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Stomach Stapling? and other rambling....From: Mary (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sat, 28 Dec 2002 08:12:22 -0600 (CST)
I went to see "the" fertility doctor in my city, and while I do feel that he was more sympathetic than the nightmare doc in one of the posts below, I did get many of the same words: there's nothing you can do, your genes are defective, it's only going to get much worse, diabetes, arthritis, etc. He doubled my meds and then suggested that I see a surgeon to have my stomach stapled. (The only reason I actually went to a fertility doc is that I suspected that he would know more about the syndrome than the average OBGYN) I was painted a very grim picture of my future unless I do so, and it frightens me all the more because he is one of the few doctors that I have managed to find that seems to know anything at all about PCOS. I went to physicians for TEN YEARS with the same complaints to be told everything from "You can't possibly feel your ovaries" to "I would like for you to try Prozac for your, um, issues..." It wasn't until two years ago that finally a doc tested me for hirsuitism and then ordered a full blood workup. (That goofball actually told me that, "Well, yes, there IS a syndrome that causes the complaints that you describe, but those women are MUCH heavier than you are." I was already 5'5 and 265 pounds. "So Doc, they just wake up that way one morning?" Anyway, my OBGYN that is very nice but still sadly under-informed wants to do a laroscopy on the 23rd of Jan and the fertility doc wants me to have my stomach stapled. I am afraid of too much cure here, but I do know that metformin and spirinolactone just haven't done much more than hold me where I was.
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