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Re: A Ship with many holes...numbness....weightgain.....hirsuitism....seizures...From: Belle (anonymous@obgyn.net)Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:30:57 -0600 (CST)
What we have is PCOS not PCO. They are two distinctly different things. You can have polycystic ovaries and not have Poly-cystic Ovarian syndrome. It has only been a few years since we have found what seems to be the cause of PCOS. Less than 5 years. Many doctors are not yet aware of the problems that are associated with PCOS and as patients, we are not yet fully aware of the benefits of some of the medications and diet. Your numbness and tingling may be due to a number of things including heart disease or diabetes but they are not readily attributible to PCOS. Over 1/4 of the population will have some form of depression through out their lifetime. It is estimated that nearly a half of the population will have some sort of mental problem in their lives, many of these will have depression in association with another malady. This is men, women and children. Anxiety falls within this area of mental disturbance. While there are studies going on to see if women with PCOS are more likely than the normal population to develop these problems, it will have to be a fairly large number when you consider that women are twice as likely as men to have such a disorder. Your anxiety can not be directly attributable to PCOS as yet. Do you have any basis to prove that your sister's seizures are related to insulin? Do you have bloodsugar levels from around the time of the seizure activity that suggests a correlation? Do these seizures occur only within one to two hours of eating when the body would be releasing insulin? The reason I ask is because I have worked with many people with Type II diabetes and also many people with seizure activity and I have not seen a correlation. Sluggishness after meals could be due to the insulin resistance. Our bodies are unable to process foods properly and we are unable to get the energy that others can. Because the pitutary helps regulatesome of the same hormones that are affected in PCOS (either directly or through a negative feedback loop), it would be likely that some of the same symptoms would be involved. Many women have had the pitutary checked out before the PCOS diagnosis. Pituitary problems and PCOS are not related in the overall picture. It seems that the insulin problem is the cause of PCOS. The pituitary action is based on the abnormalities caused by the other hormone levels. Ovarian cysts are not the result of pituitary dysfunction. When we try to ovulate, our follicles are not allowed to mature and so they fill with fluid which causes the cysts. Check out http://www.pcosupport.org for a diagram of the cystic ovary and the cause thereof. Men do have a form of PCOS. Have you ever seen a man with weight gain in the middle, hair loss on the scalp and a hairy back? We have trouble being diagnosed, think about men! So what if they have higher testosterone? They are supposed to right? Men are not treated for the whole problem either. We are just finding the evidence of what the problem could be. We are hoping that the insulin sensitizers are attacking the source of the problem. There is a medication currently in testing phase which is being developed specifically for us. It is the first drug to do so. While I hope it has great success, I am aware that the first heart medication was helpful but did not cure the disease. Neither did the second, third, etc., but improvements were made each time. You may be frustrated but please take a moment to consider all of the women who have had PCOS throughout the ages. Your mother or grandmother likely had it and they were offered no treatment until the birth control pill came out, then in the 70s, speed was offered in an effort to assist in weight loss. We are living in a great time when it comes to PCOS.
At Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Jen wrote:
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