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Re: met/glucophage/insulin resistance help?From: Jennifer (anonymous@obgyn.net)Fri, 20 Apr 2001 23:07:27 -0500 (CDT)
At Tue, 10 Apr 2001, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote: > >hi, my name is tori and i just wanted to reply to your concern about not >being over weight and not necessarily having pcos. what i understand is that >even if you are not overweight, just like you may not have cysts on your >ovaries either, you are typical of too much testosterone (acne and hirsutism) >which somehow is the body's natural balancer of insulin. so you ARE insulin >resistant because of the excess testosterone. my doc didn't check my blood >work either and just sent me home with the rx for Glucophage, and thank >goodness she did because it took me four docs and two years to actually get >diagnosed. i'm sorry for sounding harsh, i didn't mean to. i just want to >make sure that you do take this seriously. my RE told me i had two options >in meds: 1-take the individual ones for hair growth and acne, which would be >like shooting a missile or 2-take the metformin and that would be like >letting a nuclear bomb off. please have faith in your treatment. you may >just not be eating badly enough to trigger anything worse. in which case, >you'll respond more quickly than someone like me. good luck and please write >back. I read these posts and am wondering about the hair growth. I am trying to understand...Are you saying that Met can help with the hair growth? I have been on Met for 3 1/2 months and have not had any change in hair growth.
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