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Re: question about diabetes and pcosFrom: Christine Gray De Zarn (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 14 May 2000 11:17:30 -0500
Absolutely!!!! The risk of developing diabetes is about 5 times as likely for women with PCOS, than for a woman who does not have PCOS. The reason that women with PCOS (who have not yet developed diabetes) have high insulin levels is because the insulin that they do produce doesn't work very well. So the pancreas kicks out more and more of it to overcompensate for the lack of quality. Eventually the pancreas "gives up" (for lack of a better description) and the mechanism that produces the insulin starts to fail and then you don't produce enough insulin from that point on. The two conditions are very closely related. Christine D. -----Original Message----- From: anonymous@obgyn.net [mailto:anonymous@obgyn.net Behalf Of anonymous Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 1:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS-MEDICATION Subject: question about diabetes and pcos Okay, so how can someone have pcos and diabetes? In my understanding, pcos causes too much insulin production and diabetics do not have enough insulin???? Can someone help me understand this? The reason I ask is my RE says I have pcos and diabetes, and I just don't see how this can be. How can you make too much insulin and not enough insulin? Help me understand if you can, thank you very much for any responses.
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