So I just met with my endocrinologist again today. I have always kind of had a small feeling that she is not very experienced, though I assumed she had the right knowledge since she specializes in PCOS and hirsutism. However, when I have asked her questions she sometimes gives strange answers, or answers that don't match up with any research I have done online (and I have done A LOT!) So today I met with her to talk about how my spironolactone and yasmin were working. This in itself I thought was kind of weird-- why did she want me to make an appt. within 5 weeks when it takes much longer for the drugs to work? But I went along with it.
Well, today, she told me that my hair is too fine, although it is NEW and EVERYWHERE, and that the spiro will do *ABSOLUTELY NOTHING* to the hair because it is not as coarse as a man's hair. She says it won't even stop new hair from growing. I said I didn't understand how that made any sense, since I am confirmed to have PCOS and high testosterone, and these problems started rapidly in the 6 months or so before I was diagnosed (which was in March.) She said it may just be genetics. I asked how it would be genetics if it was so sudden and rapid and coincided exactly with one of the symptoms of PCOS! She said she was stumped by it and "at the end of her expertise." My body hair is NATURALLY fine, my arm hair is fine, my normal body hair is just naturally a fine texture! But I have started to grow it EVERYWHERE and that is why I first went to see her. Now she is telling me it's not hormone related? Even though I have PCOS? And that even though the hair is new, dark, and progressing darker and longer and spreading to new areas, the spiro won't affect it in ANY WAY whatsoever? Yet she still wants me to keep taking it...
This seems to conflict with all the research I have done... yet she is an endocrinologist who supposedly specializes in this... but she is young and maybe has not been a doctor for long. I don't know where I would go to get a second opinion since this is the specialty center of the city!!! But do you think, from your experience and research, that she is wrong? Do I have any hope? Or will just get hairier and hairier and have to shave my whole body every day for the rest of my life?????
