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00:00Hi everyone, my name is Nikita Phulwani. I'm an entrepreneur and content creator living

00:08here in the UAE and I'm here to share my PCOS journey with Gulf News. I think I was first

00:14diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 13 or 14. I did not get my period for maybe one or two

00:19months and with a lot of nervousness, I would have gone up to my mother and told her, hey

00:25mom, I think something's wrong. Bear in mind 10-15 years ago, the words PCOS or the talk

00:31around PCOS was not as normalized as it is today. So I was extremely nervous, extremely

00:38scared and I remember I feared so much going to a gynecologist at that young age and there

00:45being very little information about PCOS. Gathered the courage, took my mom's support,

00:50went to the gynecologist and bear in mind that I was an extremely chubby child. I was

00:56overweight with an extremely poor lifestyle. My food was not exactly healthy. There was

01:03little to no movement from my body on a day-to-day basis. So it is the perfect recipe for a problem

01:11like PCOS to exist. However, over the course of years, given my poor lifestyle, the problem

01:16just kept getting worse. Now this might be too much information, but there was a time I remember

01:22when I was at the peak of my poor weight management, where I wouldn't get my period for maybe

01:28eight to nine months straight. And it's not like I did not try to figure out what the solution would

01:33be. When I visited doctors, some of them would give me certain pills that I did not feel aligned

01:39with or that had too much negative talk around them. So I was extremely apprehensive to take

01:44those. Most doctors would definitely tell me to lose weight, watch what I'm eating, stay away

01:50from sugar and gluten. However, all my attempts pretty much failed. And over the course of years,

01:56my weight just kept getting higher and higher and higher. And the problem of PCOS just kept

02:02getting bigger and bigger. Instead of taking care of things, I think I just started living in denial

02:08and I just kept brushing the problem off because the nervousness around it definitely had an impact

02:14to play. Now if you ask me if knowing that I have PCOS affect me mentally, the answer is yes.

02:20If you want to know how, well certain indicators of PCOS or problems that come if you have PCOS

02:27is hormonal imbalance, because of which you may have facial hair growth, your weight gain.

02:34These aspects directly link to your physical appearance, which are directly linked to how you

02:39feel about yourself, your confidence, etc. So definitely, definitely, definitely it had a

02:45massive impact on me mentally. I think I found myself second-guessing all the time that

02:50something wrong with me, you know, compared to my classmates or my other friends. So that constant

02:56battle and self-doubt was definitely always there. A couple of years later, which is when I think I

03:01turned 28, nearly 14 years later of being diagnosed with PCOS, I actually started working towards my

03:09health and this is when I saw a complete shift in what my PCOS reports were. So for the last three

03:17years, I've actively been working out, watching what I'm eating, drinking plenty water and even

03:23trying to make my sleep better on a day-to-day basis. I work out five times a week and believe

03:28it or not, by taking care of these absolutely basic things, no pills, no medication, I have managed

03:36in my case to literally reverse my PCOS. Now this is my story and my example. Different people may

03:43have different reasons as to why they get PCOS, but what I understood and more so from the recent

03:49blood work that I have done that gets, you know, examined by doctors, they tell me they can find

03:54little to no traces of the fact that I had PCOS. How did I manage that? Literally, the answer lies

04:00in the basics. Just by making sure I live a healthy and active lifestyle, make sure that I

04:07have a balanced diet as well as, like I said, drink enough water and manage my stress and sleep better.

04:15These are the things that doing consistently has actually helped me nearly reverse my PCOS.

Nikita Phulwani - A UAE resident shares her journey in overcoming PCOS

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