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Re: Help, need words of wisdom!!!!
From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 12:51:52 -0500 (CDT)
what are skin tags?
At Wed, 25 Sep 2002, kim wrote:
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>Skin tags = insulin resistance.
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> KIM(30 SOMETHING)dh SCOTT- JUST A BABE AT ONLY 30
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>DX - PCOS/IR, hyperinsulinenmeia, thyroid failure, depression, infertility with repeated m/c.
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>7m/c's 8 babies. TTC#1 - forever!!! Last 6 straight with IF meds till May 2002. Finally O'ing with met alone!!
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>Meds - Metformin 2500, synthyroid, wellbutrin, 81mg asprin, 1mg folic acid, vitamens C&E&daily.
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>>From: anonymous@obgyn.net (Amelie)
>>Reply-To: anonymous@obgyn.net
>>To: Multiple recipients of list PCOS
>>Subject: Re: Help, need words of wisdom!!!!
>>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:32:53 -0500
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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.
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>>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,
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>>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.
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>>Much love and good luck to you,
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>>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?)
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>>At Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Barlow wrote:
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>> >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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