Hello everyone.......
Despite my last horrid experieince at the RE, I saw a link for a Gyn in my area that deals with PCOS, mostly at a fertility level, and decided to go see them. I called first and asked if they treated women who are NOT infertile and dont have skipped periods and they said "YES". I went last week and saw a nurse, she took my history, copied my last lab results, from last fall, and wanted to get newer labs, and a few that were never taken, like total and free testosterone.
She just called and said my labs were "inconculsive", and I prob dont have PCOS. The Dr at the practice still wants to do a sonohystogram, to look for fibroids/polyps, and look at my ovaries. If I dont have PCOS, what else could it be with these symptoms:
insulin resistance, 2hr postprandial insulin= 85
hirsuite
overweight/inability to lose/maintain loses
fatigue
PMS
dark skin patches in groin,under breasts
acne
thinning hair
depression
FSH/
LH ratio is 3 to 1, 28 to 9
heavy mentrual periods, with pain
edema, pitting at times
I cant think of anything else right now, but I plan on picking up a copy of my new labs today before I go to work.
But, offhand, does anyone have any idea what else could cause me these symptoms, excluding PCOS??? Thyroid probs?
Just grabbed my results.....what do you all think???
Glucose (fasting) useless, i know....87
TSH 1.365 up from 1.252 in sept
total T4 7.7
free thyroxine index 2.7
testosterone 51 ng/dL
insulin (fasting) 11.2 up from 10.79 sept.
free testosterone 2.1 pg/mL
dhea-s 233 down from 272 in oct.
Are you any any sort of bcp's or any other meds? Certian meds can mess up test results.
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I remember when I first was told that I had pcos, I didn't have any cysts on my ovaries but they were larger than they should have been which is consistent for pcos. I was also told that pcos was more of a clinical diagnoisis then a true test diagnosis. But that was a few years ago and I know a lot more research has been done and since then I have more and more tests the even more confirm the pcos.
If not PCOS...WHAT THEN?????????? 
