PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for August, 2000: Re: Have PCOS But Doc Won't Prescribe Metformin

Re: Have PCOS But Doc Won't Prescribe Metformin

From: Alison (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:02:40 -0500 (CDT)

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Dear Samantha, I live in Edinburgh and have been aware of my PCOS for ten years. I amanged to control it for a few years until three years ago I got pregnant by some miracle but after giving birth I gained 10 stone in a matter of months. I managed to get an appointment with a specialist who told me they would not treat me unless I lost weight and that I should stop eating cream cakes with my cups of tea! When I saw a dietician I was told that I was not eating enough as I never even used to eat breakfast. Now I understand my body better I eat three meals a day. But I am sick of people saying to me that I eat really healthily and looking suprised. As you can imagine I was devestated and ended up on antidepressents because of it. But I went back to my G.P and asked to see another specialist. Now I have an appointment next month with the only consultant in Edinburgh that deals with women with PCOS and obesity. You have to keep hammering at the door until the right person lets you in. PCOS is a serios condition with long term effects and you need treatment.

At Thu, 25 May 2000, Samantha wrote: >
>I am so upset I have been crying for days. I was diagnosed with PCOS 2
>yrs ago and was put on The Pill to "control it". After reading
>countless magazine articles and web sites, I learned that birth control
>was just treating the effect and not the cause so I decided to see a
>Reproductive Endocrinologist to talk to about getting put on Metformin.
>Armed with all of the information that I could find about PCOS (all of
>which sounded like it was written about me), I had my appointment and
>the doc scheduled an ultrasound and blood tests including thyroid,
>insulin, glucose, hormone and others. A week later I went in for my
>results and her "advice" was to lose weight. I burst out in tears in
>her office and said that that was the reason I came to see her. I have
>tried EVERY diet known to man. I exercise regularly, but the weight
>doesn't come off. When I told her that I wanted to try Metformin she
>said I didn't need it because, although I DO have pcos, my insulin and
>glucose levels were normal. She wants to put my on birth control pills
>again........exact what I DIDN'T want to do. I am going to get a second
>opinion. I am even thinking of buying Metformin over the internet. I
>am desperate. If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it.
>
>--
>Thank you,
>Samantha
>

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