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Re: People confusing PCOS with Diabetes

From: angelaj (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:31:36 -0500 (CDT)

YES!! I had a hysterectomy in February of this year. It took an act of congress to get it through my nurse's head after surgery that I was not diabetic. She kept asking me what my sugars were reading at home, and I kept having to explain that I was IR/PCOS, not diabetic. Finally, after the second day after my surgery, she quit asking and all was well...

At Tue, 1 Oct 2002, anonymous wrote: >
>Does anyone else have this problem? I have been to a few new dr's
>recently(eye Dr, and a general surgeon) and then they saw that I am on
>Glucophage, they said, oh you are diabetic, and I tried to explain, that
>no I'm not, I am IR and have PCOS. Yet they still list me as diabetic.
>When I question as to why they list me as diabetic, they said that
>because I am on Glucophage, I have to be treated as a diabetic. Has
>this happened to anyone else?

--
angela



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