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Originally Posted by purplerose  I personally wouldn't recommend taking a statin unless you really need it for high lipids. |
There are currently no FDA approved medications for the treatment of PCOS. All meds that are currently Rx'd are FDA approved for other conditions: spiro - high blood pressure, flutamide - prostate cancer, metformin - diabetes. It's all 'off label use', and the same would go for the use of a statin. Any 'recommendations' should ultimately come from a patient's personal physician.
BTW, while I'm not advocating statins, this is worth noting, from the article:
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Furthermore, simvastatin (as compared with OCP) decreased total cholesterol by 12%, LDL cholesterol by 21%, and triglycerides by 18%-preventing the OCP-induced rise in triglycerides.
"So the statin not only normalized androgens, it also normalized hypothalamic-pituitary function. And of course, the statin improved lipid profiles," Dr. Duleba said.
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