Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
One of the most common hormonal disorders found among women of fertile age is the polycystic ovary syndrome. This is an endocrine disorder and if it is not diagnosed in time it can lead to severe complications like diabetes, ovary torsion and even infertility.
Polycystic ovary syndrome may not be easy detectable, but if you observe some of the following symptoms you should schedule a medical examination in order to make sure everything is ok:
* Pay attention to your menstruation: does it come regularly or irregularly? Most often irregular, few and even absent menstruation can be a sing of polycystic ovary syndrome.
* As androgenic hormones are increased in this affection, you might want to look for excessive body hair growth (also known as hirsutism) on your face, legs and abdomen. Even though hair seems to grow a lot on these areas, it also seems to be falling too much from the scalp, or the hair on the top of the head seems to be fragile and thin. Also, androgens can make a change into your voice, making it deeper and more masculine.
* Skin problems are also encountered in polycystic ovary syndrome. If you suffer from acne that does not seem respond well to antibiotics and to any topic lotions and creams, it might all be of a hormonal cause. Oily skin and seborrhea are also included here.
* Another thing to look for is your body weight. Have you gained a lot of weight during the last few months and you just can’t explain how this was possible? Well, the answer could be polycystic ovary syndrome.
* If you also know (from lab tests that you might have taken previously in a hospital) that you have insulin resistance and an increased level of insulin in your blood you could have POS.
The easiest way to find out if everything is ok with your ovaries would be taking a pelvic ultrasound exam, which can be performed by a gynecologist in 5 minutes. Also a blood exam measuring the level of androgens is useful too for excluding any doubts.
Polycystic ovary syndrome is treated most often with hormonal therapy (birth control pills) and drugs that lower the level of insulin (this only for the cases that present pre-diabetes or diabetes). Unfortunately there is no cure for POS; there exist only symptomatic treatments at this time. If hormonal therapy might solve the acne and body hair growth, for the fertility problems there is no specific treatment. Some women with polycystic ovary syndrome ovulate from time to time while others do not ovulate at all. In this last case the chance of having a baby can be increased by a specialist in fertility treatments.
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