WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for August, 2000: Re: Please help, question re: PCOS, BBT, avandia and ovulation

Re: Please help, question re: PCOS, BBT, avandia and ovulation

From: R. Daniel Braun, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:04:56 -0500 (CDT)

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In reply to: shellie: "Please help, question re: PCOS, BBT, avandia and ovulation"

At Thu, 31 Aug 2000, shellie wrote: >
>I was just dx with PCOS in July. I started Avandia over 2 weeks ago. At
>that time my ultrasound showed the string of pearls on one side and
>follicles on the other. Since then my temps had a rise. My question is
>does Avandia raise your BBT?

I don't know but I wouldn't expect it to.

Could this be a sign of ovulation?

It could be, but may not be.

I didn't >have O signs until a week into the temp rise. It actually went down and
>then the symptoms (nasty migraine, ewcm, cramps . . .) and went back
>up and has stayed up now. Can you ovulate without the nice low temps
>then high temps?

Oh yes. BBT charts are exquisitely dificult to read.

>
>Here's the temps since starting Avandia (previous to that they hovered
>around 97.2-5 with a few spikes here and there). The one time I know I
>ovulated (I have a daughter), my temps went to 98.1 and stayed there.
>97.3
>97.6
>97.5
>97.3
>97.9
>98
>97.5 woke up with a fan on, open windows and freezing.
>98.2
>98.4
>98 ewcm
>97.7 woke an hour early this is where the symptoms were
>98.1
>98
>
>What do you think??

Don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Just have to wait and see.

RDB

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