PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for December, 2000: Re: Ultrasounds

Re: Ultrasounds

From: Cyrilla (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 19 Dec 2000 23:20:30 -0800

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Kerry, I'm not really sure how the doctor can check for cysts on your ovaries from a pelvic. Other than pressing to check for tenderness or swelling, there is no direct access to your ovaries from "down there", unless my knowledge of anatomy fails me. If you have cysts, I've been told that they are only visible by ultrasound, unless they become a large mass, and even then, I would think a doctor would have to do an ultra sound to determine where the mass is located, as we have so many "parts" in our lower abdomens. That is not to say that a pelvic is a bad idea, as much as we all hate them, they are an important part of our preventative health.

As far as your fasting glucose, as other gals have shared, you can have normal glucose levels and still be IR. Your doctor needs to check your insulin blood levels in response to ingesting glucose, and your fasting insulin blood levels. Some doctors have you ingest elevated levels of insulin for a few days prior to having the test. I think you can find more info about this in the archives. When I first started looking into this, in addtion to reading these posts, I did searches on PCO on all the medical archives I could find, as well as the PCO organization web site (which the name escapes me just now). There is a lot of info available, and I also find reading the posts here so helpful.

Good luck with your doctors and tests, and with the met!!

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Cyrilla
> Hi Cyrilla,
>
> Thanks for your great input.  I always start to feel angry and
> frustrated when I let my doctor bully me out of tests, an ultrasound
> being one of them.  I have scheduled my first pelvic exam this week and
> am quite anxieous.  If you could elaborate for me, do you know what the
> ultrasound can see that a pelvic exam won't show? Doesn't the doctor
> look at your ovaries during a pelvic exam? My doctor told me that even
> if I have cysts, they won't hurt me??? hum...skeptical.
> I was diagnosed with PCO because of my hormone abnormality and irregular
> period for most of my young adult life.  Not only that, the elevated
> cholestrol and androgen.  I am trying to figure out the kind of tests
> that can help me understand my body better since my fasting glucose was
> normal...but the Glucophage helps a lot.  Weird.
>
> --
> Kerry
>

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