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Re: PCOS - Things to do before you see your DR
From: Belle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:58:00 -0600 (CST)

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It is extremely important for you to have you insulin levels checked when you have your glucose drawn if you dr is not prepared to prescribe metformin on the basis of PCOS alone. You do not need a fasting level only but insulin levels which are drawn at the same times as each glucose level. You should see two tubes, one with a grey top and one red top.
At Sun, 26 Mar 2000, DAR wrote: >
>FYI - A friend of mine found out the hard way that after her 1st meeting
>with her endo she would have to wait 3 months before he would put her on
>metformin. She had to be off of all spirolactanane? and bcp for 3
>months before he could do accurate blood tests for her pcos prognosis.
>The good news was that I heard about this and had 4 months to go before
>my 1st appt so I was able to contact the NP find out what I needed to do
>and then set up GTT and bloodwork for 2 weeks before the first appt. It
>made life much easier for that first appt. I make sure I find out what
>tests need to be done beforehand and get those done. It saves a lot of
>frustration on the patient's part.
>Hope this helps out someone.
>DAR

-- Hope this helps,
Belle

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