Dealing with PCOS and Fainting: Seeking Advice

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Hello. I'm new here, I just saw this post. I have PCOS and insulin resistance. When my blood sugar is not right, I experience all kinds of symptoms, including dizziness, and I have fainted. My endocrinologist gave me a glucose monitor to test when I am having difficulty. It helped me notice what makes things go awry. If it's high, walking and water help. Mine is often low, I eat something and drink water. My endocrinologist explained IR to me in a very simple way, but it gave me a good start. The pancreas does it's job, it makes the insulin. The rest of the body ignores the pancreas, and the pancreas thinks it needs to make more insulin. That causes fluctuations and symptoms. That is one big difference between IR and diabetes. It can progress to diabetes, but with diabetes, the pancreas has trouble making insulin. That's a very basic starting point that helped me learn more.