PCOS Messages for April, 2002: Re: the deeps joys of the uk national health

Re: the deeps joys of the uk national health

From: Isabella (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:32:28 -0500 (CDT)

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Hi Suzy, I can so sympathise with you over this, as this was the initial reaction I got from my NHS GP. Luckily I have private medical insurance and got seen by a good gynea who put me on Metformin. In all it took about 5 months to get any sort of answer/treatment from anybody, but this was after years of feeling dreadful and being told by a whole host of GPs that 'its just something that some women have to put up with dear' - GRRRRRR! And they still won't admit the tiredness & migraines have anything to do with it! But they have greatly improved since I went on the Met, so I'd go back to the doctors and request it if I were you. And if they say no, go to another doctor. I'm afraid I live in South West London, so I can't recommend you to my Mr Ross, because he's too far away, but I hope you get some help soon. In the meantime, there's a book called PCOS (cunning!) that's by Colette Harris & Adam Carey that' packed full of useful information, on hormones, diet, medication, stress - everything. I got mine from Amazon. Hope this helps! iZ xx

At Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Suzy wrote: >
>hiya, this is probably more rant than anything else. I was told by my
>lovely doctor today that, a. I would only get treatment (of any kind)
>for my PCOS if I wanted to get pregrnant, I should lose weight (even
>though I tried ot ask for help with this, there was none, even though
>I'm craving carbs 24/7) and that my severe fatigue is possibly caused by
>my imagination or my beta blockers, so I have to choose crippling
>migrains or the fatigue and get on with my life. Neddless to say I'm
>now looking for a new doctor. The really sucky thing is, I've only got
>a few weeks left of my uni course, and there is nothing I can do, My dad
>is insisting that I move back in with him because I dont look after
>myself, and the life that I'm supposed to get back to has completely
>dissapeared after being constantly fatigued/migrains for a year. I
>don't know who they think they are... it was really quite unbelievable.
>So I'm now on the endless search for a good doctor, so if anyone has any
>ideas about doctors in Scotland... please e-mail me, I'm even getting
>to the stage where I'm prepared to move to a new area simply to get a
>good one.
>
>my sympathy to everyone else out there who has an ignorant, and
>unbelievably rude doctor.
>
>Suzanne

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Isabella Cullen
London - UK

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