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Re: Is this from the PCOS??
From: A (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 17 Apr 2000 20:41:08 -0400
Pam-
Sounds like you may want to have your thyroid tested also....good luck!
Alexis
Pam wrote:
> Here's my problem. I was diagnosed with PCO a year ago at the age of 19
> by the ob-gyn at my college student health. The doctor did a bunch of
> blood tests on me and started me on birth control and spironolactone.
> The only other thing he told me was that I needed to lose weight. He
> referred me to the college's dietican who basically handed me a copy of
> the food pyramid and said follow this.
>
> Well, now it's a year later and I'm heavier than I was. But I hardly
> eat. I am constantly busy either with school or work. And I when I'm
> not busy with them I have no energy at all to even try to exercise. I
> also have gone from having periods that were 5 days long on the pill to
> periods that just look like one day of light spotting. I also am cold
> all the time. I sleep in sweats year round and currently have 5
> blankets on my bed. Occasionally I will feel hot but only on my face
> and even then those moments are few and far between.
>
> I guess what I'm afraid of is that my body is breaking down or my PCOS
> is getting worse (if that's even possible). I really want to get
> married and have kids someday. Does anyone have any advice?? Is this
> normal with PCOS? What can I do? My mother and her side of the family
> have high rates of Diabetes and I know that effects weight loss. I'm
> also afraid to go back to the same doctor and get racked over the coals
> about my weight in two months when my birth control prescription runs
> out.
>
> --
> Pam (age 20)
>
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