PCOS Messages for May, 2002: Re: I lost my period!

Re: I lost my period!

From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 9 May 2002 09:16:38 -0500 (CDT)

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The regular met again might do the trick... but I'm wondering if maybe the aldactone played a role? I took aldactone for a little over a month at one time - 200mg a day - and after I stopped (due to constant vaginal bleeding) I had clockwork periods, every 5 weeks, for the next 4 months. This was priot to starting metformin... and I have NEVER had regular periods before in my life. I have this hunch that the manner in which aldactone blocks testosterones effects on the skin also blocks the effects on the ovary... and can allow for ovulation/regular periods. I have read that there have been scattered reports of its being used as a fertility agent but that this is not reccomended due to the birth defects risk... I think I read this in Thatcher's book.

Just a thought... it COULD have been that the met wasn't what was working for you, rather it was the aldactone. Try going on regular met again, though - it's available in generic now, whee! - and see if that helps. Why did your doc switch your meds if they were working for you? Are you ttc?

- jodi =

At Wed, 8 May 2002, Sally wrote: >
>Hi Halle,
>
>just a shot in the dark, but perhaps you should go back to the regular
>metformin. Apparently the XR can work differently - for some people.
>Also, for some reason, some people seem to get a better response on a
>lower dose of met rather than the higher.
>
>Anyway, surely it wouldn't hurt to go back to the regular met. and see
>if that helps. SOrry have to ask, but you wouldn't be pregnant? Also,
>major recent stresses could mess up your period.
>
>Best wishes
>
>--
>Sally
>
>At Wed, 8 May 2002, Halle wrote:
>>
>>I was on met 1500 mg and aldactone 100 mg for the past year. I got my
>>perios every four weeks for the first few months, and then it jumped to
>>twice a month!
>>
>>Anyway, my doc switched me to 1500 mg XR and I got off the aldactone.
>>Now it has been over 6 weeks since I have had a period and I don't see
>>one on the horizon...
>>
>>Has anyone else experienced somoething like this?
>>
>>Without meds(BCP, met, etc) I would get my period only 2 or 3 times a
>>year...
>>
>>thanks
>

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