Re: Agent orange and sick of pcos
From: Renee (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 07 Aug 2001 16:02:59 -0700
There might be a connection. That was a pretty nasty chemical.
However, remember that there are 6-10% of women with PCOS. There were a lot
of girls born in those years (I don't have the numbers handy). Therefore,
there are a lot of women born in those years who will go on to develop PCOS no
matter what the cause is. And, because only women with PCOS are on this list,
there will be a certain number of women born during those years whose fathers
happened to be there and gotten exposed. This is NOT proof of a connection.
Again, we need to see if there is a higher percentage of women with PCOS with
a history of paternal exposure than those who don't have that history.
If anyone out there is working on a degree in epidemiology or biostatistics,
there is a dissertation waiting to be written here...
Renee
(yes, I've taken epidemiology and biostats classes as part of my public health degree)
anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
>
> This is what I wrote to Michelle the 8th person who has e-mailed me about
> orange and pcos.
> Some may be affected by the orange syndrom and some are from other gene
> mis-haps.
> Chemicals are related one way or the other.
> Something went very wrong to have sooooo many women affected and soooo many
> different but same problems we all commonly share. Why so many problems with
> one God aweful disease?????? There's absolutely nothing to do about this
> disease but mask it with all the drugs available out there. will there
> never be a cure ??????
> Will we ever be noticed or will we constantly be shrugged off-written off.
>
> Michelle,
>
> You know how they are--Last minute to do anything. They pushed our poor
> soldiers away until 1978 when they finally conducted research. I can't
> believe that there are so many women that have this problem that do have
> family that were in the gulf and vietnam war. There's still so many women
> that don't even know what's wrong with them wether it's agent orange link or
> not. But this still needs to be opened up and much more attention given to
> pcos. What can we do but wait for cancer or a hysterectomy. Take birth
> control or what ever drug they give you that just masks the problems or even
> makes them worse. I don't know what to even say about plain old pcos. There's
> so many problems relating to it-it's not just missed periods or hair loss and
> growth, hormone changes and zits or diabetes and irritated bowl syndrom and
> God knows what else. How can one thing lead to your hole body falling apart.
> I don't know but I don't what to really know what the future holds for me now.
> Tara God bless and take care
>
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Renee Cordrey, MSPT, MPH, CWS
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