PCOS Messages for January, 2003: Re: cortisol and abdominal fat

Re: cortisol and abdominal fat

From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 29 Jan 2003 02:49:39 -0600 (CST)

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I am just about of normal weight and I've always had this weight round my middle and whenever I have lost weight (which has not been very much)it has never been from round there. I'm quite keen to get a cortisol test done, although I think I do have PCOS not anything else. I think I've read some women with PCOS can have slighlty elevated cortisol levels- but I'm not sure where, so I'm not vouching for the accuracy of this information. The only other thing I'm wondering about, which might be totally wrong, is whether or not lack of ovulation and low progesterone levels might partly be to blame for weight distribution? Like I think progesterone is meant to encourage weight on the hips and sometimes at menopause a woman's shape may change to have more abdominal fat....???

t Mon, 27 Jan 2003, anonymous wrote: >
>Once again, I am asking for both info and help. Althought my 18 year
>old daughter has been taking 1500 mg of metformin, yasmin, low carbing,
>and excercising 15 hours per week, she has not lost any weight around
>her middle...I recently read an article where researchers from Yale have
>uncovered a link between the stress hormone cortisol and abdominal fat
>in otherwise slender women. Her reproductive endocrinologist asked if
>possibly her headaches could be stress related because she has been
>having headaches about 12 days out of each month. Does anyone have any
>info on cortisol and pcos? Is there a test my daughter could have done?
>Thanks, you are all great.

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