Re: Diane 35 -- part 2
From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi Sámuel?= (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 1 May 2001 16:03:48 +0100 (MET DST)
jodi <brdmadgrrl@aol.com> 2001.05.01. 02:02:51 -5h-kor írta:
> At Sat, 28 Apr 2001, =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi wrote:
>
> >
> >This is true every BCP. I am glad that you have finally realised this,
> although I have posted many times that BCPs are not for PCOSers. Diane is a
> partial exception, because of its antiandrogen effects, but this doesn't
> help with IR. Porgestogen only pills may be somewhat better, but still...
> they are only halting (in best case) the progress of the disease.
> >
> >Sam
>
> are you saying that there are NO BCPs that will not worsen insulin
> resistance?
Exactly. I have been praying this for months... Besides, being diabetic IS A CONTRAINDICATION to combined BCPs. Now if you are " only" IR, which is the stage before being diabetic, is it wise to take BCPs?
S.
i absolutely loathe being on the BCP because i don't like
> feeling like i have no idea what is going on with my body. however, i
> want to start taking aldactone again, and i can't be on that without
> being on BCP because i have really crazy bleeding on aldactone. i will
> hate being on the pill even more if i know that no matter what i pick it
> will worsen my IR. (After a week on the pill, i already am having
> ridiculous food cravings and feeling fatter... the pill doesn't seem to
> cause by-the-scale weight gain in me but it makes me FEEL fatter. i
> don't know how else to explain it... )
>
> as for finestride (or however it's spelled...) i forget why it's less
> prescribed here. i think it costs more and has more risks assosciated
> with it... but i can't recall. i just know aldactone is the
> antiandrogen of choice here... and it works very well, except for the
> bleeding part...
I would not praise aldactone, it is not an antiandrogen of choice but one of ignorance. It is a diuretic with antiandrogen side-effects.
Sam
>
> - jodi
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