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Re: Depressed!!!
From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:21:44 -0600 (CST)
The treatments we have now for PCOS may not only stop (or even reverse?)
your hair loss, but they can really help with the depression and mood
swings as well! It's important that you get treated for your PCOS, so
your son can have his mommy around for as long as possible. I know my
hair started falling out when I was 9, and I had big bald patches for
ages. Now, after taking metformin and thyroid medication it's back,
curly, full, totally covers my head again and looks and feels perfectly
normal and wonderful. So, there's definitely hope! But seeing a doctor
who is up to date and really knows how to agressively treat PCOS (not
just with bcp's) is a definite must. Good luck!
At Wed, 20 Feb 2002, anonymous wrote:
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>Hi everyone, i wrote my story months and months ago, dont know if anyone
>remembers me! I'm gonna be 32 tomorrow, the 21st, maybe thats why im so
>depressed, but don't think so, I have a 2 year old son, who is my
>miracle, dont know how i got pregnant and had him, i just thank God for
>him everyday. I'm finally going to a doctor next week, i haven't up
>until now because of insurance problems. I've always had PCOS i
>suppose, i started my period when i was 11, and it was the most awful
>thing ever, very very heavy, i felt so strange and abnormal, and kept it
>to myself, after i started menstrating, every year i became more and
>more overweight, I once was over 300, but now i stay at 200 or a little
>below but thats hard, then my periods became very irregular, maybe twice
>a year for awhile, then i got excessive facial hair, excessive hair
>everywhere!! I never even heard of PCOS back then, just thought i was
>very very strange, even for awhile as a teenager thought maybe i was
>suppose to have been a boy.. is that crazy? finally at the age of 28 i
>was seeing a gyn trying to conceive a child, that was after 2 losses, he
>mentioned PCOS, he said he'll need blood tests but by looks and my
>menstral history he was pretty sure i had it, i was to go back two weeks
>later for tests and so forth, but it turned out i was pregnant, so i
>never followed up with the PCOS thing, the pregnancy went well.. despite
>me being diabetic, which i was diagnosed with when i was 21, i take
>insulin injections 3x a day :( so i had my son, after the birth my PCOS
>got worse it seems.. i started experiencing alot of hair loss.. my
>hair was so thick, now its thin as can be, and i have my period every 3
>months, and its really normal when i have it, never heavy, but every
>month i still have PMS just never my period, the main thing that has my
>depressed right now is this hair loss.. can anyone tell me if this is
>reversible in women with PCOS, and does anything like using rogaine
>help, or only perscription medications????? I'm so depressed i dont even
>want to get out of bed, some days i dont even wanna live anymore.. i
>cry alot, this is just really bad, my son keeps me going.. Thank God
>for him, cause i don't know what i would do. I know that b/c pills can
>cause hair loss, but has it stopped the hair loss in anyone?? I'd be
>pulling my hair out except i dont have a whole lot left to pull :(
>Please someone help!!!
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Email always welcome: sonnet@pcosupport.org
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