PCOS Messages for September, 2002: Re: Help, need words of wisdom!!!!

Re: Help, need words of wisdom!!!!

From: Amelie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:30:57 -0500 (CDT)

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Wow, that sounds a little like me, only, they sprung my diagnosis on me while I was driving in the car talking on my cell phone. (I take great comfort in the fact that when I typed in "PCOS Support" into google, it took me nearly directly here.) And that was before all the tests that came out normal range. I am normal. My insulin reading was an 18. Normal. My glucose was a 97. Normal. So really, you are sort of like me, as I got diagnosed before I got the normals. But I think you are fabulous, anyway. I had a glass of wine tonight.

My doc is convinced I have it, I'm pretty convinced I have it (due to the fact that hello, I do not respond to hormone therapy very happily, and gain weight on pills like crazy. Also, I have insane periods. I will not lie, they are oligomenarchic, and EVIL from HELL. Also, well, I just have to have it because nothing else do I have.) But everything so far in normal range, though they seem to be a very HIGH normal. Anyway,

Get another doctor asap. Something is up, I tell ya. You may have something else going on, there are apparently serious endocrine probs that present with similar symptoms.

Much love and good luck to you,

-- Amelie (who has skin tags on her neck. Does that mean anything? I read on some homeopathic site it means your "colon does not work properly". Man. My colon, now? I need more?)

At Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Barlow wrote: > >Ok..here's my story. I started researchng PCOS several years ago when I >noticed some irregular things happening to my body. I have many >symptoms common to PCOS...skin tags, dark patches of skin, thick dark >hair growth on arms and face, thinning hair on head, overweight, >irregular periods, etc. I finally decided to go to a doctor last month. >He is a fertility doctor specializing in endocrine problems. I told him >my symptoms, he ordered blood work and an ultrasound. Now the story >gets strange...no one called me with results after 1.5 weeks. I called >and the nurse said "All your tests were within normal limits." I was >like, uhh ok, then can you explain why I have no periods and unnatural >hair growth. She asked me to hold, came back and told me my ultrasound >showed that my ovaries showed a PCOS pattern or something andthat some >hormone, male I presume, is on the high end. So then they ordered a >Glucose tolerance test, insulin tolerance test. So I drank the 100 mg >of Dextrose or whatever and went home. That was yesterday. I just >checked my messages, and there she is again telling me my tests are in >normal range, and that if I have any questions, I should call. Of >course, I still have the same questions. duh. Why do I have these >symptoms? Has anyone out there experienced this? Does this mean Ido not >have PCOS? I need some words of wisdom, as many as possible. Please >help! >-Worried

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