Re: What does this mean????
From: Chris (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 18 Sep 2001 12:44:56 +1000
Belinda you are right. The Multiple follicles within a polycystic ovary are
due to the follicles never maturing enough to ovulate. There is no reason I
can think of why the egg would have trouble travelling to the tubes, but
corpus luteum follicles are often not very strong in women with PCOS.
Emma
>----- Original Message -----
From: Belinda <anonymous@obgyn.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS <anonymous@obgyn.net>
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: What does this mean????
> At Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Joanne wrote:
> >
> > With trying to get pregnant though, and you think or know > that your
ovulating doesn't mean that the ovulation is > strong enough to produce an
egg follice that actually > makes it into the fallopian tubes to be
fertilized and so > on. With PCO we may or maynot ovualte, usually not, but
> if we do it's not a strong signal and the egg ends up > sitting on top of
our ovaries, thus polycystic ovaries.
>
> is this right? I thought that after you've ovulated the follicle that
> released the egg, now called the corpus luteum, starts to produce
> progesterone, which is what causes the increase in temperature - so if
> you get the raise you've almost certainly ovulated.
>
> Once PCOS women have ovulated, there are hormonal reasons that we may
> not be able to sustain a pregnancy, but there are no particular reasons
> why a released egg won't make it to the fallopian tubes.
>
> The cysts on the ovaries are follicles that ripen and mature but DON'T
> release the egg - i.e. no ovulation.
>
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