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Hobs et al., NOT ALL WITH PCOS ARE IR
From: Joan (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 4 Oct 2000 14:50:04 -0500 (CDT)
There is alot of conflicting info out there ,but as I understand it does
seem that many most overwieght ones are-but lots of them aren't. The
good news is that even some people without IR seem to get help from
insulin sensitisers. Figure that one out!
Check out these sites for more info.
http://blues.fd1.uc.edu/~gartsips/polycyst.htm
http://www.inciid.org/faq/pcos4.html
At Wed, 4 Oct 2000, hobs wrote:
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>Go and look online or somewhere at some of the research out there on
>PCOS. If you have PCOS, then you must have IR. Insulin resistance (or
>sensitivity) is what is the base cause for PCOS. If you really don't
>have insulin problems, then you don't have PCOS, your symptoms are
>caused by something else. A fasting insulin and GTT don't always show
>IR. look back in the archives about IGTTs and the difference!
>
>At Tue, 3 Oct 2000, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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>>At Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Sonnet wrote:
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>>>I have heard women on here say they have PCOS and are not IR, but from
>>>verything I have read, this is not possible. I also have heard that
>>>often physicians who don't know enough about PCOS will not test it the
>>>right way (ie with an IGTT or something?) and so much of the IR goes
>>>undiagnosed because the glucose levels and/or non-fasting insulin are
>>>okay. It is my suspicion (suspicion! not saying it's unequivocally
>>>true!) that anyone who says they are PCOS but not IR has been told so by
>>>a doctor who didn't know how to test for it!
>>>
>>So what test should the doctor perform to diagnose IR? I did fasting
>>levels and GTT and was still normal. And I have no direct symptoms of
>>IR. Just those of elevated androgens.
>>
>>--
>>Neen
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