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more hairy issuesFrom: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:53:29 -0600 (CST)
i seem to be having increased hair problems as of late... i always seem to notice this before a period. some women break out... i get hairier. i actually seem to develop new terminal hairs at this time!!! i understand that progesterone can act as an andorgen in the body... which means that break outs and hairiness both make sense from that aspect. since progesterone is high after ovulation... well, this all makes sense. making sense, however, does not make it any more comforting. my doctor prescribed for me 1500mg og glucophage a day as of january 19th. so far, well... i think i'm gonna have a period soon. i'm hoping. it feels like it... so hopefully, something good is going on. i have an appointment for april 20th, and at that point she said i can try "triple therapy"... the pill, aldactone, plus the glucophage. she will not give me the aldactone without the pill because of the risk of birth defects. (i have also had extended bleeding episodes from aldactone, making me relauctant to take it without the pill from that standpoint... at the same time, i am dead set against the birth control because i want my body to work, not be turned off. i can accept that there is a risk of birth defects with aldactone... but i think a women's means of birth control should be left up to her. does anyone know if docs get scripts back, like cancelled checks, so they can check up on if you've actually filled them?? i could always take both scripts but only get the one filled...) my hope was for the glucophage to reduce the PCOS symptoms on its own, so that i would not want or need to take the aldactone and birth control. but i'm getting hairier here... and it's annoying me. i feel like, even if i get the testosterone levels and insulin levels down, and have periods, i'm gonna get hairier every month because of progesterone!!! anyone know if this is a possibility??? or could it be that my testosterone is still really high and the progesterone on top of that is causing this? i have actually been considering asking for the aldactone after all... this hair is too much to deal with. but i don't want to be on it indefinitely... so i don't know if i should bother. does anyone know, if you take aldactone, and get the hair growth to go away or slow down, if you stop taking it does the hair grow back EVEN IF YOU HAVE ADDRESSED THE UNDERLAYING HORMONAL IMBALANCE? it seems like it SHOULDN'T... but i bet it does. blah. but i can't afford the laser treatments... or at least, i don't think i can... at my last blood draw, my 17-hydroxyprogesterone was really, really high. if it's still high, i'm gonna get tested for adrenal components of this, but my doc doesn't think i have those since my DHEAS was normal. can THAT cause hairiness as much as the testosterone? ugh! help! any imput on progesterone and hairiness would be appreciated... as would anyone knowing if docs get prescriptions back like cancelled checks... as would anyone knowing if hair slowed down by aldactone comes back even if you adress the underlaying cause... but for that matter, does aldactone make you appear to have a normal level of testosterone in your blood during tests, meaning you'd never know if your levels were normal while on it? or does it merely block the action, not the production? i thought it only blocked action, but who knows. i loved what it did for hairiness while i was on it, but i didn't like the bleeding... or the fact that it made me numb from the waist down, if you catch my meaning...) - jodi
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