PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for May, 2002: Re: BCP and severe PCOS symptoms

Re: BCP and severe PCOS symptoms

From: Victoria (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:56 -0400

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Hi,

Depends on who you want to believe. There's not been any study on PCO'ers that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt BCP has long term effects. We've had people who say they have had things happen to them on the net. So you get different stories. I've seen ladies who lost weight on BCP alone, and those who said they've gained weight. Some people end up taking several medications to help them. All that matters is the medication helps you and your symptoms and problems. If you want a BCP, Yasmin might be an option. Your doc shouldn't care which one you are on.

You might want to find out if you can figure out which of the medications is making you sick though. Depends on what you want to try first: going to a new BCP or dropping it or the Metformin or the Spironolactone to see which is the culprit. Did you inch up to the 1500 mg of Glucophage or start it all at once?

As for the medications, you never know for sure if you have to take them the rest of your life. Some say yes, some say no. I just saw http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/433390 (Medline is a free signup) and there is no studies on long term effects of taking drugs before being diagnosed. There was also comment about nothing on the cardiovascular effects. So go figure.

As for a hysterectomy, how does your doctor think that is supposed to help? He gives you Glucophage, so he should recognize a glucose/insulin component. What part of the IR concept would a uterus removal do?

-- Victoria

From: anonymous@obgyn.net (Rebecca)

I was recently (about a week ago) diagnosed with PCOS (at 25) after having been told for years by my doctor that my symptoms were "normal" I read an article and took it in to ask and he said that was probably what I had. My GYN put me on 1500mg of Glucophage and 200mg of Spironolactone with Orthocyclene for my BCP. I have lost all the hair I want and gaining it all the places I don't want. I am also severly overweight. Despite excercising about an hour a day for 5-6 days a week and low-carb dieting, which I have been doing for a solid year. My question is, for the hirsitism I am reading that I should be on Yasmine BCP, but the side effect is pretty severe weight gain. For weight gain I am not sure, but I am at a kind of critical level now and can't afford to gain anymore I am pretty severly nauseous all day with the medication (never been on any type of long term medication before), but I am willing to put up with it if I'm taking the right things and if this is going to work. What does the BCP do, other than force periods and clear up acne? Is it going to have long term good or bad side effects for this condition? Can anyone help or at least wade through a little of the information? Will I be on all of this medication for the rest of my life???? My doctor also listed a hysterectomy as an alternative. Can this be right????

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