PCOS update: as I'm trying to come to terms with it and how, uh, it's shaped a lot of my experiences, I've also been trying to find some resources for managing it to a degree. So far I've found:
An infinite amount of resources talking about how you can still get pregnant with it and how I shouldn't be an impediment to that even if you have higher risk of complications (useful for people who want to pursue that, but I'm surely adoption could've been mentioned at some point??)
300000 resources about managing your excess hair and talking about the absolutely harrowing experience of being "a hairy woman". Quite a lot about "Laser hair removal is a MUST!!!"
About a similar amount of articles talking about how to manage your acne
I found a neat study talking about how people with PCOS tend to have lower voices due to the effects of higher T. I thought the study would mention that, being a rather prevalent thing with PCOS, it could be used for diagnosis. Instead, it goes into "EARLY PCOS DETECTION IS IMPORTANT SO WE CAN PREVENT TEENS FROM GOING THROUGH IRREVERSIBLE VOICE VIRILIZATION!!!"
Exactly 0 articles talking about pain management or how to handle the whole "bleeding for 30 days in a row and the consequent anemia that results from that"
I'm not sure how to put this nicely but it's kinda, uh, interesting to see how PCOS resources all cycle back to have people conforming to a very narrow idea of womanhood instead of maybe even remotely trying to help out with the chronic pain stemming from it (even more jarring as a nb person :''))
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