PCOS Messages for March, 2002: Re: Birth Control Pills

Re: Birth Control Pills

From: Belle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 10 Mar 2002 19:01:50 -0600 (CST)

Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
Next message: Belle: "Re: PCOS jargon"
Previous message: anonymous@obgyn.net: "Provera"
In reply to: anonymous: "Birth Control Pills"

Congratulations to him. He is absolutely correct. The pill does make the symptoms worse is so many women with PCOS. While it may control certain aspects while you are on the pill, we have seen time and time again where women have come off of the pill only to find that they are unable to have a period on their own, rapid weight gain, facial hair, etc. Most of the problems do seem to come when the woman tries to go off of the pill. Your body tries so hard to counter-act the effects of the pill while you are on it that when you go off of the pill and you body has nothing to fight against, the PCOS ends up being worse. This is called a rebound effect.

The pill is **not** a treatment for PCOS. This was the only option that we had a decade ago but fortunately, we have much better choices for our health now.

The use of a tri-phasic pill does not have sufficient amount of progesterone to prevent us from forming cysts on our ovaries.

No matter which kind of pill that we use, the side effects of the pill are decreased metabolism (do we really need anything else to cause that for women with PCOS?), hirsituism (facial hair, or hair growth in unwanted places), weight gain, alopecia (scalp hair loss), etc.

There are a couple of pills that do not seem to be as bad for women with PCOS: Yasmin, Diane-35, etc. I am not aware of which, if any are available in the U.S.

It sounds like your doctor is up to date on the research for PCOS.

At Sat, 9 Mar 2002, anonymous wrote: >
>Recently went to see Dr. in process of diagnosing PCOS. Dr. wants to
>put me on Aldactone, which I have no objection to...however; when I
>questioned about the pill, the Dr. told me it was not an option because
>it would make my symptoms worse!! I was told to look into other options
>for birth control, he refused to prescribe. I was always under the
>impression that some pills with low "male" hormones, could actually help
>with PCOS...

-- Hope this helps,

Belle

Next message: Belle: "Re: PCOS jargon"
Previous message: anonymous@obgyn.net: "Provera"
In reply to: anonymous: "Birth Control Pills"

use when must restrict search to only the pcos forum...
Enter search keywords:
	Returns per screen: Require all keywords: