Re: INFO ON MEDS PLEASE?
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Sun, 20 May 2001 22:52:28 -0500 (CDT)
I totally agree with you Dr. Sam... thank you,
I have never been able to take BCP sucessfully and since I discovered I
have PCOS last year I now understand why my body basically rejected
anything I would try...I only feel good when taking insulin sensitizers.
Dona
At Sun, 20 May 2001, =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi wrote:
>Hi Dona and Susan C,
>
>The question of BCP's and PCOS keeps resurfacing like the lochness monster again and again.
>Please try to understand, all combined BCP's (mono- bi- or triphasic) contain estrogens which tend to aggravate the glucose metabolic disturbance we think to be the core problem with PCOS. The same thing happens during pregnancy (high estrogen levels) turning PCOSers into gestational diabetes and with time passing many of you get type2 diabetes mellitus. From this point on there is very little room for further discussion about BCPS and PCOS. The progestagen only types probably are less dangerous...
>To regulate your period, which is also an important point, you may need progestins or natural progesterone only for 10 days every month or longer.
>
>Sam
>
> Dona.... gotta give my 2 cents on this one :-)) I think it's true that many
>>
>> of the ladies here have had trouble with BC pills, I don't know if it's
>> necessarily true to make a blanket statment that they will make you have
>> mood
>> swings no matter what though. I agree that they may mask the problem
>> instead of treating it when used by themselves but I was put on Ortho
>> tricyclen a few months after I started glucophage and never had any kind of
>> problems with them during the year I used them. The gluc didn't make me
>> have periods regularly so my doc prescribed the BC pills just to make sure I
>>
>> did- instead of having one horrific period every 6 to 8 months. I know
>> there
>> seems to be a BC controversy lately and I don't want to get into that
>> because
>> I fully believe some women have had negative results while on them, I just
>> know what my personal experience with them was. (I'm also pretty tolerant of
>>
>> medications too, so that could have something to do with it, but I think we
>> have to try things out before we can say they're are a bad idea).
>> Susan C. :-)
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