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Dear PatFrom: Amelie (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:54:41 -0500 (CDT)
Dear Pat, Can you give me some advice? I was diagnosed due to overwhelmingly heavy, painful, prolonged, spotty, weird periods and cycles and unmovable belly fat, and only after I was "tentatively" diagnosed, did my doc ask about thinning hair and/or facial hair (I have both in luckily small amounts so far). I also have a mom with diabetes II, and grandma who died of diabetes complications (a double amputee, no less!) and a maternal family history of either many children early on with none during the 20-30s (and a few pregnancies that happened in their 40s). My mom's sister died (double mastectomy, diabetes and hep c, but had one child after 26 years of marriage, at age 42. Another auntie (also recently dead of diabetes and hep c) had 3 healthy pregnancies and one where the fetus died at 9 months gestation (GD). My mom had GD with my brother, and had a full hysterectomy after he was born at age 33. I had two great maiden aunts (grandma's half sisters) who apparently had lots of sex, but never conceived (Catholics. Would have carried babies). All the men in that family die of heart disease. They all had whiskers, diabetes, short, muscled apple round peasant bodies, thin-bald hair, and big bellies and arm fat. they said it's because we are hungarian. I am taller (1/2 swede), blond (so my facial hair is very pale and even though it's longish and fuzzy, no one thought twice about it), and my symptoms are mainly weird periods, fat, and alarmingly high cholesterol/triglycerides, even with Zocor. On my dad's side, they get early hypertension and have strokes and/or heart attacks. I am screwed, aren't I? So. I finally got diagnosed. After complaining for easily 15 years and having previous BCPs make me miserable. I have never had a child, am not married, not sure if the person I am with I would want to coparent with or marry, too soon to tell. But I do want babies. I've wanted them since I was 18 and made myself choose school. When do I need to start taking my fertility seriously? I am 31, started yasmin today for relief (after the provera kicked in a period earlier than expected), and am worried about not starting soon enough but not knowing when.
-- Amelie who would hit a sperm bank if there were no volunteers and the time was nigh...
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