Tulin's story ...
Tulin Reid, Chairperson of PCOSLiving and ex-spokesperson for the PCOSA talking about A New Dawn
I am so excited that I am going to skip to the end of my
story right away - it works!
Please excuse my excitement but over the past few years I have
had very little to be excited about, PCOS has dominated my life.
I am just two weeks into the treatment offered in Ian Stoakes' A
New Dawn, it really looks like my living nightmare may be coming
to an end.
Okay, phew, let's get down to some specifics. I have lost 18
lbs. (from 246 lbs. - 228 lbs.) that is more than 5 percent of
my body weight in a couple of weeks! Since June 8th, 2005, I
have lost a total of 25.25 inches! Remember, reducing body
weight by 5 percent is enough to restart ovulation. But that is
not all, my fatigue has completely disappeared; before starting
the program, I was sleeping 2 to 3 hours a day and still having
to go to bed early in the evening and sleeping for 9 hours. Not
only am I not tired but now I am actually able to go for long
walks without exhaustion or pain, in fact, all my joint pain has
gone away as well! And I literally bounce out of bed in the
morning - believe me, I have never done that before.
I told you I was going to skip to the end of the story so, be
warned! When I met Ian, I was so embarrassed; I felt tears
pricking at the back of my eyes constantly. I was so depressed,
I cried a few times when I was talking to him but he dismissed
it as simply part of PCOS. He promised me that depression was a
physical manifestation of inflammation, along with all the other
symptoms of PCOS and, you know, he is right. My depression no
longer exists - it is as if a fog has been lifted.
My sex drive was non existent for some time, but that is on its
way back slowly but surely. My yellow eyes, complete with dark
circles under them have gone and the cellulite (miracle of
miracles) is going. At the best of times my sex drive rode
around in an old truck but I am rapidly morphing into a sports
car before my own eyes.
I have been tortured by migraines for years but since following
Ian's advice I have not had one, in fact, I have not had a
single headache (2-3 per week in the past) either. And, let's
get personal for a moment, my bowel movements have normalized.
This is bliss. No headaches, no stomachaches, no joint aches. My
sweat, which used to embarrass me, no longer smells! My nails
are strong and my eyes are white and bright.
But, you know, it is possible to fool yourself and get caught up
in the euphoria of something new. Last week I had the chance of
a second opinion - from my doctor. This is the doctor who
originally diagnosed PCOS. I was so grateful to him. For years
doctors had dismissed me as a hypochondriac – I bled so badly
that I had to buy a new couch; one doctor claimed that the 11cm
cyst and the bleeding was nothing to worry about. Believe me, I
was so weak that I had to be walked (or carried at times) to the
bathroom. Another doctor told me that she was washing her hands
of me because I refused to take Lupron any more. Like everyone
else, I was given the normal drugs but they simply made me worse
and, and I was rapidly slipping into the hands of the
psychiatric profession. But what I had wasn't going to be talked
away, I knew I was ill and I had to find someone who would
listen and help me.
My doctor diagnosed PCOS and confirmed my Endometriosis. I told
him that I could not take any more drugs and started on a
Herculean self-improvement program. I lost weight (around 70lbs)
and started to see the symptoms of PCOS reducing - but at a
price! I was exercising like a madman but I was tired all the
time, I simply could not keep up the pace and, slowly but
surely, the symptoms resurfaced. After the symptoms became full
blown and I gained back 64 lbs. of the 70 lbs I lost. Then I met
Ian.
As I said, June 8th, 2005 I went back to my doctor and he was,
to put it mildly, wide-eyed. Without medication, just as Ian
predicted, my cholesterol and blood sugar had normalized - I
want to repeat that, without medication my cholesterol and blood
sugar had normalized! When my Doctor conducted my pelvic exam,
he could not find any trace of endometriosis where it once was
obvious! I brought copies of the books to my Doctor and as he
flipped through the abstracts he said, 'Any author who spent the
time to
gather this much research information in a book, should be
commended' and, to my total delight, said that in the next
couple of months I may not have PCOS - exactly what Ian had
promised me.