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Re: Is there any point in getting diagnosed?
From: Suzanne (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:04:05 -0800
My doctor told me that if I lost weight, it would be easier to get pregnant, but
did not mention anything about IR. I lost quite a bit of weight before becoming
pregnant with each of my two children (with great effort), but immediately gained
it back with each pregnancy. Six months ago, I began a low carb diet
(Carbohydrate Addicts Diet), I've lost 32 pounds and I feel great. I wish I
would've known about this diet years ago... it is so much easier for me than any
low fat diet I've tried before.
>From what I have read, exercise and lowering of insulin levels through dieting
will help regulate your cycles and in turn allow you to ovulate and become
pregnant. It worked for me!
Melodee wrote:
> I am pretty certain that I have PCOS--I even mentioned it to my nurse
> practitioner in September during a routine pap smear and she said,
> "Well, I'd just put you on birth control pills. . . you don't want
> that, do you?" (I have adopted 7 year old twins, a "miracle" 2 year old
> and would like to be pregnant again). Anyway, I dropped it then. Now I
> have found all this info on-line and all the symptoms--except for male
> pattern balding--sound just like me! Interestingly enough, I started a
> daily exercise regime, kept it up for over 12 months and got pregnant
> quite unexpectedly after 8 years of infertility. I wonder if the
> exercise suppressed the PCOS and allowed pregnancy?
>
> Anyway, so if the general "treatment" is exercise and diet, is there any
> point in getting diagnosed? I have no idea how to find a doctor who
> knows about PCOS--I'm in Western Washington which is not listed on that
> handy physicians directory. Incidentally, about 5 years ago I went to a
> different nurse practitioner with PCOS-type symptoms and she tested me
> for early menopause and when everything turned out "normal"--normal
> thyroid function, no pre-menopause--she sent me to a dietician, saying I
> just needed to lose weight. (As if it were that easy!) I did manage to
> lose about 20 pounds in conjunction with my daily exercise--that was
> when I got pregnant. . .
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Melodee
>
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