PCOS Messages for July, 2001: General rave about this board and a few questions

General rave about this board and a few questions

From: Katie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 00:28:28 -0500 (CDT)

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Reading this message board has been a revelation for me. For years I've experienced so many different, seemingly unrelated symptoms and it's just amazing to see they all tie together. It's fantastic to be able to share the experiences and thoughts of other sufferers.

I've been on metformin for insulin resistance for a year now, and have really noted the difference in myself. I have more energy, don't want to sleep all the time, and have lost about 13 kilos (don't know what that is in pounds...) I'm now aged 28, but since the age of 13 I've had terrible problems with my periods, ranging from going 6 months without a period (but with constant PMT and feeling it was coming 'any day now') to incredibly heavy, long periods which left me mildly anaemic. I've suffered (and those around me have suffered!) terrible mood swings, depression and anxiety. I couldn't understand what was happening with my weight, why it ballooned for no apparent reason, and why it was so hard to lose again.

This message board and the internet in general have been brilliant in putting all the pieces together - for years I've had raised dark patches under my breasts and under my arm - I put it down to heat rash! I have patches on my neck that always look dirty, like I haven't washed. Also, I've suffered vulvadynia, painful and itchy skin around the vulva, for which I'd been prescribed cortisone cream but which the specialist couldn't explain. (This was THE vulvadynia specialist in Sydney, and yet he never mentioned any connection with insulin resistance).

I was wondering if other IR sufferers also experience general itchiness all over? I rip my skin to shreds, especially at nights. And finally, I've read with interest the connections between asthma medication and insulin resistance. I've very recently been diagnosed with asthma (very embarrassing really, am an ex-smoker and had put my persistant cough down to smoker's cough, turned out to be asthma, oops!) and have a puffer with some sort of cortisone/steroid in it. (though the packaging asserts it's a natural, non-dangerous steroid??!). Anyway, has anyone found out anything further about the impact using these asthma puffers may have on insulin levels? I'm terrified of undoing the good work the metformin's been doing, and envisage suddenly expanding another 20 kilos and not being able to stop it.....

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Katie

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