marinewife12
04-20-2007, 05:08 PM
Has anyone been prescribed Progesterone to help start/stop a period? Did they make anyone else feel ill?
AF has been around for about 5 weeks. The Dr. gave me progesterone to stop it. But today is only my second day, and both days I have not felt myself. I don't know quite how to describe it...but I'm not. My stomach is upset. It might be a coincidence...but I don't feel like it is. It's not overwhelming by any means, and I'm fine taking the meds if it's what I need. But I'm just curious if it really IS my body reacting to the meds or if maybe I just ate something wrong.
And I don't know yet if I have PCOS...I have an ultrasound on May 9th. I guess that's how you technically tell?
I have another question as well. Is it that PCOS leads to weight gain, or the other way around? I can't tell...from my research sometimes it says different things. Such as "Heavier women are the ones who tend to be diagnosed with PCOS," which leads me to believe that being heavier can be a contributor to PCOS. But then I read "PCOS patients tend to have excessive weight gain," which is the opposite in that PCOS is the cause of the gain. I'm so confused!!!
Thanks for anything!
Kate
AF has been around for about 5 weeks. The Dr. gave me progesterone to stop it. But today is only my second day, and both days I have not felt myself. I don't know quite how to describe it...but I'm not. My stomach is upset. It might be a coincidence...but I don't feel like it is. It's not overwhelming by any means, and I'm fine taking the meds if it's what I need. But I'm just curious if it really IS my body reacting to the meds or if maybe I just ate something wrong.
And I don't know yet if I have PCOS...I have an ultrasound on May 9th. I guess that's how you technically tell?
I have another question as well. Is it that PCOS leads to weight gain, or the other way around? I can't tell...from my research sometimes it says different things. Such as "Heavier women are the ones who tend to be diagnosed with PCOS," which leads me to believe that being heavier can be a contributor to PCOS. But then I read "PCOS patients tend to have excessive weight gain," which is the opposite in that PCOS is the cause of the gain. I'm so confused!!!
Thanks for anything!
Kate
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bananarama
04-21-2007, 11:57 AM
Hi! I was put on Provera for about a year and a half, and I didn't feel good at all while I was on it, but I was on it because i had had a heavy period that lasted 6 months, and the doctor wanted it to stop (and I did too!!). I couldn't take birth control pills because I have a strong risk of having a stroke (at 20 y/o??). After the period stopped, it just never wanted to come back, adn the lining in my uterus got extremely thick, so he had me use it every month, if I could not start my period naturally. I changed GYNs, and they put my on the NuvaRing birth control, because of hte low levels of estorgen, and at first I felt horrible, but after 2-3 months I finally felt like myself again, and no longer was moody. I don't know if stomach problems were associated with it at first or not, because I found out recently that my gallbladder was bad, and so I just had it removed. Anyways, the NuvaRing seems to be working much better for me in terms of feeling better than the Provera (medroxyprogestrone). I have PCOS, and was diagnosed with it in 2005. It has been almost exactly 2 years since that horrible period first started. Now I am pretty much regular, with the ring. Has your GYN mentioned birth control possibilities?
I hope that things work out for you, and that you start to feel better!!
I hope that things work out for you, and that you start to feel better!!
marinewife12
04-21-2007, 08:04 PM
He did say that birth control would make things better if I wanted, but my husband and I are trying to conceive. So birth control wouldn't be an option.
Thanks for the info banana. Does anyone else have an experience to share?
Kate
Thanks for the info banana. Does anyone else have an experience to share?
Kate
bananarama
04-22-2007, 09:54 AM
Good luck! :)

