Success Series: A 40+ drop in blood sugar levels!

Featuring: Amy Damron

After being diagnosed with PCOS, I was prescribed Metformin and birth control pills. I took Metformin for 7 months, but everyday I would deal with uncontrollable bowel problems and stomach pain. It was unbearable, so I quit taking it. I was mainly taking birth control pills so that it would naturally induce my menstrual cycle.

Refusing to be “conventional”

Despite my attempts to follow my doctor’s advice to control PCOS, I could no longer stand taking the many medicines he prescribed me. My fasting blood sugar was always about 140 every morning. Regardless of what I would eat during the day, I would suffer from hypoglycemia within a few hours of eating. Every day I would get on the scale, and I was ounces or pounds heavier than the day before. I was at my wits end! All of these problems were building up and causing serious anxiety and panic attacks.

At the end of her rope

I was miserable. Taking the medication prescribed to me by my endocrinologist created more anxiety as I would wonder what some new pill’s side-effects would do to my body! I felt like I was 27 years old and at the end of my rope. My doctors made it seem like the only way to deal with PCOS was by taking medicine.

I was fed up. I didn’t really believe in myself at the time, but I thought it definitely wouldn’t hurt to try to get off everything and do things differently. I was scared because the last time I went off birth control, I got raging acne and ended up in the hospital with an enlarged and bursting cyst on my ovary.

Facing her fear and doing it ANYWAY

I tried anyway. I didn’t see any results for the first week or two but then, ounce by ounce and pound by pound, it started to come off just with my walking a mile every other day. I got excited and decided to start eating a lot better.

I knew I had to quit eating all refined carbs and sugar if I ever wanted to get rid of my sugar addiction. So I did. My big problems were sweets. Man, do I love chocolate! I love it so much so that I ate it every day. This, plus my huge dinner portions had made it impossible to lose weight.

Triple Threat Approach in action

So, I ate smaller dinners and cut out sweets after dinner. I invested in an elliptical machine and also just kept walking. I bought some multi-vitamins that had magnesium and chromium which I knew would help with insulin resistance, and I also added cinnamon into my daily meals.

My fasting sugar is currently 94 when I wake up! Isn’t that amazing?! It’s always in the low 90’s now. I can’t believe I had the power to do that the whole time! Just me, nothing else, no medicine. I have lost 32 pounds since July. I currently am still not getting my period but I am not giving up until it comes! I know it will.

For more information on Katie’s “Triple Threat Approach” to combat PCOS, click here.