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Re: DO I HAVE PCOS?From: Dee (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:15:31 -0500 (CDT)
At Tue, 10 Jun 2003, BRANDEE wrote: > FROM WHAT IVE READ, MENSTRAL >CYCLES AND OVULATION ARE ONE OF THE MAIN CLUES, SO COULD I STILL HAVE >IT? AND IF I GET ANOTHER BLOOD TEST DONE, WHAT SHOULD I LOOK FOR IN THE >RESULTS? WHATS THE "NORM" FOR SOMONE WITH PCOS? IS THERE A BIG SMOKING >GUN TO LET ME KNOW I DEFENTILY HAVE IT OR DONT HAVE IT? One main "smoking gun" in a blood test is that your hormone levels are out of balance. Women have two main types ie: LH and FSH levels. These two should be relatively similar levels. If there is a large amount of one over the other, it is a fairly simple indicator. The only other NO IFS ANDS OR BUTs, are the "string of pearls" or bumps on your ovaries, visible during an internal ultrasound. This is one of the later stages of the disease. The other symptoms you mentioned are all consistant with the condition. The infertility is a result of the "string of pearls" affect. Because each person is unique and different the hormonal imbalance created by the syndrome, manifests in a wide variety of ways. Treatment for the condition will relieve some symptoms, and protect against the more serious aspects such as Insulin resistant Diabetes and Uterine or Ovarion cancers. I recomend Colette Harris's "PCOS Diet Book" for help in the weight area. I am using it to loose the other 40 lbs, without the help of perscription drugs I was on for the first 40 I lost. Good luck. D.
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