PCOS Messages for October, 2001: Re: Christine Re: Has anyone gotten better on glucophage?

Re: Christine Re: Has anyone gotten better on glucophage?

From: Belle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:20:32 -0500 (CDT)

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Prednisone is a steroid (not like athletes)and has its own problems. They are not good long term. You may want to do some research on it. We (Dr. and myself) have worked very hard to get my daughter off of prednisone (for asthma). As far as birth defects, there have been no studies done on birth defects with Glucophage. Most drs do not recommend taking Glucophage while pregnant. They do not recommend you take any drugs usually. The reason they do not recommend Glucophage is because there are no studies. The women who have taken Glucophage while pregnant have have lower instances of miscarriages and I am aware of NO birth defects in this *small* group of women.

As far as the house problems, I have had far less hair on my face and legs since taking Glucophage.

At Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Jennifer wrote: >
>Do you know anything about taking just prednisone? I have high levels of
>testosterone and my doctor put me on prednisone only. She gave me the
>choice of glucophage or prednisone. I choose Pred only because I had
>never heard of gluc and she said their was a lower number of birth
>defects on pred. Do you know anything about having only a high testos
>level and how effective pred is alone?
>At Tue, 29 May 2001, jodi wrote:
>>
>>Has the glucophage done anything for the hair problems? I can't figure
>>out the source of
>>my reduced hairiness, and am hoping it MIGHT be the gluc... might be
>>easier to make the plunge and
>>go gluc alone again if others have had a hair reduction on it. :) (I am
>>on BCPs, have been for just shy of
>>two cycles... noticed the decreased hairiness some time ago, not sure
>>what to chalk it up to. See my rantings
>>on this topic in "Quitting aldactone..."... heh.)
>>
>>- JOdi
>>

-- Hope this helps,

Belle

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