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Re: insulin
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 3 May 2002 15:37:39 -0500 (CDT)
I've read that the standard for insulin resistance is either a "Glucose
Tolerance Test" (takes about three hours.) My doctor has ordered a a
"fasting serum insulin level" (really had to insist upon it to get it)
which I haven't yet taken. From what I've read, if serum insulin is
high (L>20 uU/mL), or c-peptide is high (>4.6 ng/mL), insulin resistance
may be present.
I am very new to this whole PCOS thing and really know very little. This
is just what my own web research has led me to believe.
At Fri, 3 May 2002, lollo wrote:
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>At Thu, 2 May 2002, Erin wrote:
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>>At Fri, 26 Apr 2002, lollo wrote:
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>>>How should I be tested for insulinrestistance or other blood sugar
>>>problems? I have done some kind of fasting test, but they only messaured
>>>the blood sugar and not the insulin. So they told me itīs no risk that
>>>I develope diabetes. But I still think there is something wrong since
>>>my blood sugar often drops suddenly and I tremble, get dissy, very
>>>hungry and feel lika Iīm close to fainting. So itīs more the opposite
>>>to diabetes I seem to have. Iīm very dependent on eating often and I
>>>differ from normal people with this. Itīs always a problem when I have
>>>to adjust the eating to others, at a job or something like that. My
>>>brother has the same kind of problem and they checked everything on him
>>>but couldnīt find anything. It makes me eat a lot of sweets just
>>>because I often need to get the blood sugar up very quickly.
>>
>>Lollo:
>>Have you had your thyroid tested? it sounds to me like hypothyroidism.
>>My mom has this and she has all the symptoms you have described. It's
>>worth checking out. I think that your thyroid can be affected by PCOS,
>>although I am not 100% sure of that.
>
>Yes, I have had my thyriod tested twice and it was normal both times (on
>bcp and without, I donīt know if that would do a difference). Is this
>not the way you feel when you have problems with the blood sugar?? Iīve
>only met one person in my life who has pco, and she says she has the
>same problem and that it was because of the pco.
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