Re: What do I do ?
From: Sonnet (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 29 Jun 2003 09:26:32 -0500 (CDT)
Depends on what this doctor is doing to treat your PCOS. If they're
actually being proactive about your treatment and helping you find
answers, you've found a good one - stick with them!! If they're telling
you to diet, doing nothing, or just offering you the pill to normalize
your periods, change and don't look back.
Women with PCOS often DO have multiple cysts on their ovaries, but not
always. Many women who do NOT have PCOS also have cysts. The cysts
that are not related to PCOS sometimes come and go as hormone changes in
the menstrual cycle come and go. So your doctor is probably checking to
see, as you say, if your cysts go away - which would mean, if they did,
that they are probably one PCOS symptom you don't have to worry too much
about.
Has this doctor done bloodwork? Especially insulin levels? Have they
kept you on the Glucophage and tried different doses or other insulin
medications? Has (s)he suggested a low carb diet to you? All these
things can actually help with PCOS.
Hang in there. I was 370lbs just about 2 years ago. A new endo raised
my gluc. dose and even without really low carbing, I lost 70lbs and
found myself pregnant, not to mention having all kinds of energy,
feeling good, sleeping at night, and so on. Finding the right treatment
is key, but you're not doomed by any means!
At Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Judith wrote:
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>Well I don't know where to begen . So I will start here . I have been
>heavey all my life . But always just alittle over weight . But About
>10 years ago I started to gain alot of weight . I have gone from a
>normal weight of 180 to 330 pounds . The first doctor I went to told me
>to go to weight watchers . Then my mom sent me an artical from a
>magazine . It was about PCOS . I took this artical to my doc at the
>time . She said that I was just over weight and needed to diet . So I
>changed doctors . The next one did discover I had PCOS,put me on
>Glucophage and said that I would always be obeast . That there was
>nothing he could do . Well the pills did not help . I still was
>gaining weight . At this point I was 280 . I got a really good job and
>was working all the time . But my pain was geting worse and I could not
>focuse at work anymore . I also worked in the 7th relme of hell .
>Anyways I started to have sever lower back pain . Plus the periods
>coming when ever they wanted and lasting 10 to 15 days with exstreamly
>heavy bleading, vomiting and high fever.I was geting sicker all the time
>. At this point I hurt all the time . I could not handle working
>anymore . One morning I woke up and just could not go to that job any
>more . I Quit I got really sick and started to gain more weight. So
>here I am with a new doctor and at 330 pounds . I have been bleading
>for about 3 months straight I can't hardly walk or do much of anything .
>I went to a new doctor and I went and had an ultrasound done . This is
>a good one . So I wait for the results and when the nurse called me
>back she said you have cistes on your overies . I said I know I have
>PCOS . She said oh but you have multiple one on your overies and the
>doctor wants you to get another ultra sound to see if they GO AWAY . Go
>away . What should I do change doctors again .
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