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Re: (DR L.MONTGOMERY) I need some answers (or educated guesses). PLEASE HELP ME(long)From: crystal (anonymous@obgyn.net)Thu, 5 Oct 2000 10:35:35 -0500 (CDT)
>>Hi I am a 26 yr old female who over the years has had many problems with >>her female organs. I just asked to be sent to a endocrinologist to see >>if they can help me but I'd really like to go in at least having an idea >>of what may be wrong with me. >>I don't expect anyone to have the answers but I would love to have your >>opinions as to what I may be dealing with. >> here's a breif history..... >> >>i have always been real regular up until i was 19 then I started getting >>severe stomach pains that were paralizing. they came and went sometimes >>even making me nausiated , lightheaded or dizzy. this went on for years >>no one knowing why. >>at 20 I had such pain that I'd have to leave work so that I could seek >>treatment. One day a nurse at a free clinic I was passing noticed I was >>in pain and asked me to come in. she sat me down and we talked for a >>few minutes about how i had lost my cycles and was having sharp pains >>and then she gave me some anti inflamitory drugs and told me to go to >>planned parenthood for a work-up. I went the next day and had a pap >>done and left because the anti inflamitory drugs seemed to be easing the >>pain. while on the drugs the pain completely went away and I got >>pregnant. 2 days later i got a note in the mail that my pap looked >>funny and I needed to go see an obgyn. went there and had a caloscopy >>due to being pregnant i couldn't do a bio. it came back as reading a >>little funny but he said it wasn't bad and could be monitored. >>after my son was born i returned for a pap and an ultrasound. the pap >>was normal and the ultra sound showed @ 1 dozen small cyst on each >>ovary. they said it was nothing to worry about and sent me home. the >>next month (4 months after having my son) my cycles went away again. >>@ age 22 i was put on bc pills to regain my cycles, it worked for almost >>a year. then i started getting a strange swelling ( gain 30 pounds of >>water litteraly over night) and was put on water pills... they worked >>too. one day i was cramping real bad and had to go to the er. he said >>i had a high white blood cell count in my urine but that he couldn't >>find any signs of infection in my urinary tract (never found out what >>caused this). >>at 23 I went off all meds and was trying for a second child, it took >>forever. it wasn't until the doc put me back on anti inflamitory pills >>for the pain and swelling in my stomach that I finally got pregnant, >>again after having received back a bad pap. >>this prgnancy like before went off without many problems other then an >>excessive weight loss while pregnant (40+ with first child, 100+ with >>second),and on both ocassions my cervics dialated at least 2 months too >>early causing me to have them both a month early. >>now we are almost up to date. after having my son my cycles returned >>for 3 months. then they just disappeared (not that i miss them much)but >>after they left all sorts of weird things started to happen. >> my bladder kept having slight leakage >> my pain in my lower stomach returned >>I instantly gained 80 pounds in under 3 months AFTER HAVING LOST MY >>CYCLE >> my hair started falling out >> my mood swings so much that even I can't tollerate me >> the swelling returned and worse >> still having high white count in urine >> ovaries still very sensitive >> no sex drive, and on ocassion i do .......IT HURTS >> puss being excreted from vagina >> and now i have hair growing on my upper lip---what's that about? >> >>what could be wrong with me.. I need some ideas so that i know what i >>need to research and what i need to ask my doctor to rule out. >> >>see i haven't gone back for a pap since just after my son was born and >>lost my cycle that month..that's right , no cycle for almost 15 months. >>can cry if someone says my name wrong and a total mess. >> >> I need some answers or a gun... can I get any help at all? >> now we are almost >> >>-- >>crystal >> >Crystal, >Based on your history, I have serveral observations: >1. By your history, it sounds as though you have polycystic ovarian >syndrome (i.e. the loss of periods, the weight gain, the hair growth, >etc.) It is good that you are going to see an endocrinologist. >2. You need an evaluation of your cervix to assure that this pap is >normal. >3. You need to have at least three-four periods per year to maintain >uterine health. Talk this over with your endocrinologist. >4. You need a urologic evaluaion to determine why you have persistent >white cells in your urine. This could be very significant... >Lynn > >-- >Lynn D. Montgomery, MD >Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine >Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center >Missoula, Montana
>I had at first thought it was PCOS but I do not have the hair growth on my chest chin or neck, just my upper lip.
-- crystal
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