PCOS Messages for July, 2001: Re: Thanks everyone

Re: Thanks everyone

From: ALW (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:31:09 -0500 (CDT)

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Hi Emma:

The thing that worked with my current doctor was going to the PubMed site (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed) and searching for +metformin +PCOS. I would estimate that over 80% of the articles -- from peer-reviewed journals, not some possibly biased Web site -- that came up recommended the use of metformin to treat PCOS. I printed a sample of the abstracts and faxed them to my doctor. If you have a fax number, I can even fax you the same sheets I sent her. She said that she had read some of them but not all of them, and then she agreed that I could have a prescription for bloodwork and an ultrasound -- both of which eventually proved that I have PCOS. I am now being treated after almost three years of dithering about trying to prove to several doctors in succession that I'm not fat (etc.) because I eat too much and don't exercise. If there's anything else with which I can help you, let me know!

At Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Emma wrote: >
>Thanks everyone for the posts. I've decided to force myself to go to a
>gyno, whom I have never seen and never been reffered to. I would also
>mention, after reading one of theposts that the endo did prescribe me
>with a triphasic birth control pill for about six months about a year
>ago. The pill did nothing, it did not even bring on one period!! I had
>in fact about 8 months ago take in some printed material from the
>internet which mentioned IR an Meformin etc, but he just dismissed it
>saying that there is all kinds of stuff on the internet and that he was
>not convinced that IR had anything to do with PCOS. Thats why he hasn't
>tested my IR and refuses to try Metformin. It also mentioned not to
>take a triphasic bc pill. He didn't really even read the information I
>had. Its been four years now and I am very obese, getting hairier and
>hairier and am so scared that I will never have children. Last night
>reading all the posts about women who had good doctors and the tests
>they ran and mends they described made me want to cry because I hadn't
>goten anywhere with mine. Thanks again, and I hope to hear from anyone
>esp anyone in Australia.

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