[Meta] proposal — a flair for insulin resistance posts
proposal — a flair for insulin resistance posts. Short post, long comment section, probably. The hair shedding was the thing that frightened me most and the thing that mattered least. It stopped. The one practical change that makes this board’s hardest questions tractable: annotate your log with the cycle. Hormonal…
Hormonal variation across the cycle affects appetite, fluid retention and subjective symptom intensity independently of anything else, which is why an unannotated log can look mysterious.
Small fix — insulin resistance is a feature commonly seen in PCOS, not a synonym for it.
perimenopause and this overlap in ways nobody has good data on
contraception absorption questions are real and they are worth asking about properly
Perimenopausal, or is that a separate question?
That is a general statement about gastric emptying, and the question was about a specific product.
Anything involving pregnancy, contraception efficacy or fertility planning belongs with a clinician. That is not a disclaimer, it is where the answers actually are.
PCOS is a diagnosis, not a description, and it matters which you mean
PCOS is a diagnosis, not a description, and it matters which you mean
kenji_demir is right that a diagnosis and a finding are different things here.
Agreed that the vocabulary here is imprecise and it causes people to answer different questions to the ones asked.
iron and ferritin questions come up here more than anywhere else on the site