New doctor! *Sigh*

sea_breeze · 07-11-2002, 04:35 PM

THis might turn into a bit if a rant, sorry... but I felt this was the most appropriate forum to post in.

Does any one else here feel that they get looked down on by their doctor for being too thin? Or have any of the doctors you have seen been reluctant to diagnose PCOS due to the fact that you are not overweight?

I saw a new doctor yesterday now that I am living in the USA to get a repeat prescription of the metformin I was prescribed in the UK. He asked me my weight and height and it was written all over his face. He seriously queried whether I should have metformin because I am underweight.

Grrr... it's not my fault, I have always been this size irrespective of what I do or eat. Just because I am skinny doesn't mean you can't take me and my PCOS seriously!!!

Kittycat · 08-19-2002, 12:24 AM

I went undiagnosed for 11 years because I was thin and didn't "look" like I had PCOS according to the doctors. There is alot of thin discrimination because it seems like all doctors think if you have a legitimate case of PCOS you will be overweight. I've heard recently that the thin women who have PCOS may actually have more severely resistant cases of PCOS. Find yourself a good doctor who knows what he is doing! They are few and far between. The ones I've seen in the past (Up until the one I am at now who specializes in PCOS and knows alot), I had to educate in what is most recently been discovered about PCOS. Most doctors know very little about the new breakthroughs in PCOS research.

Megan · 08-19-2002, 04:01 AM

Even in Australia, the thin thing seems to get in the way. But my Gyn is wonderful and didn't even contemplate my underweight status as a factor. I had recently been very ill and told him about it and he just said that he suspected PCOS. Then he told me about it being much less common in thin women, but still a threat, just the same. He has repeated the importance of trying really hard to gain some weight so that when I am PG, it won't be such hard work, but he never makes me feel guilty or anything. I'm about to start Clomid and he says there is a slim chance that this could put some weight on me without even trying. Fingers crossed! Other Drs I saw ruled out PCOS without an examination, just because I was thin. I think this Gyn is just wonderful!!

Jeanette · 09-01-2002, 11:32 PM

sorry dont have the problem of going untreated because i'm thin but I note you said new doctor. I am now going to rant about my new Doc. she is hopeless doesnt know what she's talking about We went for a visit and she tells me my medical history is incomplete then when we tell her no I dont have a history for this and my mum sais something about a Chem number I tell mum that she's thinking of dad then the doc sais what for I say Epilepsey she says had any seizures i say no and she has already asked if i have any neurological problems I ALREADY SAID NO