PCOS Messages for June, 2001: Re: A bcp that improves IR ??!!!!!

Re: A bcp that improves IR ??!!!!!

From: lesley (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:06:49 -0500 (CDT)

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I was on Marvalon for years, I stopped it about 4 years ago. Thinking on my symptoms at the time, I don't think that they ever helped my acne. I think that the only reason my weight stayed under partial control whilst on the pill was because I was at the gym and in aerobics classes so often (around 10 to 12 hours a week in the gym, plus around 3 or 4 classes a week).

But then again, when I stopped the pill, it quickly became harder and harder to keep my weight under control, and my zits got worse. Then I ended up cutting right back on my excercise - a change of job, followed 6 months later by moving to the usa from the uk and a almost complete absence of excercise.

Now I am on the met and sugarbusters diet, my acne is 99% under control, I only get the occasional zit, and my weight is slowly going down - 38lb in about 18 months...

One more thing, is that whilst I was on marvalon, my sex drive went almost down to zero :-) Not that it is that much better now, but at least I occasionally have one now.

--
Lesley

At Tue, 26 Jun 2001, cat wrote:
>
>I have been wondering about going on the pill to treat my pcos (because
>I'm in the UK and there is no chance of getting on met :o( ) but I'd
>heard a lot about bcp's making IR worse.
>
>Well, I did a search on medline and found a study that showed that one
>type of bcp improved insulin sensitivity and improved lipids.  The pill
>in the study contained 30 mcg ethinylestradiol and 150 mcgs desogestrel.
>This is the same as desogen or ortho-cept in the US or marvelon in the
>UK.
>
>Has anyone been on one of these pills and seen an improvement in their
>IR or lipids or other symptoms? Or had bad results with them? I'd be
>really interested to know!
>
>The link for the study is:
>
>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11020530&dopt=Abstract
>
>--
>Cat
>

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