Re: PCOS swollen feet and ankles
From: Amy (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 08 Jun 2001 16:22:17 -0400
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Mine were doing this too until I started taking a B-100 vitamin .. 100
mg of all the vitamins ... B is supposed to be good for water retention
.. :) I also had started getting popping feelings under the skin on my
lower legs like vericose (sp) veins .. I am also taking Venistat to
promote healthy leg circulation ...
:) Amy
anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
> My feet and ankles swell a great deal, too, especially during the week
>
> leading up to my period. No one seems to have an answer to this, but
> luckily
> this is what led my gyn. to refer me to an endocrinologist. Other docs
>
> thought the weight gain was my own fault. I stopped getting my period
> in
> early 1997; the former gyn. simply put me on BCP to manage it and
> didn't even
> do any further testing. Needless to say I changed docs!! My current
> gyn. (the
> one who made the referral) felt really bad for me -- saw the ankles,
> listened
> to my anguish -- and although I still don't know how to treat this
> mess, at
> least it got me on the road to diagnosis!
>
> I'm about to buy some soy lecithin granules based on the success
> stories of
> some people on one of these lists. I've been taking myo-inositol from
> GNC for
> about a month, but no results. At first I started losing weight --
> lost about
> 8 pounds in one week. But then when it stopped, I realized that the
> weight
> loss coincided with my trip to the Japanese market, where I purchased
> many
> soy products. I then came down with a cold, and to treat it I made
> miso soup
> every day for about three days in row. And lost 8 pounds. Think
> there's
> anything to that??? Miso is a soy bean paste, for those who don't
> know.
>
> I'm ANXIOUSLY awaiting the d-chiro-inositol pill. I have been invited
> to join
> a clinical study, but they don't want you getting pregnant for at
> least a
> year, and I really want to get pregnant soon. I will be 30 in July,
> but my
> husband will be 51 in October. We've been together for eight years.
> It's
> time. But I need to lose weight and get my hormones under control
> first. --
> we haven't had any luck the "natural" way, although I haven't worked
> with a
> BBT thermometer yet. I can't really tell if I'm ovulating or not --
> how do
> you tell other than temperature? My doctor says that just because I'm
> having
> regular periods (on my own, without BCP) doesn't mean I'm ovulating.
> Depressing as all get out.
>
> Laura, age 29, diagnosed with PCOS in Jan. 1998
> no meds at this time (allergic to glucophage; Rezulin worked great but
> they
> took it off the market; Avandia made me gain weight); and I'm about
> 120
> pounds overweight.
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