I just talked to my gyn about bcp's making IR worse, and he claims that they actually make it better, just wondering, since this was an old artice, if there is anything resent to back up his claim that it makes IR better. Thanks for any help!
Ask your doctor to produce that information (He has to have to have gotten it from somewhere...)
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It looks to be from the Letters pages of an Endo journal, but I'm reticent to present it to my doctor without a complete reference, in the fear she'll reject it.
I've googled for Tomas Silber and PCOS, but nothing is coming up. I don't currently have journal access (left college a while ago and I'm not back in yet).
It looks to be from the Letters pages of an Endo journal, but I'm reticent to present it to my doctor without a complete reference, in the fear she'll reject it.
I've googled for Tomas Silber and PCOS, but nothing is coming up. I don't currently have journal access (left college a while ago and I'm not back in yet).
I am not sure i agree with this article...how come then that the birth control pill and 10 antiandrogne pill a month are enought to supress my insulin resistance and AN????
i guess it must have an impact on my insulin in one way or another otherwise i would still have AN...no????
Is there a treatment that doesn't involve either BCPs or Insulin treatments? I can't use BCPs due to the fact that I at one point used them for 6 years and well I had chest pains, my migraines actually were clearing up, but when I did get them they were killer. I'm at a normal weight, I eat right and had my glucose tested before and it was normal. Won't reducing my insulin be bad for me if I don't need it?
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Is there a treatment that doesn't involve either BCPs or Insulin treatments? I can't use BCPs due to the fact that I at one point used them for 6 years and well I had chest pains, my migraines actually were clearing up, but when I did get them they were killer. I'm at a normal weight, I eat right and had my glucose tested before and it was normal. Won't reducing my insulin be bad for me if I don't need it?
You stated that you had your glucose tested and it was normal, but have you had your insulin tested? They are two competely different things. My glucose always runs great, but then my insulin is in the high 20's.
i was put on BCP, mercilon, to control my periods at the age of about 12 or 13 and have been on it almost constantly ever since (20 years). now i find out that, apart from exacerbating my zinc deficiency by pumping me full of copper, this may actually have CAUSED my IR and maybe even my PCOS.
how the hell am i ever supposed to get well if every step forwards makes me iller in the long term?
i can't possibly come off it. my life is a debilitating hell of flooding without and i'm unable to function or leave the house for 10 days in every 30.
i now have no idea what to do or what to ask and am feeling very distressed and overwhelmed. i thought the mercilon was the only good thing in my life. now i find out it could be the source of most, if not all, of my problems.
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I've read several new studies and they say that the new low dose oral contraceptives have no significant effect on glucose metabolism, so even diabetics shouldn't worry about taking them... I don't really know what to believe anymore (??)
I am also confused about whether taking low dose BCP is good or not? I have been on low dose of Microgestine for the past 4 yrs. BCP is the only thing that helped with my periods.
I just talked to my gyn about bcp's making IR worse, and he claims that they actually make it better, just wondering, since this was an old artice, if there is anything resent to back up his claim that it makes IR better. Thanks for any help!
That's sort of what my endo had said to me. He basically said that recent studies had actually shown that BCPs have little affect on IR and that there is little long term research on it and that I should not be concerned, that my focus would be to eat right and exercise, with that my IR would hopefully become better. It was a little while ago now since I saw him though, I should have asked him about the research source, he was also a lecturer at a university so I guess his info is sorta up to date? Who knows. lol!
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i think for PCOS women, is not a good idea to use BCPs. if there is diabetis in family history, then be careful on going on BCP cuz it can trigger pcos, and if u have pcos then dont go on BCPs cuz pcos it self is a hormonal problem, and pills play with hormones, so it is a big no no for BCPs for treatement of PCOS.
i think doctors just want easy way out so they think that Bcps r great!
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Thanks for posting this! When I was diagnosed, my doctor automatically put me on BCPs, and never even mentioned that other treatment options existed. Its nice to learn that there are other options out there!
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Thanks for posting this! When I was diagnosed, my doctor automatically put me on BCPs, and never even mentioned that other treatment options existed. Its nice to learn that there are other options out there!
Same thing for me. I was diagnosed so my doctor put me on BCP. Nothing else, just BCP.
Like what the hell? I have BCP. But the only thing I am thankful for them is that it cleared up my painful acne, stopped the un-necessary hair growth and regulated my period.
But truthfully, I would love nothing more than to NOT be on BCP cause I personally beleive it's not healthy to be on something just to regulate hormones and stuff.
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