Re: Doctors! Ugh!
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:03:50 -0600 (CST)
At Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Char wrote:
>
HI Char,
I don't know, but I have had very similar stuff going on for me as
well....years of water retention and constipation, and actually muscle
and joint aches but also always exercised quite a bit and figured it was
all from that. If you don't mind me asking, what treatment did you
start that you began to see those symptoms disappear?
>What do you all think of this?
>
>Besides all the usual PCOS symptoms, I have had muscle and joint
>problems, water retention, and constipation problems for YEARS (and I
>eat this amazing healthy diet and exercise like a madwoman). Anyways,
>when I began some hormone treatment one month ago after I finally found
>out I had PCOS, all those ailments above began to disappear within days.
>Well well well. I even asked my insurance company if they would approve
>payment on a few massages to help the healing of my muscles along, and
>they said yes, as long as I had a prescription.
>
>So I called my doctor to tell her this good news. Only her nurse would
>call me back and talk to me. She said that those symptoms are not PCOS
>related, and the doctor refused to give me the prescription. Not PCOS
>related? Well, maybe not in the medical journals. But explain why after
>years and years of suffering, they all begin to disappear or heal in a
>matter of days.
>
>Is my doctor nuts? Isn't the writing on the wall here? Or am I missing
>something?
>
>Comments please.
>
>--
>Char
>
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