Hmmmmm... I am not sure I would trust an ER doc's expertise in PCOS. Stitching up a head laceration, yes. Treating PCOS, no.
I have never heard of Yasmin being bad for PCOS. Because of the anti-androgen effects of the progestin, it is actually thought to be one of the better ones for us. Some BCPs tend to worsen our "male" symptoms. Hair loss, etc...
Now... everything I have read points to the notion that the cysts we form with PCOS are NOT the same as the cysts that form, become very large, and require medical attention. Ours tend to remain small and not cause any outward issues, aside from the hormones they put out making us less and less feminine. I am wondering if that type of cyst might be the sort to benefit better from a higher dose pill? The older pills tended to be higher in estrogen content, ie 50 units. Then for a while most commonly used pills contained 35. Now there are lower dose pills with only 20. Yasmin has 30 so it's on the lower end of the typical BCP.
I'm grasping at straws here... but maybe that's what he meant. Maybe he was referring to ovarian cysts and not polycystic ovarian syndrome?
Check with your doctor. You might need a higher dose pill for your particular problem, but it's *not* because of the PCOS. Different women just respond differently to different pills. Some women fo great on low dose pills, I bleed all the time on them. I don't think it's because I have PCOS, I think it's just because that's the way I am.
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