PCOS Messages for September, 2001: Re: CAN ANYONE HELP

Re: CAN ANYONE HELP

From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:22:54 -0500 (CDT)

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Hi Angie and welcome to the forum!

The first thing to find out is whether or not you've been diagnosed as having Polycystic Ovaries, or PCOS. They sound exactly the same but they're different! PCO just means that your ovaries have cysts. It's generally fairly harmless, and I think a number like 20% of women have this. Your blood tests are borderline for PCOS, considering the high prolactin and low progesterone. Did they test your LH and FSH? They're a pretty reliable indicator of PCOS. Sometimes the numbers come up normal but the ratio is off, that ratio is what you're looking for. Often women with PCOS don't have any symptoms, especially when we're young.

Before you start the Clomid, if you determine you do have PCOS, you might want to consider starting on an insulin sensitizing medication. One recent study showed that women ith PCOS who took both metformin (the insulin sensitizer) and Clomid ovulated 91% of the time within 2 months. That's pretty impressive! The insulin sensitizers also help reduce the rate of miscarriage, something that us PCOS'ers have a lot of trouble with.

I wish you all the best as you wait for the child of your dreams! Let us know if we can help further.

At Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Angie wrote: >
>Hello ladies, I am a 20 year old African American female and I have been
>trying to get pg for the past 6 months. I just had an ultrasound last
>week and the diagnosis per the radiology tech seems to be Polycycstic
>Ovrian Syndrome. My PCP is sticking with that, being as that all of the
>other test that she did were normal, the ultrasound showed multiple cyst
>on the ovaries and that was it. I have been to several GYN's prior to
>this ultrasound and no one else concluded that this was the problem. I
>have some of the symptoms but not many. All of my other hormone test
>and the blood work that I have done has come back normal, with the
>exception of Prolactin which was borderline at 21.3 and progestrone
>which was below 5 about 2.27. I haven't had a af since February, (they
>have never been regular). If PCOS is really the case I would like to
>start chlomid ASAP and I would like to know the pro's and con's of this
>medication and also how effective is it and how long does it usually
>take to see results? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>
>--
>Baby Dust To All**********************************Angie
>
>Baby Dust To All**********************************Angie

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