Re: PCOS
From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Zalányi Sámuel ?= (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 20 May 2003 05:35:28 +0200
Hi Paula,
Have a hemoglobin/hematocrit test. If they are abnormally low, you should have a curettage to stop the bleeding. If it is normal, you should have a hormonal treatment called "building up the endometrium" as it is called here in Europe.
For your info
Sam
> I STARTE BLEEDING ABOUT 3 MONTHS AGO AND IN THAT TIME I HAVE BEEN ON
> OVRAL AND MEDROXY. NEITHER DRUG HAS HELPED ME THE BLEEDING HAS
> INCREASED AND THE ABDOMINAL PAIN IS INTENSE, FOR THAT MY DOCTOR GAVE ME
> TYLENOL 3 WITH CODEIN THIS DOESNT EVEN TAKE THE PAIN AWAY. THE DOCTORS
> HAVEN'T DONE ANY TESTS THEY JUST THINK I HAVE PCOS, I DO HAVE ALL THE
> SIGNS FOR IT BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN LOOKING UP INFO FOR MYSELF. BUT I AM
> SO TIRED OF THE CONSTANT BLEEDING, I HAVE TO CHANGE PROBABLY EVERY HOUR
> AND A HALF TO AN HOUR BUT MY DOCTORS DONT SEEM TO DO ANYTHING, I ALSO
> THINK THAT THEY REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO. CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME TIPS
> TO GIVE BACK TO MY DOCTORS. I DO HAVE A HISTORY OF BLEEDING FOR LONG
> PERIODS OF TIME BASICALLY SINCE THE AGE OF 12, BUT AS I GET OLDER (29)
> THE PAIN AND THE BLEEDING HAS INCREASED. PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME.
>
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