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Need advice re acquaintanceFrom: Alta (anonymous@obgyn.net)Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:56:44 -0500 (CDT)
Hi. As you might remember, I was only dx in May, and my symptoms are mild compared with some that I read here. (I'm 35, taking Met, TTC, and weigh 140 or so.) I'm still in the mode of "sudden awareness." I say this as background to my question. Today I started volunteering with a youth theatre program. There are about 25 great teens in the program. One girl, S., from a neighboring town stood out to me as a classic PCOS woman. She's probably about 16, is overweight, relatively small chested, has hair so thin you can see her scalp, and is shaped much like a man with her weight at the beltline. Nobody was mean to her or anything, but I could hear whispers such as "She looks like a guy." (She also has a "guy" haircut--short and spikey.) She just contrasted so much with the shapely girls. For what it is worth, she's also a good reader and has a great voice. She made friends with another girl who was new. OK, here's my question: Knowing that PCOS is so hard to figure out and not all the doctors know what to do with it, should I befriend S. and tell her about PCOS? Should I ask her if she is getting treatment for PCOS? It would be quite presumptuous of me, but on the other hand, it could save her health. Of course, she might very well be getting treatment AND/OR I could be very wrong--I am no doctor. I don't even know what doctor I'd recommend to her since my RE seems to deal mostly with infertility, but I could be wrong about that. What would you do? I'll see her almost every day for the next few weeks. ~Alta
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