PCOS Messages for March, 2002: Re: Prednisone/Pregnancy Caused PCOS

Re: Prednisone/Pregnancy Caused PCOS

From: Belle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 24 Mar 2002 21:35:48 -0600 (CST)

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I have just a couple of comments to make here.

Barbara, I think you will not find that a lot of auto immune diseases are linked with *PCOS*. Instead I think that you will find that auto-immune disorders are related to each other. If you have one auto-immune disorder, you are more likely to have another. PCOS is not yet listed as an auto-immune disorder but since we are learning about its close association with insulin problems, it may be listed as such in the future.

I am not aware of any data that indicates that women with PCOS are more likely to have Epstein-Barr virus than any other woman. However, Epstein Barr virus has frequently found in people with auto-immune disorders and as we know auto-immune disorders are found predominantly in women (about 75% of people with these disorders are women). Almost all auto-immune diseases have been linked with (or have studies to investigate a link with) mono (which is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus). You are only able to get mono once in your life -- however, the virus has the ability to go dormant and then reactivate ("second verse same as the first" kind of deal).

The striae that women with PCOS usually have is the result of the stretching of the skin associated with weight gain. The gain does not have to be a large gain, just quick. You can get these stretch marks as a young teen when your body begins developing. The striae that is associated with Cushing's is different. If you were to see the marks, you would quickly be able to distinguish between the two.

At Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Barbra wrote: >
>Seems some scientific
>evidence does exhist out there that alot of autoimmune deficiency
>diseases are somehow linked to PCOS. Lupus being one of them. Epstein Bar
>virus is shown to have been present in many with PCOs as well as
>Lupus. In my lupus support group,I have noticed that most
>women have had mono. I had mono three times,despite a specialist with
>infectious disease told me that you can only get mono once... This I am uncertain
>of. Times I tested positive..were the times I know that I had full blown
>mono.
>
>I believe alot with PCOS have strai....the
>stripe-stretch marks.
>Alternate-day therapy may help prevent its development-I would not
>dismiss that prednisone(Deltasone) could have done some permanent damage
>to your endocrine system.
>
>that prednisone can
>cause lupus...that is another story.
>
>--
>Sincerely,
>Barbra Camara
>

-- Hope this helps to clarify some things,

Belle

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