Re: met/glucophage/insulin resistance help?
From: John (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 21 Apr 2001 09:16:32 -0700
I am overweight. I feel like I need to lose at least 40 pounds. I have
been overweight since my teens (probaly when I got PCOS). Where did you see
that I was not?
I wish i had a better doctor. Mine doesn't seem to know a lot about it, or
at least not enough to really help. She never mentioned glucophage. The
first I heard of it was with this site. She prescribed water pills and
birth control pills. She also said that she did not have any info, and that
there wasn't any info out there on it. Some help! She also didn't tell me
about any of my blood levels, so I don't know. All she said was to look up
insulin resistance. My liver enzyme levels are high.
Jennifer
>----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer" <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list PCOS-DIET"
<pcos-diet@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: met/glucophage/insulin resistance help?
> 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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