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Re: Newbie with Lots of questions!!!From: suzanne (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:46:49 -0500 (CDT)
At Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Angie wrote: > >Hi, I'm new the this board and to the diagnosis of PCOS. Never knew >what was wrong with me all of these years. Just enough problems to make >me think I'm crazy, but thought it wasn't worth mentioning to a doctor. >I have been losing my hair for the past 4 years (since my husband joined >the Army---thought that was the problem). Just recently my hair and >face started getting extremely oily. Thought the oil was the same, but >thinning hair maybe made it more oily since there was less hair to soak >up. I went to a doc---just happened to me an endocrinologist that >understands this stuff. (army doc too!!!) I asked him to test my >hormones, thyroid, and whatever else may be causing the hairloss. He >said that my testosterone was 110? I assume that is pretty high. I >haven't had any strange hair growth, but have had infertility problems a >few years back. I do have 2 children of now. I have a regular period >all except a little heavy, little painful, little long...but it comes >every month. My chest/neck have been breaking out for months and I >never knew why. My doc put me on met 500mg twice a day. > >Questions: > >Is the dosage of Met I'm taking sufficient? I think I'm tolerating it >fairly well. > >When will the Met help clear up my neck/chest from acne. It has gotten >worse since I've started the MET. > >What about my crankyness. It was SO bad the other day. Again worse >than usual after taking met. > >With Low Carb diets is it best to just cut them out as much as possible >or just decrease them. > >Thanks, Angie Hey Angie I am new at this board too! Anyways about your dosage, it should be enough because if it weren't it would show up in your test results. For example, when I first went on Met. I was on 500mg 3x a day. My tests showed that the Metformin in my body was not enough so now, I am on Met. 2x/day but 1000mg. It's been working for me. I have lost some weight so thats good! I never had bad acne but I have notice that since I been on Met. I have notice alittle acne, but it has been clearing up the longer I take it. I haven't notice any crankyness though. And about the low carb. I tried cutting them out totally, and I thought I was going to die! lol anyways (I think) the best way to go about it is, decreasing your carbs. (atleast until your body gets use to cutting down on them) I don't know if any of this helps but I hope so!
-- suzanne
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