I was a 36-26-36 woman with flawless skin and lustrous hair. After PCOS had it's way with me I developed a thick neck, terrible cystic acne, excessive hirstutism, dark patches on the back of my neck and in my groin, and skin tags. What is especially frustrating is that from having diabetes since childhood, I always managed my diet and weight carefully. It's disheartning when discipline and exerscise do not produce a visible result. I have thyroid issues now, which opened up a whole new can of worms. BCP (Yasmin), Metformin, and Aldactane helped with some of the issues. Acne is not a problem, skin tags are less frequent, and the athrancans nigerias or dark patches are much lighter. Hirstutism, weight in the middle, and excessive muscularity still are. |