PCOS Messages for May, 2003: Re: Concerned (looong)

Re: Concerned (looong)

From: Pam (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Wed, 21 May 2003 16:39:16 -0500 (CDT)

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At Wed, 21 May 2003, anonymous wrote: >
>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

The first thing I would advise u to do is get urself to a gyno. The most important thing u need right now is a routine pelvic exam!!

While u are with ur gyno u need to list all ur symptoms (print out ur post here and let him/her read it)There is a possability u could be PCOS/IR/diabetic... u could be anyone or all of these. u have many of the symptoms for all of them, but many of the symptoms overlap diseases. Only a good Gynocologist can diagnose u and ultimately treat u.

Good luck

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