PCOS-DIET Messages for January, 2002: Barbara- diabetes insipidus

Barbara- diabetes insipidus

From: Lisa (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:44:22 -0600 (CST)

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>If you can give me any advice on Diabetes Insipidus-I would greatly appreciate it.Apparantly,I had it and it simply cleared on it's own.>

I'm not aware that DI has any connection with PCOS, it may do, I've just never heard of it. DI is exceptionally rare. It can be caused by a low production of Anti Diuretic Hormone by the pituitary or an inability for the kidneys to concentrate the urine.

Diabetes just means "water" Mellitus which is the diabetes most people know means "sugar". Insipid just means no taste (that is how doctors used to diagnose diabetes before dipsticks, tasting the patients pee!).

There are many causes for either type, and certain medications certainly can trigger it. Sometimes cessation of the drug will solve the problem, sometimes not.

Diabetes insipidus can be fatal if not treated, as basically what happens is the person drinks water not stop to quench an unquenchable thirst which can overdilute the blood, mess up the electrolytes and trigger a heart attack. The usual treatment is a nasal spray called Minirin which is synthetic Anti Diuretic Hormone.

The weight loss you experienced was unlikely to be muscle, but more likely due to lack of appetite due to the vast quantities of water you would have needed to consume, exhaustion at peeing non stop and vast quantities of fluid fluctuations.

>Insipidus was a rare form of diabetes that was caused from
>medications.Once taken off the meds for a while,it cleared up on it's own.>

I'm not an endocrinologist, but I have a reasonable grasp of the endocrine system and I tend to agree with your doctor. New research down the track may provide answers as to just WHAT does trigger PCOS, but at this stage, it does *appear* to be strongly familial and related to overproduction of insulin by the pancreas. But, perhaps you are right, perhaps those of us with PCOS do have a dud gene in the endocrine system, either a new mutation, or inherited, that predisposes us to a variety of endocrine disorders.

>Most of my cousins are all in the medical profession,but one thing I can tell you-they don't know a darned thing about PCOS.>

Makes you wonder why doesn't it? I mean the problem is HUGE ('xcuse the pun) effecting between 1-5% of all women, contributing significantly to health costs not to mention the emotional impact of infertility and obesity. The research is all there, why isn't the message filtering through to the general medical community?

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Lisa

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