Re: PCO Diagnosis
From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi Sámuel ?= (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 03:54:03 +0200
Hi,
BCPs do not do any good for PCOSers. You are the lucky type (no weight problems), but the only thing BCPs do: they regulate your cycle. The problem of PCOS remains (as evivdenced by the sonogram.) Even if your homrones seem to do fine (which hormones, what values?) you should have a glucose/insulin test and start an insulin sensitizer.
For your info
Sam Ob/Gyn,RE
> Hi,
> When I was in my teens, I had a very bad case of hirsutism, and before I
> could have a period of my own, I was put on bcp. I have been on bcp for
> about 8 years now, and it has helped my hirsutism a bit but not
> terribly. I was told two years ago that I have PCOs, but no one really
> explained it very well to me. I have been trying to read about it, and
> am finding out that it usually means that I can't conceive since I do
> not ovulate. When asking my doctors about it (I've been to ob/gyns and
> reproductive endocrinologists) they always said that it will be very
> easy to become pregnant through hormone therapy. As an experiment to
> myself, I stopped taking the pill for 8 months now, and have had two
> periods. That have hurt a lot, specially the time before it, I would
> have about a month of very painful intercourse. When I went to my
> doctor recently, he told me that my hormone levels look fine, but showed
> me my ovaries on a sonogram, and they look like crochet work, which
> indicates that I do have PCO's right? I am very confused about this, but
to go back on the pill because my hair situation is getting
> worse and they seemed to help. I am glad to know that there probably is
> a reason for my moodiness and other symptoms(weight wise, I am doing
> fine),but I am going bald, and my body hair is getting worse, and I
> would love to know if the PCO diagnosis is as hard to understand for
> other people as well? And what makes one decide to take glucophage (I
> just heard of it). And how difficult is it to become pregnant?
> Thanks
>
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