PCOS-MEDICATION Messages for September, 2003: Re: Feel Insulin Resistance but not

Re: Feel Insulin Resistance but not

From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 19 Sep 2003 18:28:35 -0500 (CDT)

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Everyone feel free to correct me if I am wrong, I am still pretty new to all this (the IR part), but your doctor should give you an Insulin Glucose Tolerance Test (IGTT). Your body produces insulin to do what it needs to with the glucose that you intake. When you're insulin resistant your body has to produce more insulin that it should to do what it needs to with the glucose. So your glucose can still be fine and you can be insulin resistant.

Hopefully you'll be able to convince your doctor to give you the test. In my personal experience it might be best to try to stay with a doctor that diagnosed you. This is because I was diagnosed 5 years ago (but was just put on BCP) but my doctor moved and I moved and now I've been through 2 doctors trying to convince them that I have PCOS again...and going to a third on the 30th. They keep testing my hormone levels while I am on BCPs and that shouldn't affect it and then call and tell me that nothing is wrong.... At Fri, 19 Sep 2003, ann wrote: >
>I was diagnoased with PCOS just recently- I have a 5:1 LSH/FH (I'm not
>sure in which order) level. and this past year have really felt the
>symptoms of insulin resistance. I feel tired , shaky, etc. However I
>just did the fasting glucose test and it came back negative. So the
>doctor is not going to give me metaformin instead only BCPs. I have
>been to about five doctors over the past year only because my job has me
>move every two months. So needless to say it is difficult to get a
>straight answer. And with the different answers I've been getting from
>every doctor I feel like I can't trust anything doctors say anymore. I
>initially only started going in because of abnormal pap smears. The
>first three doctors never even thought of PCOS even though I told them I
>never have my period. But they also said that i don't have to be on BCP
>only need withdraw bleeding a few timss a year. So now instead of
>taking metaformin a medicine that could make me feel better all the time
>I get to take BCPs that will make me feel worse (i get really irratable
>when I do have my period) for a week every month. Does anyone now if
>BCP makes you feel any better? Or if there is any medical reason to take
>BCPS? Any suggestions?

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