Re: Question for Dr. Sam
From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi Sámuel ?= (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:26:57 +0200
Dear Tine,
Before answering your questions, I would like to remind you to a basic netiquette thing: dont send anybody your entire correspondance of the last days (44Kb) just because you are not aware to delete the 99% which does not belong to your message. First it is annoying and it costs a lot to have it transferred.
If you have found my reference to d-chiro inositol, you may have noticed that I did not (and do not) know the exact name of the company, but you can find it in the same correspondance.
If you are TTC the only drug which is to be considered is metformin, not because it is safe, but because the level of risk is known and may be weighed against the risks of gestationaldiabetes and miscarriage.
The same refers to Avandia.
I mean exactly what I write about BCPs: they are not for PCOSers. I have no experience with Yasmin.
For your info
Sam
> Dear Dr. Sam!
>
> I see in a previous digest on pcos-medication that you write about a company
> where it is possible to buy d-chiro-inositol in its pure form. Do you know
> the name of the company, and maybe also a link to it?
>
> I would like to try it very much as I am not responding entirely well to
> Metformin. I am going to try Avandia later on in this month, but as I would
> like to TTC I would like to find another alternative.
>
> I was a bit dizzy on 1500 mg of Metformin, but when I take 1000 mg a day I
> feel better than without it. Still I am suffering from fatigue, insomnia,
> muscle tensions and ocasionally headaches. I am 39 years old, I have got a
> BMI of 24 and have impaired glucose tolerance and elevated fasting insulin
> levels. I donīt look too terrible, but I am not feeling well. Are the
> symthoms I mention connected to IR, and if so, do you think that Avandia can
> help me?
>
> And what do you mean when you write about BCPs. I take Yasmin as an
> antiandrogen as it is supposed to reduce my symthoms. However, it seems that
> they can increase IR?
>
> Hope that you can find the time to answer my questions as I live in Europe
> and as qualified information is not too available.
>
> Yours sincerely
> Tine
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