Hi Gina
The thing about PCOS is its symptoms are variable and often mistaken for something else. However, one of the commonest symptoms is loss of hair, often due to the increased sensitivity to testosterone - either the cystic ovaries don't produce enough oestrogen, which also provokes menstrual irregularity, or the testosterone production is hiked up, which may mean the periods are otherwise normal but the body tends to masculinise, i.e. loss of hair.
As your daughter has been diagnosed and the question was asked of her, you now have the perfect lever with your doctor. Go and tell him about your daughter's diagnosis and the question asked by her doctor, and ask for blood tests and scan (scans are often the only way PCOS is detected).
I think your problems are linked to testosterone... do you feel like you're turning into the Hulk?!!!
Hope this helps and keep us posted
LOL, :rollaugh:
That is a fitting way to say how I feel, the point where he starts to turn! you made me laugh.
You really have no idea how good it feels for someone else to " think " about what is going on with me. I have tried to talk to my hub about how I feel and he just can't get it, he listens, nods and lets me say everything then it's." honey, I haven't got the reply because I don't know about these things " then everyone else is " I have got MY problems listen to me and help me " when I feel bad, I just want the world to stop while I catch up with everything. Whats worse is when you tell people to give you a couple of days to get back to normal, it seems they think your being funny with them.
I am swinging backwards and forwards on the, is it me or my body, when it happens, it's me and " pull yourself out of it and carry on " comes to mind, when it passes it's " something to do with my body that needs fixing " one thing I have said many times that no one gets, or is it me that doesn't get it, is...if it's me how does it only happen at these same times over a month. I have made myself forget when I last came on and have managed to know when I am going to bleed within hours of doing so, just by how bad I feel.
I will make an apppointment with my doctor as even the stress of this going on and dealing with everything else is getting harder to handle for me. I know he will listen 5mins and say, anti-depressants is the cure. The fact he did a blood test 7 months back and nothing showed will tell him, it's just down to me stressing out.
Today it's clearing and losing my hair has just stopped!!!!!
I am narky with having to sort this and sort that out for everyone round me, I have had do some work this morning as I haven't done much the last few days ( god know's how I would handle having to go out to work) finshed that and picked the 3 yr old grandson up to look after till 6, then sort tea out for 7, in between which I have to completly empty my living room on my own because a decorator has been found, hip hip, and catch up on the housework that I haven't been doing as no one else does anything round here. oh and I have to get bath and get ready for 7.30 to go to a flaming charity thing.
THIS IS MY DAY TO PAMPER MYSELF TO TRY AND RELAX, I PLANNED :fit:
Gina xx
Hi Gina
Glad to have been of use to you!
I want you to do something for yourself now: I want you to visualise walking into your doctor's and telling him about your daughter's diagnosis, and how it's made you wonder if what you've got is related to it because your daughter's doctor has asked if you have it, and can you please have the tests that would give this other doctor a definitive answer.
Now I want you to visualise your doctor telling you that he will arrange for you to have blood tests and a scan to find out.
And now I want you to visualise walking out of there feeling happy that you have been heard.
OK?
And finally - remember what I said about the evening primrose or starflower oil, it really works!
:p
Hi There,
I got an appointment today with my doctor, I walked in, sat down, and I begun...
I mentioned about the timing of this, how bad it makes me feel and how my daughter had this and could I have it also.
his reply was..something would have showed up in the tests done 9 months back!!!!! He went through the stress speech and said that this was affecting me at certain times because my body was already low, if I went on prozac for a while I would notice a change. The prozac would keep my body level the same and I wouldn't notice it. I asked him why my body dipped at these certain times and he told me that although it knocks me for six and I can barely function it wasn't of major concern to him.
I came home and cried. one thing that my husband came up with was maybe there is alot of girls going in with the same things and to send everyone of them for these tests would cost to much money and time. My reply to that is if they send us for the tests we get the right help and time and money could be saved.
I don't know where to turn now, as I do not and will not be put on prozac for something that my body is doing of it's own accord, if there is something wrong it needs fixed so that it's right.
Is there a home testing for hormones as I would like to try doing it, to see what is lacking and find a way to give myself what I need. with out getting hooked on pills and messing me up more maybe.
Ginaxx
Hi ebayshopper,
Your GP does not appear to be the most sympathetic one!
You are entitled to a second opinion- is there a female GP at your surgery? She may be more understanding.
I am not sure how old you are but you can get tests now to establish whether you are menopausal. Vielle sell a kit similar to a pregnancy test which would help you establish if it is due to hormonal changes caused by perimenopause etc. www.vielle.info
I, personally, have had a lot of success in this area with Chinese herbs and Energy Healing.
Don't forget to be kind to yourself and try and have a daily treat to help you "de-stress"
Hi there
I'm a bit confused about how your doctor works on a Sunday... unless there's a problem with the timing on your post!
I agree - go to a female doctor and tell her about your daughter's diagnosis. I wonder if a letter from your daughter's specialist would help you get the tests you need?
What doctors often don't say is that if tests come back "normal" it means "within normal bounds" - and that may not be normal for YOU! Nine months is plenty time for your body to get worse.
Get yourself a second opinion from a (preferably) female doctor, and don't forget what I said about the starflower oil - it does work. It's very rare for anything to work straight away, though: with me the oil worked within a month. Oh and be kind to yourself too!
My doctor is just up the road he was at the charity thing I went to, so I had reason to call him and I had to go to get something off him. I metioned I felt bad again and he went into doctor mode told me I could pick it up and he would check me. He lives above his surgery. it was quicker to say appointment!
I think I will try the one lady doctor we have there, he's on hols now for 2 weeks so I think I could see get to see her I am aslo going to check the site you have given as I would like to see for myself if I could find out anything.
Today I feel back to normal I could take on the world again, everything has gone, even my hair is back to normal abit thinner but whatever it is has stopped, my tum at the botom feels slightly bloated. which has shocked me as last night I had to go out and I felt very shaky and not myself.
I read up a little on PCOS and in most cases there is period problems with pain but as you said this isn't always the case. one thing that I did read was brown blotch type skin here and there, I have that under my bust and abit on my neck.
I have had this before while on the mirena which I showed my doctor I thought it was getting out of hand because I used to swim each week and it started to become very noticable, it started going down each leg from the top on my both hips. I read up on that and thought I had found the correct thing, which was a problem with progestrone I think that went on it's own then.
Gina xx
I forgot to say how good it is to talk to people about this and them try to find out what is going on with you, while being in the throws of it you feel so on your own with how you feel and it how done wonders you girls coming back to me while coping with it.
Thankyou very much
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Hi everyone,
Just come across this site in an attempt to find info out, I will explain my problems and anyone who can offer me help, jump in anytime. I am sure other girls go through this at some points I can't be the only one!
I had a copper coil fitted 8 years back due to spotting, for the first year I suffered panics, and really heavy periods, towards the end of having this in I had 3 periods a month. so on the 5 year removal doc fitted a merina coil. He said it would mend all the problems.
That was fine for another six months, felt fantastic, then periods went. I was left having a spotting period once a month! great you may think but a whole load of other problems came with it.
Panics, tired, not intrested in anything, including sex, skin horrid, weight gain (4 dress sizes) pains in legs, hair loss, shaking, fuzzy head all the time. loads more but to cut it short, I became a total mess.
After the doc telling me this was not due to the coil I decided to get it out, after 2 years trying to "let it settle" as doc kept saying.
After another six months, I was so much better in myself; starting losing weight without trying, hair loss stopped, other problems improved. my periods are spot on 3 days every 26 days, normal flow. Then 9 months back all the improvement stopped I started getting a swollen throat at the front, it would swell and feel slightly sore for 2 days at most then go. I noticed this would happen every month so I went to doc who sent me for tyriod tests which came back clear, he then sent me to hoss for the cam down my throat which also was clear, that doc said it was down to hormones.
My doc has said there is nothing I can do for it just suffer like everyother female does! after another six months, the swelling stopped and I wasn't worried, I thought whatever it was had settled.
The last 3 months, 3 days before a period I feel uneasy, nervey and fuzzy headed. little bouts of panic come and go, and the day before bleeding I have trouble catching my breath, which is coming and going through the day and once or twice I feel I am going to pass out. I can tell when I am going to come on by it, without knowing when I am due. each month it seems to be more than the last building up on me, this month I have aslo got tension in my face and back. anyone who has this, knows this is a awful thing to go through.
my doctor doesn't seem intrested in helping he has said he can give me happy pills to take everyday, to level me out as I am dipping when due on/off. I can only take these for six months or so at a time, in six months I come off them and it will build up again and I go back on them! and then carry on doing it for maybe years.
I am fine the rest of the month I take a couple of days to get over the panic thing but then I can go out and do everything normally.
can anyone help me find out if there is anything else I can do to help with the week I am due on/off without going on these pills.
I feel totally stressed about it now and dreading next month incase its worse.Thankyou for any help
Gina
hi, im lalah (pronounced layla )
sorry to crash this thread but i dont know how to post as i am new to this,
just wanted some help i have had the iud coil fitted nov 17 2010 and now nearly three months on every time i have aperiod i have flu like syptoms and is really hot, pain ,back, neck, tummy and so on also my breasts hurt alot, i dont know why this is but it has become more than a pain to me as itis everytime, i have had tummy pain when i got to the toilet and has now started during sex, it doesnt seem to be settling down and i have been back and foruth to the doc and they just keep sending me away i have searched and searched the internt for answer but i cant seem to get any does anyone know what this is and y it happens every month plz help 🙁
thanks lay xxxxx