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my first postFrom: Neve (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:49:45 -0500 (CDT)
Hi, This is the first time I post. Actually it's the first time I visit this site, but I have a hunch I will visit it very often from now on. I haven't been diagnosed with PCOS yet, "yet" being the key word here, because I'm 100% sure that it's the problem I have. I've been reading some of the literature on the site and I have all the symptons or have had them at some stage of my life. Until now I had always thought I was just a freak, I didn't know that this is a medical condition affecting many women. Probably the freak feeling is a result of having spent my early teenage years being the ugly fat and hairy girl at school. I've never been able to talk to anybody about this. When I was 20 (now I'm 24) I was fed up with my endless heavy periods and I told my mum I wanted to visit a gynecologist, and she was very cold and distant. we never discuss this kind of things (periods etc at home). I decided to go alone and he put me on the pill (he didn't say anything about PCOS, although I now see that many symptons were present --excess hair, high blood pressure, crazy periods etc. The pill (Diane) worked wonders with me, I had my first regular periods in six years, I got rid of a lot of excess hair and my skin condition improved a lot. The bad news is that I put on a lot of weight. At least I thought it was pill-related, now I wonder if it would have happened anyway. I tried to stop the pill several times but every time I would have to start again because I would start bleeding days without end. The facial hair problem was also a nightmare. Some months ago, however, I forced myself to stop because I started having excruciating migraines and very high blood pressure. I was very scared because I know that blood pleasure is dangerous and because I had read on the patient information leaflet that use must be discontinued at the first signs of hypertension-related problems. It's several months now since I stopped the pill and all the symptons have come back with a vengeance. I can take the hair thinning, the body hairiness, the lousy complexion, being overweight etc but facial hair is driving me crazy. I am what they call the Celtic type, I have reddish brown hair but extremely fair skin and the hair is so obvious on my face. I try not to remove it because the small areas I have been waxing for years now look permanently red and puffy. I bleach it instead, but it's still obvious, I don't know what is worse, the purplish patches or the blonde beard with black roots. I'm sorry if I'm boring you with my story, probably you think I'm petty complaining about this when some of you are having so many problems to have babies etc, but for me this is such a terrible thing. And I can't tell anybody. Next weekend I'm going home for the Easter break and I am definitely visiting another gynecologist and explaining all this to him/her. I don't think they will like hearing a patient diagnose herself, but I've decided I have to do something about it. I'm so glad I found this site. Thank you for putting up with me and please excuse my English, I'm not a native speaker. All the best Neve
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