PCOS Messages for November, 2001: Re: Please help with with a school project!

Re: Please help with with a school project!

From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 08:07:04 -0600 (CST)

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1) i was 19 when i was diagnosed (am now 24). i was actually diagnosed by an excellent nurse practitioner at the health services office of my college. i'd been to a million doctors before regarding my lack of periods and everyone just told me i was "stressed out."

2) i got my period when i was 12 and started have trouble when i was 15--which is when my mother took me to see an obgyn. SO, i think i should have at least been diagnosed by the time i was 17 or so. even though i was diagnosed when i was 19, i did not receive proper medical/medicinal treatment for PCOS until i took it upon myself to see a PCOS specialist last year.

3) i had period troubles by the time i was 15 and the hair growth started then as well in addition to mild acne. all of these symptoms worsened as i got older since last year when i finally started getting the help i really needed, these symptoms have improved a bunch.

4) when you say "school," do you mean highschool or college? if it had been at my college, i definitely would have benefited because i would have been mature enough to handle the information and implement it into my life. i think health services centers at universities and colleges should DEFINITELY have pamphlets/literature about PCOS available. i mean, they have them for almost everything else, right? had i been younger, it definitely would have helped to have PCOS literature available.

hope that helps! good luck with your project! Sarah

At Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Meaghan wrote: >
>I am doing a project for one of my classes where I am trying to develop
>a program for schools to educate people about PCOS. The questions that
>I have for all of you are pretty simple to answer, and I think some of
>you have answered them before, but I would love it if anyone could
>answer them again, either on this forum or sent to my email address.
>Here are the questions:
>1) How old were you when you were diagnosed with PCOS?
>2) How old were you when you think you should have first been diagnosed?
>3) How old were you when you first started showing any signs of PCOS?
>and last, 4) If there had been information available to you in your
>school about PCOS, do you think it would have improved the quality of
>your life either at that age or now?
>Thank you all so much in advance!
>
>--
>Meaghan
>

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