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Any advice? (sorry, long)From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:21:12 -0600 (CST)
I was recently diagnosed with PCOS (well, at least the doc suspects that, he couldn't see any polycystic ovaries but rest of the symptoms points toward that). I had pretty regular periods until 4 years ago when I put on some weight (mind you, I was never overweight but 10-15 pounds more than I used to be) and I started to have every other cycle totally messed up (I'd start bleeding around ovulation time and it wouldn't stop for weeks sometimes). I have lost some weight the last year so I am almost back to my "normal" weight and I don't bleed forever any longer. My cycles are better, I ovulate, although late, and some cycles tend to be very long. My husband has some issues with his fertility too, he just started the treatment. And we really do want to get pregnant soon (I am 35 now). I talked to my doctor last week since I felt something needed to be done about me too. I told him my concerns and asked if I should be prescribed metformin. His response was that it really isn't proven that it'd make things better, it's better to lose weight (I should point out that I live in Europe and apparantly the leading expert in this area in Europe does not think that it is metformin itself that has effect, rather it's the weight loss that often follows it that is effective). He also said that the side effects are not very nice. He felt I should wait in any case until my husband's problems have been solved. I don't agree with the doctor, I have read some papers in medical journals (and I have a background in molecular biology so I have no problems in understanding them either). I cannot change doctor either since he's the one in charge for the IVF department in case we might need to do that (IVF is free here but you have to be in queue for at least a year or so). I am not sure that any other doctor would be better either since the gynocologist I saw earlier even couldn't come up with an explanation to my problems. So, what should I do? Try to convince my doctor with papers or just wait and see what happens? Try to lose some more weight? Billi
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