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Re: Pelvic Ultrasound this Friday
From: Kristina (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 10 Jul 2000 13:25:34 -0500 (CDT)
Thank you to all of you who replied! Belle, I talked to my mom about
what you said and we are going to cancel my Friday appt. [which I'm
actually quite happy about:)] and I'm going to look on this website and
the others that you gave me in hopes to find a doctor who specializes in
this and can help me. I really do appreciate your help and your
concern! This site and you women are a huge blessing!!! I'll keep you
all posted and let you know how everything goes:)
Many blessings,
Kristina
At Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Belle wrote:
>
>Dear, thia is going to sound harsh but I have a young teen with this
>affliction and I am *very* close to this situation.
>
>You should ask your mom to take you to a dr who is familiar with PCOS.
>There is a list of drs on the PCOSupport web site at
>http://www.pcosupport.org. If you can not find one there who is in your
>area or on your insurance, ask here for good drs in your area. Please,
>*please* have your mom (or guardian) read the above website!
>
>The ultrasound will not be of *any* benefit. You do not have to have
>cysts in order to have PCOS. Not only that but you can have over a 100
>cysts on each ovary and it not show up on an abdominal ultrasound (this
>is the voice of experience about this). If your dr wants to do a
>vaginal ultrasound on you (17 years old) knowing that a large portion of
>women with PCOS do not have cysts, then s/he is not very good at their
>job.
>
>High testosterone levels, missing periods and other symptoms of PCOS
>should be enough to diagnose this problem. This is according to the New
>England Journal of Medicine.
>
>The pill can make things worse for you. I cannot tell you how many
>women have told me that things became worse after they went off of the
>pill. I can not tell you how many women with PCOS became pregnant while
>on the pill and you should just be happy that endocrinologists that do
>research in PCOS cannot hear you say that your dr will "treat" the PCOS
>will the birth control pill. I have gotten lectures about that even
>though I will never take the pill again. If you go on the pill (which
>is designed for birth control - nothing else) make sure that you do not
>get a tri-phasic pill. This is one where the hormone levels vary from
>week to week, you have one level of hormone for the first 8 days then
>one level for the next 8 days and then the first level for then next 5
>days. These have allowed women to continue to have cysts develop on
>their ovaries and allowed them to continue to have irregular periods. On
>the site that I linked above you will see that it states (under medical
>treatments) that the BCP is for the symptom of irregular periods. You
>will find the same information at this web site from the University of
>Chicago: http://centerforPCOS.bsd.uchicago.edu/
>
>A dr who is familiar with the research on PCOS that goes back to 1982
>will order an IGTT (Glucose tolerance test with insulin levels) to
>determine if you have an insulin problem. With an insulin problem, you
>are at risk for diabetes and heart disease. These are bad problems that
>may seem far away right now but now is the time you can do something
>about it.
>
>Even if you are not diagnosed with insulin problems the metformin
>(Glucophage) may still be of help to you. On this website from a well
>respected dr who is highly involved in the research into treatment for
>PCOS, you will find some additional information:
>http://blues.fd1.uc.edu/~gartsips/polycyst.htm
>
>There are lots of sites about PCOS so if you do a search you may want to
>stay with the sites from drs and universities in order to gain the most
>accurate information. The PCOSupport web sites does a great job of
>assimilating the bulk of this information in one concise spot but I
>still would not rely on that only.
>
>If you need other sites, just let me know. I hope that you are able to
>receive the best care possible. So many of us have been diagnosed with
>PCOS and then treated with BCPs only to find that things did not improve
>or that things became worse. I do not want that to happen to another
>young life. Feel free to search the archives to find additional
>information about these drs or about my background. If your mom would
>like to ask questions, she is more than welcome to come here.
>
>Good luck,
>
>At Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Kristina wrote:
>>
>but when I told
>>her that my testosterone levels were too high she started asking me
>>about other symptoms related to PCOS...a lot of which I have. So, the
>>end result is that I am going in this Friday to get a pelvic ultrasound
>>to see if my ovaries are polycystic. I am not at all looking forward to
>>this, but I know it's something I have to do. Also...she talked a lot
>>about birth control. She told me that if it isn't PCOS she can still
>>regulate the periods with the birth control, but she also said that even
>>it was PCOS she would most likely treat it with birth control. I have
>>heard some of you saying that birth control is a bad way to treat PCOS.
>>If it turns out I do have polycystic ovaries, should I ask for
>>Metformin? Any help would be great!!! Thanks:)
>>
>>Many blessings,
>>Kristina
>
>--
>Hope this helps,
>
>Belle
>
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