I am seeing my endo next week and was wondering what bloodwork I should request, since she won't order any w/o being proded. I started on met in July and the only test she did was a 24 hr urine cortisol (which came back on the high side of normal), and fasting glucose (104). No kidney function, no free androgens/testosterone..
What should I need??
Thanks in advance.
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What are you seeing them for? It looks like you were diagnosed already. Have you ever had FSH, LH, free testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, ALT, cholesterol, fasting insulin, etc? If not I think those would be recommended.
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What are you seeing them for? It looks like you were diagnosed already. Have you ever had FSH, LH, free testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, ALT, cholesterol, fasting insulin, etc? If not I think those would be recommended.
I have already been diagnosed on the bases of a history of cysts, massive weight gain, and no periods, but none of those tests were ever done, so I was wondering if they should be. I was diagnosed, put on met, and THEN had the cortisol and glucose tested.
I asked the dr how she'd know if the met was working.
She said by the blood work.
Since there was no bloodwork taken before I started, there is no baseline, so how in the heck will they know? What will they compare??
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It looks like they did a fasting glucose for you and it should go down quite a bit after being on met. I do think that you should have the other tests done though because there are different manifestations of PCOS and different ways to treat it, especially if you are TTC.
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Bloodwork? 
