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My Doctor Thinks I have PCOS, But I Dont Think I Do.

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I am a 20 year old female, 60 pounds overweight, and I have anxiety/depression. I started taking Mirtazipine (an anti-depressant/sedative) for my anxiety and the insomnia my anxiety would create. When I began taking Mirtazipine (1.5-2 years ago) is when my period began to become irregular, at first it was every 2 months, then every 4 months, and recently it was 7 months. He put me on birth control but the side effects were too much so I stopped taking it. After I stopped taking it I got my period. But it didnt feel like how my periods used to, it was painful for 2-3 days, with light to medium flow, etc, which I chalked it up to the hormonal imbalance caused by the birth control. Anyways, its obvious that my period stopped being regular because of the Mirtazipine, nothing else happened other than my changing my medications. And I have googled that Mirtazipine can in fact mess up your period etc. Reasons why I do not believe I have it : 1. I dont have hair growing on my neck, chin, or upper lip or anywhere where a man would usually grow their hair.  Now, I am pretty hairy , but thats because I am half Italian and half Colombian, and both of those do have pretty hairy people , and even on my moms and dads sides the women are pretty hairy, so I would think its not unusual for me to be the same. 

2. I never had irregular or very painful periods. The only time in my life where my period became irregular was when I began taking Mirtazipine. 

3. They gave me a blood test and none of it came back too abnormally. I do have slightly elevated liver enzymes, which again, and I have googled it, that would be caused by Mirtazipine. Or it could be caused by me being overweight by 60 pounds.

4. I dont have insulin resistance, mine was completely healthy and normal.

5. My hair is not thinning, nor am I balding.

6. I did have acne problems as a teen but thats not uncommon, although it was cystic acne which is the least common type of acne, however that cleared up and I no longer have any acne problems of any kind, except for scarring on my face.

7. I dont really have any mood swings, and I have always had anxiety , even as a child.

8. No pelvic pain of any kind, maybe slightly during periods but other than that not really.

9. I dont get headaches.

10. I do have sleep problems, but I have always had sleep problems, even before puberty, because of my anxiety.

11. I did gain 60 pounds, but that was over the course of 2-3 years, and I believe its from inactivity and poor diet. 

12. I am not really fatigued, I may get tired from time to time, which may be caused by my anxiety insomnia. 

Tomorrow I have a OBGYN appointment to check for cysts or other symptoms, if I come back with no cysts then I will choose to believe I do not have it. Now, I did research and learned that even if you do have cysts on your ovaries that it doesnt mean you have PCOS, and not having cysts means you do not have it. I would like to take a blood test to look for a higher than normal level of androgens in my blood , and to see if there are any definitive testing they can do to see if I do, only then would I believe I have it.

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  • jade53553
    jade53553 HailStar

    Posted

    Hi

    I've been diagnosed with PCOS. I had SLIGHTLY elevated Testosterone levels in my blood and cysts on my ovaries. BUT I don't have ANY of the regular symptoms, other than spots which arnt even bad enough to be classed as Acne. So just because you dont tick all the symptoms doesnt mean you dont have PCOS, its much more common than you think and many women have it without knowing or ever experiencing fertility issues. You seem to have quite a few symptoms maybe getting the diagnosis will help your doctors treat those symptoms appropriately. Weight gain is known to deteriorate mental health and increase the other symptoms of PCOS.

    Hope you get everything under control x 

    • HailStar
      HailStar jade53553

      Posted

      They did all the possible tests and everything is normal. I still dont think I have PCOS. My weight gain is because I have been leading a very sedentary lifestyle for the past 4 years, and kept eating a lot, plus being on different anti-depressants that are known to cause weight gain. My period began being irregular as soon as I started taking the most recent one. On top of gaining more weight.
    • HailStar
      HailStar jade53553

      Posted

      On top of that, PCOS is far too broad and I cant see how PCOS can even be a thing because of all the different symptoms etc. On top of that, it appears that PCOS is relatively new and no one can really say what causes it, who might get it, and what it even is. And because the symptoms are broad, then yeah it would be more common, because there a million different symptoms, symptoms of which could be confused with other things other than PCOS. There is  hairy women who dont have it because of what their ethnicities are, weight gain can be from just not being healthy, anxiety and depression can be from environmental factors, genes, or a chemical imbalance of the brain etc. Personally, I think my doctor is an idiot, because he cant seem to remember some of the things he has said. Like when I went in for the irregular periods, lack of periods, my doctor told me its most likely from the mirtazipine, but when I made a follow up appointment a few months later its like he completely forgot he said that and goes and says, oh , it cant cause that. Or when I told him im allergic to Prozac, and he said that it would be risky to take any of the medicines in the same family of prozac, but then 7 months later, I go in and he gives me lexapro, which is in the same family, like?????
    • HailStar
      HailStar jade53553

      Posted

      If I barely have any of the ovious symptoms have PCOS, or the less obvious ones, then how can I have PCOS? It just doesnt make sense to me. My weight wasnt too good, but not its worse, and my cycle and periods were fine, up until I began taking this medication, so how is it not possible that its the medicine, its so unbelievably obvious its the medicine. And my obgyn doesnt think I have it, just my idiotic GP.
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