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Re: Can gloucophage increase fertility? (long story...sorry)From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 27 Feb 2001 00:10:09 -0600 (CST)
At Sat, 13 May 2000, anonymous wrote: > >I am 23 have been diagnosed with PCOS for just over a year and have not >had a period in just about a year. Meds to make me bleed have not >worked and my doc believes that I have always been polycyctic since I >first started having periods. I didn't even start my periods until I >was 15 and even then I was VERY irregular...3 months here, 6 months >there, a whole year...then I went on bcp for 2 years. BOOM! Periods >like clockwork. My husband and I decided to start a family when I was >19, just before we got married knowing that since I was not regular, it >would take some time. I went 2 and a half years before I was diagnosed. >The doc I had at the time couldn't tell me why I had gained so much >weight in such a short time(65 lbs. in one year). She blamed all of my >symptoms of PCOS on the weight gain. I had a lot of them...I had facial >hair, no periods, increasing weight, and high bp. I finally went to an >OB/GYN and he diagnosed me on the first visit (finally a doc who knows >something!) He sent me to an endocrinologyst after failing to get me to >ovulate with Clomid. She was able to confirm that my insulin levels are >too high..."my pancreas is on overdrive" is how she put it. She told me >that glocophage will lower my insulin levels, but didn't say if it would >increase my fertility. Has anyone out there gotten pregnant using >gloucophage to lower insulin levels? If so, how long until you got >pregnant? Do I have a chance to have kids of my own?
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