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Re: met/glucophage/insulin resistance help?
From: Dona (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:08:35 -0500 (CDT)
It depends on how much excess androgens your body has..Sometimes Met can
lower them enough to were you will see less hair growth. But everyone
is differant
Dona
>At Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jennifer wrote:
>At Tue, 10 Apr 2001, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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>>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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