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Please, can anyone help me?From: Kate (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sun, 11 Feb 2001 13:38:46 -0600 (CST)
I have all the symptoms of PCOS - hirsutism, horrific weight gain, all my weight on my abdomen (I look 8 months pregnant), insulin resistance (we know because I was a gestational diabetic), lipid problems (I had gallstones), acne, depression, irregular, heavy and painful periods and general, constant abdominal discomfort. But, I have had three children without difficulty (and realise how lucky I am) and no cysts were detected on my ovaries last time I had a scan (2 years ago). Nine months ago, when my gynaecologists checked my hormone levels they were normal but he says I am verys ensitive and that 'normal' for me might be very low. All my adult life I have suffered from problem periods and erratic weight gain. Although I weigh 230 lbs at 5'6" I go jogging, cycling and walking and I am generally active and a busy mum of three. The latest bout of problems started after no 3 was born and has been truly horrific. the doctors who have been treating me have witnessed the terrible speed at which I put on weight and have also seen me suddenly drop 30lbs (only to have it return and then some). They all agree that there is something wrong with me but they don't seem to know what. If I don't have cysts I don't have PCOS even though I am a textbook case in every other way. If I can't get a diagnosis, what do I do? I don't want to live the rest of my life like this; I feel so ashamed, and so ugly, and so desperate. Does anyone know of a similar case? My gynae says he will put me on Metformin but I don't know if he means only if the tests this time show PCOS. My life is in tatters - I feel terrible, have lost my job and just want to be 'me' again. If anyone has any useful advice I would be so, so grateful. I still exercise but have stopped dieting as it was hopeless and made me so unhappy. Have not really decided what to do about my eating as I don't know what is wrong with me and it amkes no difference what I eat, anyway. Or don't eat! I am posting here from the UK. I have waited two and a half years to get anywhere near a diagnosis and now I am really scared I won't get one. The endocrinologists I saw here humiliated me, then had to admit that they had made mistake - I was hypothyroid. But they didn't look for anything else and so it has been such a slow process. i take Thyroxine now so that problem is coped with. What should I do? Please help.
-- Katie
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