of PCOS on pregnancy and give you tips on how to get pregnant, with or without medical help, and how to deliver a healthy baby at the end of it all.
Part IV: The Part of Tens
This part contains four chapters of ten tips each, which form a quick reference guide. Most of these tips are mentioned throughout the rest of the book, but this part brings them all together as a handy reference.
Here you find tips on the PCOS symptoms that you can diminish by using the advice in this book; discover how to distinguish the good diets from the bad; and identify ten superfoods you can incorporate into your diet to help reduce your PCOS symptoms. Finally, the last chapter lists ten sources of support and advice for people who have PCOS or have a close friend or relative with it.
Icons Used in This Book
Icons are a handy For Dummies way to catch your attention as you slide your eyes down the page. The icons come in several varieties, each with its own unique symbol and meaning.
Your understanding of the health and diet world may be riddled with myths or old wives’ tales. Some of them may be based on truth, but most came from another planet and don’t apply to human beings today. This symbol means that the myth has been exposed for what it is.
This symbol marks the place where you can find explanations of the terms used by nutrition experts.
This icon draws your attention to an important point to keep in mind when dealing with PCOS.
These details add to your understanding of PCOS. You can get on in life perfectly fine without them, so skip them if you want to, but try a few first — they may give you some facts that may help you to answer the questions on obscure quiz shows!
The Tip icon does exactly what it says — cherish these little nuggets because they’re there to make your life a little easier.
This icon points to certain pitfalls or things that may actually harm you. Ignore at your peril!
Where to Go from Here
Where to go from here? Wherever you like, and you certainly don’t need to read from cover to cover, unless you like to follow tradition! You can dive right in anywhere in the book, because each chapter (and even each section) delivers a complete message. The table of contents is detailed enough to help you pinpoint the topic you want to know about.
If you want to know more about exercising to achieve weight loss, go straight to Chapter 6. If pregnancy is foremost on your mind, jump in at Chapter 11. If you’re really not sure where to start, read Chapter 1, which gives you all the basic information about PCOS and helps you decide which area you want to home in on first.
Part I
PCOS in a Nutshell
In this part . . .
This part gives you an overview of everything PCOS related and helps you identify whether you might have PCOS by listing all the symptoms.
In this part, you get some straight facts about your condition, how it plays out in your body, how it changes when you change (such as when you get older or heavier), and how you can start to tackle it.
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