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Re: PCO Diagnosis
From: stocklin (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:19:52 -0500 (CDT)
At Mon, 22 Apr 2002, suzy wrote:
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>Could we please get a professional opinion on this because this poor
girl's email makes me so uncomfortable that no one can answer her
questions and concerns. I have been on bcp for years and they have
seemed to help but I still worry that its not enough and when I try to
conceive I will be out of luck. Can someone please give suzy and I an
answer so that we know that we are okay? She seems to be doing her part
by seeing doctors but they just don't seem to know enough. Any advice on
specialists that will really understand us and our condition?
At Mon, 18 Jun 2001, =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>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
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>>Sam Ob/Gyn,RE
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>>> 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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>hey how are you i read what you wrote and i have the same problems but i wanted to ask you because i hav'nt been on anything or even seen my doctor in about a year if you know that it affects my health if i dont treat my pcos
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