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Need a Doctor On Long Island, NYFrom: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sat, 6 Sep 2003 10:14:55 -0500 (CDT)
Hi, I was diagnosed with PCOS about 10 weeks ago by an endocronologist. He put me on thyroid medication, and phendimetrazine in order to help me lose weight. I have been following a very strict low carb diet. When I first went to him, I weighed 135lbs. I am 5'1. Since then, I have lost 18 lbs, and now weigh 117 lbs. My first blood test showed my LH to be 12.5, and my FSH to be 5. My most recent blood test showed my LH to be 26, and my FSH to be 4, and my progesterone to be .3 He talked to me about going on Glucophage XL, but wants me to go in for another blood test during the second half of my cycle to test my progesterone again. I don't understand what is going on. He keeps telling me not to worry about this. He told me that it can be due to stress. Is this true? Should I not worry about this? I want to have children, and I am devestated! Should I be going to a specialist or a fertility clinic, or should I continue to let him treat me? Does anyone know a specialist on Long Island who is actually going to sit and talk to me, or does everyone just blow you off? I asked him if there were any natural ways (herbs or vitamins) I could be taking to help with this problem, and he said No. Is that true? The main reason I am discouraged with him is because when he last month when he realized how worried I was about this, (I told him about reading up on it on the internet), he actually told me that he should not have mentioned it to me, if he had known how upset it would make me. That freaked me out so bad, I wouldn't even let him take blood that night. I thought that maybe I was overreacting, and decided to continue to go to him anyway. I don't understand what I am doing wrong. I have lost a lot of weight, and have only cheated on the diet twice, and both times I only had popcorn at the movies. I am under a lot of stress though, I just recently got divorced, and then ended another serious relationship, and who wouldn't be stressed out when they were just told that they couldn't have children???? Sorry I am rambling, but I am at a loss....not too many people I talk to understasnd what I am going through, or just don't want to take me seriously...I keep hearing, "Don't worry about it, plenty of people have problems, and they can still have children." I want to strangle the next person who tells me how her friend had problems, and she is pregnant, etc... I am not even at a point in my life where I could start to try to get pregnant, (newly divorced, just dating, terrified to get serious with anyone, and bring thm into this hell). I am 31 years old though, and I am afraid that if I don't act now, it will soon be too late. Can anyone help me?????
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