beaglelady

I saw my gynae this week and both external & internal scans both did not show pcos yet an abdominal scan done two months ago showed pcos and another abdominal scan done last October did. Can the cysts come and go? He thinks my pain problems are down to pcos but because a locum gp put me on the mini pill in Feb which has stopped my cycle he has asked me to come off to get an accurate blood tests done.

Has anyone else had this?

Eva37

yes, i used to have loads of cysts. But when i had my last scan they had gone. I tried the mini pill a few years back (noriday) but couldnt get on with it. I didnt get a period at all, and my bp and weight still went up.
eva

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mizuza

as far as i am aware ( i could be wrong) cysts are one of the symtoms of pcos and not every women will get them or have them all the time, like other symtoms they can flare up and calm down.

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manzanita

As far as I know, the cysts are caused by larger amounts of FSH, so if somehow your FSH level decreased, then a cyst should at least shrink. That would certainly partly explain why not all women with PCOS have the cysts and IIRC, a lot of women don't actually have cysts.

Although the presence/absence of cysts is part of diagnosing PCOS, I don't think it should be the defining criteria because it places less importance on other aspects of PCOS, which some women may consider to be more important (ie. for me, the main importance in treating my PCOS is to get rid of hirsutism rather than achieve menstrual cycles) and if they are flaring up and calming, you could get a "false" reading of no PCOS.

Personally, I don't have the cysts yet have most other symptoms of PCOS as does a friend of mine in Scotland. On the other foot, a friend in Australia has a whopping great ovarian cyst and has minimal other PCOS symptoms.

Manzy