WOMENS-HEALTH Messages for May, 2001: Re: Hair loss, night sweats, fatigue, mood swings, heavy periods ... hormone imbalance?

Re: Hair loss, night sweats, fatigue, mood swings, heavy periods ... hormone imbalance?

From: Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun, 20 May 2001 22:01:31 -0500 (CDT)

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This is sufficiently wide spread in scope to warrant an evaluation by a gynecologist AND an endocrinologist. Something is being missed but it's not clear from the history exactly what that is.

Let us know how you do after the evaluations and we may be able to assist you with other recommendations.

HSM

At Sun, 20 May 2001, Sonia wrote: >
>I have posted a couple of questions on here and would like to ask some
>more of your advice. I have many symptoms and it seems that there is
>more than just one thing going on with me. These symptoms that I am
>writing about today seem to go hand in hand and I am concerned because
>they totally control my life. I am losing my hair by the hand fulls
>every day ... it seems to get bad and then slow down but not normal by
>any means, for me. I sweat at night so bad that I wake up with my shirt
>soaked through with a pool of sweat in the curve of my neck, then I am
>shivering and can't get warm because of being wet. I have fatigue to
>where my muscles feel heavy. My mood swings are just uncontrollable and
>my periods are heavy and painful. I have had these symtoms for three
>years, ever since my son was born and I have been over them with my
>family doc ... he has given me two blood work ups that came out fine.
>checked thyroid twice and checked for diabetes. I have had one hormone
>test. Are there more tests that can be done? Could this be some kind of
>hormone imbalance? Possible PCOS? I have had cysts removed from my
>ovaries through laproscopy and again have a cyst inside my right ovary
>at the present time. I am considering getting a hyst because of pain
>and my periods putting me into bed. I am wondering if I found out that
>I had PCOS, would the symptoms stop if we took out the ovaries as well?
>My symptoms seem to be like menopause but I am 28 and my periods are
>regular. Weight is 110.
>Sonia Lewis

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Harvey S. Marchbein, M.D. FACOG, FACS
Great Neck, New York

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