PCOS Messages for August, 2003: Re: lief...I am not crazy....my dr. diagnosed with PCOS!

Re: lief...I am not crazy....my dr. diagnosed with PCOS!

From: click (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 26 Aug 2003 11:48:11 -0500 (CDT)

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That is spectacularly wonderful!

When I was diagnosed, I had just switched doctors (I was 16) because every doctor I went to said that I was too young for them to investigate anything gynecologically wrong with me since I was not active at the time, said that women's periods are screwy until they are in their 20's, etc etc, and I was gaining unexplained weight hardly eating anything and everywhere I went the dr's told me to loose weight--well I didn't have energy to work out, I felt like shit all the time, I wasn't depressed or stressed, I hardly ate anything at all (very small portions-rarely hungry) but was overweight, etc etc etc..No period for more than a year, too. They told me to wait. I haddn't had one for 6 months so the doctor blew me off-when It had been more than a year and I switched doctors, they nailed it without bloodwork and said they would diagnose after the bloodwork was back, and they were right.

My gyno put me on progesterone for 5 days at a high dosage to induce a period that lasted me 30 days on the nose and made me loose almost 10 pounds. Way to start my sophomore year, huh?

When t he period was over, I started birth control pills, and about two weeks after that I was started on metformin, which didn'tw ork out too well for me so I switched to glucophage XR about two months later and started loosing weight as effortlessly as I had put it on. I came to a plateau about 6 months after that and haven't really been able to loose weight since then, but I know there is room for improvement in my excerscise plan, though my eating is mostly under control (as it was never a problem).

Anyhow, I wish you lots of luck, you're going in the right direction and I am ecstatic for you that you've found good doctors.

At Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Amy wrote: >
>After almost two years with the signs and symptoms of PCOS...it took me
>changing to a new dr. to get someome to listen and review my medical
>file. Well, my wonderful new gyno....Dr. T. Johnson...she listened to
>me and saw the signs and symptoms that I have complained of and guess
>wehat she diagnoed me...is it weird but I feel relieved. The course of
>action is to get my period to start again...I haven't had one in 9
>months! She said that I may be in ovarian failure and she prescribe
>provera, took me off the pill and told me that in January I will begin
>metformin. I can't tell you how good it felt today at my check up to
>find that she knew so much about PCOS and she is willing to help me. I
>really am thankful because I my other dr didn't think that the hair
>loss, weight gain, dark skin patches, lack of periods and ovarian cysts
>were connected. Thank God, my other dr. always thought that I was just
>depressed and stressed. I know that PCOS is not good, but at least she
>agrees with me. Never has bad news sounded good. I want to have a baby
>next year and she said that it will happen.
>
>--
>Thanks Amy
>

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