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| 271.1 | | LEZAH::BOBBITT | water, wind and stone | Fri Aug 03 1990 09:34 | 24 |
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You might want to think about cross-posting to the MEDICAL notesfile -
contact the moderators there if you wish to post anonymously there
also.
I have a friend with a hormonal conflict, slightly different from
yours. His body seems to have some sort of objection to its own
generally-higher-than-normal-level-of testosterone (i.e. he is
"allergic" to it to some degree) and in order to keep its reaction down
he takes small amounts of estrogen. The similarity is that he has
counterbalanced the high testosterone level with estrogen. I mean,
being on the pill worked, so maybe that is still an alternative, or if
it sustains the hormone level enough, the mini-pill (lower hormonal
dose than the regular pill) might work...of course, if you want to
conceive the endocrinologist may be able to tweak the quantity of
female hormone so that you still ovulate, but it doesn't act as a
contraceptive (as the pill did until recently).
Cortisone is a pretty serious drug - perhaps if it was a one-shot deal
it might be worth it, but ongoing use of cortisone carries its own
negative side-effects....
-Jody
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| 271.2 | Also, see PARENTING | NOVA::WASSERMAN | Deb Wasserman, DTN 264-1863 | Fri Aug 03 1990 10:04 | 5 |
| Also, there are LOADS of notes on fertility/infertility in
HELPME::PARENTING_V3 (also the older ones _V2 and _V1). Do a
dir/tit=fertil or dir/tit=pregnant and you'll find a lot.
Good luck.
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| 271.3 | | AV8OR::TATISTCHEFF | i look better in them | Fri Aug 03 1990 11:01 | 6 |
| one of my college friends had testosterone poisoning. the treatment at
the time was for her to go back on the pill. the excess hair has faded
and her breasts have returned, but i don't know what the final solution
to the testosterone was.
lee
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| 271.4 | Non-ovulator too... | OK4ME::PILOTTE | | Mon Aug 06 1990 11:58 | 21 |
| I too do not ovulate on my own. I did not know that it was the cause
of my irregular periods until I took my temperature every day for about
a year. The graphs were quite explicit about the non-ovulation, the
temperature was about the same all the way thru the month. I was on a
drug called Clomid, a fertility drug. I would take it for three months,
then I would go off for three months. The doctor told me that I could
have a difficult time becoming pregnant but until that time I would go
on having irregular periods. In other words I was fine medically. I
did not have a difficult time getting pregnant. I had a child in 1980.
After the birth, I went back to having irregular periods. I went on
the pill in 1986 and went off this past January. My periods were
regular for a couple of months, and now the time between them is
getting longer. I havent 'skipped' a month as I did before, but then
again my breasts havent decreased in size yet either (I went from a B
to a C cup while on the pill).
What is the reason for the medication? Just to make you 'regular'?? I
took medication only to find out the cause for my irregularity. After
that I did not take any more.
Hope this helps, Judy
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| 271.5 | too thin? | 57394::BARLOW | | Tue Aug 07 1990 13:21 | 13 |
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This may be totally off-base, but I know that ovulation stops if you
don't have a certain percentage of body fat. (I think its something
like 10%.) The reasoning behind this comes from evolution. I guess
your body figures it might go through a famine period and it wants to
make sure that you've got enough fat to live for some time without
proper amounts of food. (So if your body doesn't believe that the
chances are good to propagate your genes, it just wants to keep you
alive, in hopes that you'll gain weight.) Women runners and tennis
players often run into this problem.
Rachael
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| 271.7 | | DUGGAN::MAHONEY | | Wed Aug 08 1990 10:36 | 8 |
| Extrene thinness is cause of not ovulating... the body needs a minimum
of musscle to manufacture the amount of hormones that is needed to
trigger ovulation, when there is not enough musscle to provide the
minimum of hormones there is no ovulation. My daughter went through
that when she was 18, her doctor said that she was healthy, there was
nothing wrong with her, but she needed 15 MORE pounds to have a regular
period. He gave her no medicines, no treatment, only to gain weight.
She did, she is dead regular now and has been for the last 3 years.
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| 271.9 | Anorexia is unhealthy in general | CADSYS::HECTOR::RICHARDSON | | Wed Aug 08 1990 12:34 | 13 |
| My cousin (who is a year older than I am and is anorexic) had that
problem also. In fact, poor nutrition causes a lot of other problems
as well (I could learn to love not having a period, believe me!); she
has a fracture of the very top end of her thigh bone at the hip joint
(a running injury) which is not healing properly, apparently because her
nutritional reserves are so poor, and it is both painful and
potentially crippling (she may have to have an artificial hip
replacement - an operation that is seldom needed by someone my age).
Having too LITTLE body fat is a problem I am unlikely to develop
myself - I love food!
/Charlotte
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