Re: Asthma and PCOS
From: ALicia (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:06:24 -0500 (CDT)
Oh please please be careful of those steroids. I was on them during my
350lb weight gain and I have always reacted badly to prednisone for
asthma. I know refuse it unless I am on deaths door. I gained 70lbs
once in one documented month off a prednisone packs. Try Singulair its
nonsteroidal. The steroid inhaler Flovent can cause pseudo Cushings and
the weight gain combined with untreated endocrine problems can GET VERY
SERIOUS!
I actually carry a paper on me refusing all steroids in my purse in case
I end up in the hospital and they want to give me a steroid shot. That
can mean 50lbs and on my 450lbs regaining that weight could kill me
quicker then the asthma.
t Sun, 29 Jul 2001, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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>At Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Stacy wrote:
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>>Anyone else out there have both Asthma and PCOS?? I've just learned that
>>the cortisone I'm inhaling for asthma causes insulin resistance, and
>>that just doesn't correspond well with the PCOS. I'm not quite sure
>>what to do. I'm showing some symptoms of insulin wierdness, and I have
>>an appt with an endo. in Oct. Couldn't get in till then. It seems
>>like I've got to keep breathing though, so I can't go off the steroids.
>>AAAAaaGHHH!!!
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>Hello Stacy
>Just thought I would let you know that I also suffer from both PCOS and
>Asthma. I never thought of the relationship between the two but after
>reading your posting I got to thinking and I have had PCOS since about
>age 15 though just recently diagnosed but I had all the symptoms and was
>diagnosed with asthma around age 15 too. I take an inhalers, one being
>Advair. As the years have gone by my asthma has become increasingly
>worse just like the PCOS symptoms have. I plan on looking into it to
>see if there is a connection and will let you know. Best of luck!
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>I wonder how many more of us out there are dealing with alergy / asthma? I have been reading the posts over the past few days and sarted thinking about my own problems reguarding this... I am on Allegra for alergies and an inhaler for when I excercise or get exerted (I usually end up with an asthma attack... Dr. calls it excercise / sport induced asthma)and it has been getting worse over the past year or so. I never thought there was a problem with inhalers and sugar levels (even my Dr. perscribes an extra inhaler for me instead of steroids when I get bronchitis(sp?)in the winter time because he said that steriods will make my sugar go up but the inhailers won't). Go figgure! I guess he has a lot to learn!
>-Christine
>U2Rox@aol.com
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