PCOS Messages for December, 2000: Re: Yay, i have cysts! :P and questions...

Re: Yay, i have cysts! :P and questions...

From: annie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 23 Dec 2000 13:26:48 -0600 (CST)

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At Thu, 21 Dec 2000, brdmadgrrl wrote: >
>got an ultrasound yesterday. the techincian was very nice and actually
>let me look at the screen and told me everything that she was seeing. i
>had one done when i was 17, but they wouldn't let me see the screen, i
>don't know why. i guess they figure if you're not having it done cuz
>you're preg, there's no need/desire for you to watch? i've always been
>something of a nebshit though, so that annoyed me.
>
>anyway, it was only an abdnominal ultrasound the first time, so of
>course they didn't find anything. yesterday was a transvaginal... and
>yippee, cysts galore!! the weirdest feeling is, i can't even really be
>that upset about not having this caught all those years ago (ok, so it
>was only 6 years ago...) because even had they known, treatment then was
>still pretty limited to aldactone and birth control pills. i was on
>bcps for 5 years, off and on at times...
>
>of course none of this means anything because my follow up doc
>appointment is scheduled such a long time away... i hate this. you
>wait so long for a consult, then you have to wait so long for a follow
>up. i wish since they knew what you're coming in for, the docs would
>just tell you what tests to have as soon as you schedule your consult.
>then you could come in with ever so much more info and get treated 3
>mmonths sooner.
>
>but anyway. does anyone know if the cysts go away with treatment? i'm
>just curious. it really seems their presence or absence doesn't mean a
>whole lot - it's just one more symptom to have or not have - though i
>guess it is the one that means the mst as that's where those hormones
>are coming from - but it would be nice if treatment made them go away...
>it would be nice to feel a little more normal inside. it kind of gives
>me the creeps to think my oavaries are crawling with little undeveloped
>follicles.
>
>on a related 'my body just doesn't work right' note, i got my last blood
>results back recently, and my testosterone is higher than EVER. it was
>80 in august, 81 in november, and now it's 93. which is pretty funny in
>light of the fact that my hair seems to be diminishing (not on any
>treatments yet) and my sex drive is pretty much non-existant these
>days... i thought for sure it'd be lower. there's just no explaining
>the weird ways our bodies [don't] work. :P
>
>i'm wondering if it was high cuz i spent the week before having it done
>eating like food was going out of fashion... it would be good evidence
>to the insulin thing, i think!!!! the only thing is i don't want to
>bring THAT up to the doc cuz maybe it's make her throw the whole results
>out (though i don't now my insulin levels yet so who knows if it even
>matters?). but at least it's a little more evidence in my own head as
>to what all is going on here. now that the test is over, i'm eating
>more like myself again so my levels are, i'd bet ten dollars, back down
>again, where down is still high, but at least it's only in the 80's.
>
>only!!

I guess I am a little confused, you had a lap done which showed that your cysts dimished. But someone else wrote in saying that they are also on met and they had a lap done and the dr said he saw no cysts. Aren't these two things pretty much the same?

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