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Concerned (looong)From: anonymous (anonymous@obgyn.net)Wed, 21 May 2003 11:49:39 -0500 (CDT)
Hi. I'm 22 yrs. old with irregular periods. I've never been to a gyno mostly because I don't like visiting doctors, guess I’m scared of them...I first got my period when I was 12 and I was pretty regular for the most part, I remember skipping a few here and there. I've always been overweight and my pediatrician once tested my thyroids for problems with weight but it came back normal I guess because it wasn’t brought up again. Around that age maybe 14/15/16 I noticed darkening in between my thighs and my pediatrician said it was a rash and prescribed cortisone or something like that. I also had 3 skin tags removed for some reason I can’t remember maybe to check if anything was wrong with them but was told it was ok. The darkening has continued and gotten worse over the years but I always attributed it to my thighs rubbing against each other. When I went off to college in 1999 my periods became lighter and more irregular, I attributed that to stress, new environment and severe depression over my best friends suicidal death. My periods never did go back to the heavier flow they used to be, I was thinking it was because of my constant weight gain. I still got my period basically every month, lighter although for a few hours or a day blow flow would increase on some months. My second year of college I noticed more hair under my chin, on the sides of my face, and abdomen/stomach...it could be that I never paid attention to it before or that I really was growing more hair. I shaved the hair under my chin one day and since then have had to shave stubble basically everyday, I don’t understand how it grows back so fast, it’s also really dark obvious hair so I cant just let is grow back and leave it! In december/november I was spotting/very light almost watery menstrual flow that was more present in toilet paper than on a pad. At that time I was also going through a severe depression and was put on Prozac and then Zoloft. The spotting stopped and my period in February was of light flow as it had been the past few years. march came and with is a perfectly normal period, good flow, average clots, 6 or 7 days in which the first and last were very light. I felt like I was getting back on track with my periods and happy I hadn’t had to resort to artificial solutions. April came and no period, I began obsessing over possibly having some type of gynecological cancer (I have obsessive thoughts, diagnosed besides clinical depression with slight obsessive compulsive disorder and hypochondria) and reading up about it, meanwhile I found information on pcos and noticed a few symptoms with that such as the hairiness, what I now think is acanthosis nigricans between my thighs, in groin and under arms, irregular, light or missing periods, blood pressure 140/90, I know I have elevated cholesterol because last time I was tested it was higher, I’m 210lbs 5'5, have noticed the past few years my hair has been falling out, I used to have very full hair, now it is thinner and I notice a lot of hair in the tub when I wash it or on the carpet when I comb it, I also have skin tags under my arms, in between my thighs. May has come and no period, although I keep feeling as if it’s about to start, maybe wishful thinking. I went to my college health center and they gave me a pregnancy which of course came back negative since I am not sexually active, and the doctor checked my belly and then told me to wait for my period to come because its normal to miss periods around finals especially with the added stress of graduation and she told me to see my primary physician because I might need birth control to regulate. I know I should go to a doctor, but I’m just so scared of what I will they will find I get panic attacks, insomnia, stomach aches, which I know definitely doesn’t help my period possibly coming. HELP
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