Re: met/glucophage/insulin resistance help?
From: Dona (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:14:18 -0500 (CDT)
There are several good websites about PCOS and insulin resistance that
you should print out and take to your MD. the best one being Dr Gleuck
at the Jewish hosptial of Cincinnati Ohio. He is a leading expert on
the subject.
http://blues.fd1.uc.edu/~gartsips/polycyst.htm
this would be an excellant site to print for your Doctor.
Hope I helped.
Dona
>At Sat, 21 Apr 2001, John wrote:
>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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