PCOS Messages for January, 2001: Re: Having doubts

Re: Having doubts - can someone help?

From: Jennifer (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:48:17 -0600 (CST)

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Hi Katie, No, glucose and insulin levels are not the same. Insulin is what keeps your glucose levels within a certain range. However when you have pcos, your cells are not as sensitive to insulin. Your body has to make more insulin to have an equal effect on blood sugar (glucose). This excessive insulin is what causes pcos symptoms: cysts on ovaries obesity hirsuitism

What you need is for your doctor to do an IGTT - they measure your insulin fasting, then you drink the glucose drink, and they take another sample after an hour and another hour to see where your INSULIN levels are. It is vital that they check the insulin levels and not the glucose. They could also check both.

If your insulin levels are high, you could start taking glucophage to bring them down, and that should improve your symptoms. Most people start with 500mg/day and slowly work up to 2000 mg/day.

A low carbohydrate diet should also help you.

Good luck.

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jennifer

At Tue, 30 Jan 2001, katie wrote:
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>If you read my last post, I just found out that I was diagnosed 7 years
>ago with PCOS but was never told.
>
>Well, now I remember the doctor saying that all the blood tests had been
>done before and I had been told they were normal.
>
>My LH was high back in 1994, but when I tried to xplain about the
>insulin resistance thing, she said my Glucose was fine.
>
>Is Glucose the same as Insulin? and if it is, is there any point in
>going on a low-carb diet???
>
>Thanks in advance
>katie

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