Kristin S.

Hi everyone,

I have a question about the new China restrictions, specifically the medical portion. Am I going to be denied because I have PCOS and take a diabetic drug?? I know they've turned down people who take zoloft, have cancer, etc. but I'm not sure how they view pcos/metformin. We fit all their other requirements, this is the only one I'm worried about.

TIA for your help!
Kristin

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Calantha

We adopted under the old rules, but I was worried about the same thing. I don't know how much good it actually did, but I had my endo write me a letter explaining what PCOS is and that I was taking the meds (actos and spiro in my case) to control the symptoms of PCOS, not because I had diabetes or high blood pressure. He included statistics about PCOS like that it affects women of all walks of life, etc. He had that notarized and I authenticated it with the rest of our dossier documents and sent it along with everything else. I don't know if the letter made the difference or not, but no one ever mentioned my meds or PCOS.

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~Traci~

PCOS wasn't even mentioned in our paperwork at all. Granted, we got in under the old rules... Do the new rules say specifically that you can't have diabetes? I thought it was cancer & basically anything life-threatening. I haven't looked @ the new rules in detail b/c I knew we didn't meet them for another adoption (pretty sad since we were "good enough" the 1st time!).

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Kristin S.

Well, this came directly from CCAA's website:

¢ó. Both the husband and wife are fully healthy physically and mentally, and do not have the following conditions:

1. AIDS;
2. mental handicap;
3. infectious disease within infective stage;
4. binocular blind or binocular parallax or monocular blind and with no ocular prosthesis;
5. binaural hearing loss or language function loss; adoption of special needs children who have identical conditions will be exempt from this limitation;
6. afunction or dysfunction of limbs or trunk caused by impairment, incompleteness, numbness or deformation; severe facial deformation;
7. severe diseases which requires long term treatment and which affect life expectancy, like malignant tumor, lupus erythematosus, nephrosis, epilepsy, and etc.;
8. post-surgery of major organs transplantation, not yet 10 years;
9. schizophrenia;
10. medication for severe mental disorders, like depression, mania, or anxiety neurosis, and etc, stopped not more than 2 years;
11. BMI (BMI=weight (kg)/ height2 (m2) )¡Ý 40.

It seems like #7 would include diabetes, do you think? I'm worried about putting metformin on my medical form, even though I don't have diabetes. I mean its not like I have to take metformin to survive. Ugh, this is frustrating.

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