PCOS Messages for November, 2000: Re: Let's Start a Personal History File for Others to use in getting Diagnosed..

Re: Let's Start a Personal History File for Others to use in getting Diagnosed..

From: Barbara (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:57:56 -0600 (CST)

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Jo-Nita, I think you are definately on the right track here, There was a time over the summer when I was emailing out something like that to a few different women. Something else that I think is a GREAT tool, is the 3 part 'booklet' series that you can print from the PCOS Support website, it is something along the lines of 1. Do you have PCOS? - a questionaire & summary of PCOS with a scoring guide for various symptoms, 2. Diagnosing PCOS and 3. What to bring to a Doctor's appt. about PCOS. I know treatment is discussed as well. I might have this slightly different than it actually reads but you get the idea. The scoring and the guide for what tests to be run I think are particularly good, I think if a woman were to combine this with a good article on PCOS and Insulin Resistance, and the latest treatment protocols she would be in a very good starting place to get help. If we could keep the materials as "objective" as possible I think that more doctors would be open to reading them. Maybe we could post to this forum something like: "Seeing your Doctor about PCOS diagnosis" Include a link to a few articles, and the PCOS booklets and a list of questions to ask the doctor under that subject, then we could always refer 'newbies' there. What do you think? At Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Jo-Nita wrote: >
>There have been so many posts lately about women trying to gather
>information to take to their doctors in an effort to get diagnosed. Do
>you think it would be helpful for those of us that have a confirmend
>diagnosis to keep a draft of our personal history, symptoms, tests used
>to diagnose us, medications and treatments we are on, what works for us
>and what doesn't and our Physician's names & recommendations ( if they
>are PCOS friendly) so that we could print them off and send them to
>anyone who needs more ammo to take to their physician's office. I know
>doctors won't take much stock in our "laymans'" messages, but it may
>help the women feel more confident & in control as they face these
>"Doubting Thomases". I just thought it might be helpful to have a
>concise, orderly version of our stories at hand to send to those in
>need. Let me know what you think. I know that when I first went in to
>suggest that my problem was PCOS, I would've felt a lot better having
>reliable information from other PCOSers around the country & world!
>Please feel free to e-mail about this.
>
>--
>Take Care, Jo-Nita (Illinois)
>

--
Barbara

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