PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for February, 2002: Re: Is Metformin the new common PCO treatment?

Re: Is Metformin the new common PCO treatment?

From: Fergus (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 14:20:23 -0800

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From: "Cay" <anonymous@obgyn.net> To: "Multiple recipients of list PCOS-MEDICATION" <pcos-medication@mail.medispecialty.com> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 12:42 PM Subject: Is Metformin the new common PCO treatment?

> I am going to see my old endo. doc. next week, I want to get on
> Metformin for my PCO, will I have a struggle or is it commonplace to ask
> for this. In the past the only drug I've been told I can take is BCP. I
> would like to try to get off those. Please advise.

It's not commonplace enough that you can assume all doctors are aware of it. As I mentioned in another post, my girlfriend's original doctor understood she had PCOS but insisted there weren't any treatments of any kind. Her new doctor doesn't seem to be enormously knowledgeable about PCOS but seems to have at least heard of metformin being used to treat PCOS. She has been very open in giving my girlfriend input on her treatment, so that makes up for her not being an expert.

Things change in medicine all the time, of course, so it's possible that your endocrinologist is aware of this treatment now. It's also possible the endo. is not. You can attempt to convince the endo., but you may as a last resort need to go somewhere else.

I'm not a doctor, but Doctor Sam seems to be certain that PCOS should be treated with metformin. Not only that, but everything I've looked at seems to me to agree entirely with his position. PCOS is a disease of insulin resistance, so it has to be treated with an insulin sensitizer, like metformin.

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