Re: BCP Question for Dr. Sam
From: Pamela (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:22:37 -0700 (PDT)
YOU GO GIRL!
THANK YOU FOR THIS POST. I AGREE WITH YOU- EVERYONE
DISAGREES. I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO CONFUSED IN MY LIFE!
--- Melinda Hautala <anonymous@obgyn.net> wrote:
>
> I would be willing to bet that every one of you is
> as frustrated as I
> am from trying to live with PCOS. Not only is it
> just an incredibly
> frustrating condition, one that affects nearly all
> aspects of our
> health, but it's also a condition that has only
> recently had anyone do
> any research on. There is no definitive answer.
> Everyone disagrees.
> And because we're all so desperate for any kind of
> help, we'll grab at
> anything.
>
> I don't mean to discredit Dr. Sam or anyone else
> with info on this
> list, but it just about drives me insane to see how
> many conflicting
> opinions I get about PCOS. How can I know which
> ones are valid and
> which aren't?
>
> People here cultishly insist that if you're not
> seeing a Reproductive
> Endocrinologist, then you're not getting correct
> info. Well, I was on
> another PCOS board the other day, and they were
> having a live chat with
> their "official doctor-type person". This doctor
> was an RE and the
> chat was about infertility. Since Dr. Sam never
> answered my long
> explanation about my problems with Metformin, I
> asked this RE. He
> didn't understand why I'd take Metformin if the BCPs
> and Spiro weren't
> bothering me, and said that BCPs were fine. He also
> agreed that if I
> had the kind of reaction to Metformin that I had, I
> shouldn't take any
> more of it.
>
> Now, I've read the studies about Metformin, so I
> know it does work for
> most people. But the point I'm trying to make is
> that everyone seems
> to be certain that *their* info is the *correct*
> info. If I were a
> regular reader of that other PCOS board, maybe I'd
> side with that
> doctor, and maybe if I came over here, I'd think
> everyone here was
> crazy. I'm not saying I do think that, I'm pointing
> out that there is
> great controversy over this issue and "home loyalty"
> seems to only
> confuse it even more.
>
> My frustration reached a breaking point, so I made
> an appointment to
> talk to my own doctor about the whole thing. My doc
> is familiar with
> Metformin therapy for PCOS, as she is the one who
> suggested I try it
> over a year ago. I asked her if she thought BCPs
> were going to make my
> IR worse and if I should go off them. She told me
> that since I
> couldn't take Metformin, and since my glucose and
> insulin readings
> always come up okay, she didn't think it should be a
> problem for me.
> She went and phoned an OB/GYN she knows, to make
> sure she was on-track,
> and the OB/GYN said the same thing.
>
> So, maybe someday we'll all be proved wrong, and my
> pancreas will shut
> down. But it seems to me like my only option is to
> wait until the next
> miracle breakthrough treatment comes down the pike
> (will it be D-chiro
> inositol? Who knows?), because I cannot take
> Metformin. In the
> meantime the BCP/Spiro combination allows me to feel
> like a normal
> person, and I try to control my insulin as best I
> can by how I eat and
> exercise.
>
> --Mel
>
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