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SCARED!From: Amy (anonymous@obgyn.net)Sat, 13 Oct 2001 02:10:30 -0500 (CDT)
Hi, I'm turning 20 in less then a month, and I have suspected for a few months now that I have PCOS, I have alot of the symptoms, extremely embarrassing hair growth, abnormal periods, excessive weight gain, but my problem is that I cannot go to a doctor to get a professional diagnoses. I am EXTREMELY shy, and have am deathly afraid of doctors and needles. the last time I went to the doctor for a check up was in 94. I started to show symptoms of PCOS last Sept., it was the first time I had ever missed my period, at first i thought it was because of stress because my grandfather had just passed away earlier in the month and I was back in school, the next month i had my period back, so I just brushed it off as stress. but then again in Nov. I had missed it again, and it came back in Dec, I thought this was kinda unusual, then for 3 months I didn't get it at all and i started to develop facial hair and hair around my belly button, and the hair on my arms became darker, this became very embarrassing and I used facial hair remover to try to get rid of it but it just kept growing back. This is when I really started to worry, i thought I had a high testosrone level that was causing this. so I started to look around the internet and found information on PCOS and found I had most of the symptoms. the last few months I have been getting my period every month but it seems to last a bit longer and I just had it two weeks ago and now I have it again. Also about 3 years ago I was put on Prozac for depression, I had always been very thin and muscular, but as soon as I went on it I almost instantly gained 40lbs and all the weight seemed to go to my belly, so I was taken off that and put on Welbutrun, that caused me to loose a few lbs but made me become very moody and angry so i was taken off and never put back on anything, that was 2 years ago. immediately after going off it I gain alot of weight and have just recently stopped, I'm 5'8 and weighed 135, now I weight 220, and most of the weight has gone to my stomach, I look like I'm pregnant. My problem is, as I mentioned above I have an EXTREME shyness, and am terrified by doctors to the point of crying if someone even mentions the thought of me going, so I have never been to see a gyno, my parents have been pressuring me to go for 2 years now and I just can't do it, the thought of having my privates exposed and touched and having things inserted by a doctor makes me want to die, also I masturbate and I have heard that they ask that question and I would die from embarrassment if i had to answer it(I know, almost all women do it, and the doctor would think nothing of it, but I have never admitted to it to anyone) also I am terrified of needles, to the point of passing out once when I had to get just a little shot in the arm, and have even passed out at just the thought of giving blood, and I know that in ordered to be diagnosed with PCOS they would have to do blood work. I haven't told anyone about my suspicions about this disease, but I really want to get treatment for it, I'm tired of being fat and hairy. Is there any way I can get treatment for it without having to be exposed to a doctor or having blood taken from me?
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