Not diagnosed yet,please help!!

Newgirl23 · 02-23-2004, 01:51 AM

Hello, i am glad for sites like this!!

i was wondering if you guys can help me out.
anyway, i have read some of the other posts, and i dont have any of the "normal" symptoms of PCOS.
I am normal weight (i am really thin), since i started my menses at age 11 its always been irregular so it didnt phase me when i missed a few here or there. but 7 mos. ago i skipped and had not had a period since. however, i took and herbal pill and i received my period the next day.this was last month. this month i have not received my period (i did not take the herbal pill because i wanted to see the gyno first). also for the past month i have had a werid swelling in my throat on the left side(like when you get choked up when you cry), but the gyno said it was nothing. i know that this is not normal for me. but no one can give me any straight answers!

i visited my doctor this month and anyway, i am 23 years old and my doc. told me i may have PCOS, however, from the ultrasound she said i have a few cysts on my ovaries, but that its normal in women to have cysts and that i may not have PCOS......i may not be a doctor, but this dosent sound right??

I also have always had acne, since i started puberty and all of my bloodwork came out normal. do you think it could indeed be PCOS?? Please help, i feel so frustrated that no one understands what PCOS is around me, so they cant seem to help. sorry if i am rambling

moonshadow · 02-23-2004, 10:34 AM

hi, and welcome.

one of the problems with pcos is that while there are some normal symptoms, women don't always have all of them. i don't have much excess hair (like two or three, really), i'm not very overweight (i could stand to lose about 10 lbs, but i'm not really worried about it), so far as i know, i don't have the 'string of pearls' ovaries. i do have technical amenorreah (one or two afs a year, and i don't ovulate), and my bloodwork showed elevated testosterone.

however, if you don't have any syptoms, aside from irregularity, it is worth looking at other possible causes (this is worth doing anyway, i think). don't give up on the idea of pcos, but don't limit yourself to it.

as well as having pcos, i have hypothyroidism. from what you have written, i would recommend you get your thyroid function checked out. a good friend of mine was diagnosed with hyperthoyroidism. this is also known as graves disease. symptoms of this can include being underweight, slightly bulging eyes (you didn't mention this, but i do know of this as a symptom, so i'm listing it), having irregular or missed periods, um... there's a great book called 'the thyroid sourcebook' that can give you more info than this.

the swelling on the side of your throat could have been a swollen gland. if it was your thyroid, it would have been closer to the center of your throat. if it has gone away, it's probably okay, but if not, get it checked out by a throat doctor (or a general doctor), not a gyno.

i hope you get everything sorted out soon. i hope you don't have pcos (i always hope that i don't have pcos, but that isn't likely to change anytime soon), but if you do, you are very welcome here, as you are very welcome here until you find out what is going on.

hannah

Newgirl23 · 02-29-2004, 06:54 PM

here are my lab results: fsh: 72, prolactin: 86, tsh: 60...i have no idea what any of this means, but my doc said it was normal. what do you think? please help.

moonshadow · 03-01-2004, 03:28 PM

i'm no good with lab numbers...

anyone else?

is your doctor doing anything to help regulate af (your period)?

hannah