PCOS Messages for April, 2002: Re: PCOS Help

Re: PCOS Help

From: Pat (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 08:42:35 -0700

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Run, don't walk to your gynecologist, and ask for the PCOS screening. Then ask for a referral to an endocrinologist, who can evaluate you and manage you appropriately. Things are changing so quickly, many providers can't keep up. There are medications you can start now to slow the progression of PCOS and weight gain, and help with your other symptoms. For starters, you should not be skipping cycles for that long, and need regulation. It is also very important to get the results of your labs (eg: diabetes) so you can determine for yourself where you are on the continuum. If you have PCOS, then you have IR, which is the pre-diabetic condition.

Why does your mom refuse to take you to a gynecologist ? Does she perhaps have PCOS ? Is she afraid you will be sexually active ? You need to be seen, especially if you are skipping periods. There is more to it than just being overweight. PCOS starts sometimes in early adolescence.

Here is an article about PCOS and Adolescents: http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/peds/pidl/adolesc/polcysov.htm and another good one: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/317/7154/329 http://www.advancedfertility.com/hirsute.htm

http://www.aace.com/clin/guidelines/hyperandrogenism2001.pdf

I realize these articles are quite technical, but print them out anyway, and read them for whatever you can get from them. Your mom needs to understand there is a significant problem, that needs further evaluation, in my opinion. For starters, you might not be diabetic yet, but probably heading in that direction.

-- Pat Sonnenstuhl, ARNP, CNM, MS Balanced Eating Support http://home.attbi.com/~cnmpat/favlowcarbsites.htm http://home.attbi.com/~cnmpat/siteindex.htm PCOS Support http://www.midwivesofwa.org/pcos.htm http://www.midwivesofwa.org//pcosarticles.htm

<<Subject: Am I just imagining it?

Lately I have been doing a lot of research online to try and figure out why I am having problems with my menstrual cycle, etc. I came across a lot of PCOS websites and I was shocked to find that I have a lot of the signs related to it. By the way, I am only 17 (well I will be in a couple of weeks). I am overweight, have been since I was younger, though. I have excess hair on my body and face. For the most part it is blonde hairs, but they have been getting darker in areas. I have acne, my menstrual cycle is not a monthly thing...they ranges anywhere from 3-14 months apart without having one. I have also read skin discoloration and skin tags are also a sign. I have discoloration everywhere on my body (neck, armpits, between thighs, and other place). I have skin tags in my arm pits and on my elbows. I have been tested for diabetes, but was told I do not have it. Oh, and also, I lose a huge, not normal, amount of hair off my head everyday. I dye my hair quite a bit though, so I am not sure if that has anything to do with it. It is extremely thin. The reason I came here is to ask if it IS a definate possibility that I might have this disease or if my symptoms are so common...that they can't necessarily be linked to PCOS. My mother refuses to take me to see a gynocologist, so I am basically in a bind and I don't know what to do. She says it's only because I am a teenager and I am overweight. It still worries me, so any advice would be very much appreciated! Thanks a lot!

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