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Re: Met v. BCP
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Thu, 24 Aug 2000 23:59:21 -0500 (CDT)
You may be, though, the type that needs to be on both, not just for
birth control. I went off bcps and met 3 years ago to do a Rezulin
study. The met and bcp combo worked well for me (dropped 20 lbs with no
problem). The Rez, though, didn't work for me. I was on it for a year.
As soon as I was done with the study, I went back on bcps and the Met.
BOOM! Dropped 30 lbs, no trying (and have maintained for over a year).
My doc and I believe that for me,and some women on this board who have
done the same thing, that the bcps must "knock down" the high
testosterone level before the met can kick in and be effective. Who
knows. But I look at it this way - the pill, and met too, is one of the
safest drugs out there. Decreases chances of ovarian and cervical
cancer, etc. Why NOT take it, even if it might help only a little bit?
Plus, the convenience of knowing when you're going to cycle.
|And, I take 9 weeks of bcps, then the withdrawal week. Working well,
so far! You might try that, too (saves the body 2 weeks of hormones
going out of whack).
At Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Rae wrote:
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>Thanks for replying. I did some more research last night and found some
>info on what i was looking for.
>My triglycerides are very high and my hdl is very low which i am
>learning is fairly characteristic of IR and that using the met with or
>without the bcp will help lower the insulin which in turn will help
>lower the triglycerides and which in turn will help raise the hdl and
>will also help lower the testosterone. I am going to send all the info
>i have found to my Dr tomorrow and see what he thinks.
>
>At Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Kristy wrote:
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>>Rae,
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>>I don't take Metformin but I do take the bcp in conjunction with the spironolactone (aka Aldactone) and this combination seems to have helped me a lot as far as keeping the testosterone levels down.
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>>Have you checked information in the archives of this forum as well as at the PCOS Pavilion page? The link to the Pavilion page is: http://www.obgyn.net/pcos/pcos.asp and the link to the archives of this forum is: http://forums.obgyn.net/pcos-medication.
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>>I've heard that the reason for the birth control pill while taking Metformin (I think this is right) and/or Spironolactone is b/c of the fact that these drugs can help make you very fertile and pregnancy could possibly occur. As I said the information in the archives of this forum might be able to give you what you are looking for.
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>>Also, if you want to check out the archives of the Women's Health Forum: http://forums.obgyn.net/womens-health b/c sometimes the issue of spironolactone does come up.
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>>I am sorry that I couldn't be of much more help than this. I hope that it does help you though.
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>>Take care,
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>>Kristy S :)
>>Jacksonville, FL
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