PCOS Messages for May, 2000: Re: cut them out !!!!!!!!!!!

Re: cut them out !!!!!!!!!!!

From: Belle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 27 May 2000 11:12:16 -0500 (CDT)

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Cutting the ovaries out will help with rupturing cysts but PCOS has nothing to do with the ovaries. The name was set before this information was discovered. Cysts on the ovaries is not a necessary component of having a PCOS diagnosis. There have been many women who have had total hysterectomies and yet suffer even more from PCOS. PCOS seems to have more to do with insulin than anything else. Some women do not have an insulin problem that shows up on blood tests but most seem to. Some drs who do research in the field of PCOS think that all women with PCOS have problems with insulin and that it would show up if the tests were sensitive enough. Either way, it is the *male* hormone causing the hairloss and facial hair. If you cut out your main source of female hormone, you have nothing at all to counter the male hormone.

Find out what you can about PCOS. One great source of information is the PCOSupport homepage. http://www.pcosupport.org

Read this page, there is a ton of information here. You can also do a search on any search engine and find many hits.

Ask here about a dr in your area. You can have some blood tests run even if you are nursing. There is a list of health care professionals on the page linked above.

I hope you find the information you need because your children will need your help with it later. With 4 you have an almost certain probability that at 2 of them will have problems. Boys may be short, bald, heavy around the middle, heart disease or diabetes. Girls are prone to all of the things associates with PCOS including infertility, endometrial cancer, facial hair, acne, baldness, etc. I have two children and *both* have tested insulin resistant (one girl, one boy).

Living your life can be easier when you learn to do what youcan to control the PCOS instead of allowing it to control you. If you do what you can to control this, your life may improve dramatically. :-)

At Thu, 25 May 2000, beckie wrote: >

I have only >known it was PCOS for about two years. I have been misdiagnosed with
>everthing from Pelvic inflamitory desease to climidia to herpies. None
>of which I have! The cysts grow and rupture very painfully, but I can
>hide the pain but I can not hide the obesity, baldness, mushstash, or
>the embarrasment of the above. I know my husband loves me and I love myself as a
>creation of God but that does not make the packing any easier to take. I
>am looking for anyone how has had an ovariectomy. I want the pros and
>cons. I want to cut them out my self and stomp on them. I am breast
>feeding my 11 week old baby girl and nothing can be done until she is
>stops nursing. My cysts have been seen with u\s,lap, and an MRI when my
>appendix was about to burst. No blood tests have been done sence I am
>usually pg. or nursing. I feel if my dr. removes my overies I can get
>on with the business of liveing my life.
>
>--
>beckie v.
>

-- Hope this helps,

Belle

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