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Re: IR an skin problems.. would love some advice if you get a chance :-)
From: Teri (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 26 Jul 2003 06:34:37 -0500 (CDT)
Caroline,
I wish I could help more, but this is what I do know. The dark spots, I
have been told, are from having too much estrogen in your system. The
pill could have ballanced you. If you take a pill with only
progesterone, I would think that this would, not reduce the estrogen,
but ballance it. Also, I do not want to soudnlike an advertisement
here, but I am using Proactive Solution and have foudn it to be helpful.
there is a cheeper version now Ihave seen advertised on TV. You can
even get it at Wallmart or some place like that. Maybe give it a try.
At Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Caroline wrote:
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>Im 19 an diagnosed as IR... on glucophage an spiro.. i was on ortho
>tri cyclen for about a year a few years back.. i had no problems on the
>pill.. but it didnt help the acne to my liking.. so i went off it.. as
>soon as i went off it i got melasma... (dark spots) all over my face..
>a problem that i NEVER had the whole time i was on the pill.. this is
>very bothersome to me.. as i never go in the sun an it continues to
>worsen.. i talked it over with my RE an he thinks the BCP protected me
>from it.. an wants me to go back on the pill.. (a progesterone only
>version) to correct this problem...
>have any of you tried a progest only bcp? did it worsen acne? do yall
>have any experience with melasma NOT from being on the pill.. but from
>coming off it? also i have some weird swellings on my face.. they look
>like swollen cords.. they are skin color.. an are not veins or
>arteries... my derm says he thinks they are tunneled infection from
>cysts and acne.. have any of you had the same problem? or know what i
>can do for it?
>thanks so much!
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