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Forensic News Journal
India Has A PCOD Problem – 5 Women Share Their Stories pg 4-8
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By By Homegrown Staff 0

The first time I went to a (PCOD or PCOS). like a teenage version of 2
gynecologist was at the Goddess Durga juggling 0

age of 20, and I’m not the 20-year-old student Nairi- doctors’ appointments,
only one. Those of us who ka Lodhi’s ordeal started diets, and medications in

are lucky enough to have early. “I got my period her ten arms.
healthy reproductive sys- when I was 12. But I re-
tems could put off visit- alized it was coming in Nairika’s experiences

ing a gynecologist till we intervals… Sometimes aren’t isolated in the least.
were older and less embar- three months, sometimes The prevalence of PCOS

rassed of and confused by four, sometimes five,” is on the rise, especially
our bodily processes. But, she tells me while listing among women between
Head of Gynecology at the barrage of problems the ages of 15 and 30 who

Lilavati Hospital Dr. Kiran that followed: significant start their period ear-
S. Coelho tells me that 1 weight gain, excessive lier than normal, says Dr.

in 3 Indian women do not hair growth, and confi- Coelho. Citing the young-
have that luxury because dence issues. As Nairika er generations’ heightened
they suffer from Poly- describes her experience exposure to unhealthy

cystic Ovary Syndrome with PCOS, she sounds lifestyles, she says,

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