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Re: Help - I am SO frustrated
From: Kay (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 27 Apr 2000 16:51:13 -0500 (CDT)
Don't give up Margo!!! Go to doctors until someone takes you seriously
and you get heard!! You have too many symptoms to overlook them and
since you have a strong familial history....HMMM....PCP's don't always
know enough about this condition to even give a rip (my experience), but
thankfully you are getting tests run. Hang in there!!!
Blessings,
Kay
At Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Margo wrote:
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>I am feeling bummed today and am starting to wonder if maybe I don't
>have PCOS (despite the fact that both my Grandma, Mom and sister do). I
>went to see my PCP this morning armed to the teeth with all sorts of
>PCOS info and requested some tests and I got the impression that he was
>a more than a little skeptical. He is sending me for the blood workup
>(I go Tuesday May 2), but he doubts I have PCOS - I dunno maybe he is
>right and all of this is in my head. He was looking all over me for
>"hairy spots" which I really don't have all that badly, although I have
>had weird hairs pop up on my tummy (which weren't there before).He is
>blaming the menstrual problems (bleeding for almost 2 mo at a time or
>not at all)on Depo Provera which I guess is possible, but can't possibly
>be normal. I am not a person who gets lots of pimples but in the past
>year my face, hairline and chest are breaking out like crazy (I am 32).
>Also I have the skin tags and these weird dark spots on my lower lip and
>I got a dark "mustache" which isn't hair but is darker skin above my
>upper lip. I would put sunblook on it in the summer b/c being outside
>made it REALLY show up and I was teased about my "mustache". I have
>been using a fading cream which has helped a little. So what the heck
>is wrong with me???I frequently get low blood sugar (especially after
>exercising no matter how soon before exercising I ate). I feel sick
>after I eat, have extreme tiredness, mood swings, shakyness and have had
>a large weight gain all of the sudden.
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>I kept being told for the past several years to stop eating and start
>exercising and the fact that I have been exercising 4-5x a week for 2
>hrs at a time and eating healthy without any weight loss in 3 months
>means to me that SOMETHING is wrong. I just don't know what it is and I
>am SO FRUSTRATED. I don't know what to do. Any suggestions? Sorry this
>is so lengthy
>
>At Thu, 27 Apr 2000, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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>>Let me know how it goes I see this great doctor at Prince William Hospital.
>>She knows all about PCOS and is a great doctor!!!
>>
>>Kimberlee
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