[PCOS] my androgens moved before my weight did
my androgens moved before my weight did. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down.
Started logging the cycle in the same sheet as the dose. Three months later the pattern was obvious and it had been invisible before.
The same dose genuinely feels different at different points in the month for me. Took a year to notice and it was in the log the whole time.
Fertility changed faster than I expected with the weight loss. Nobody had raised it and I wish somebody had.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Questions about oral contraceptive absorption and gastric emptying are legitimate pharmacology questions with product-specific answers. A pharmacist can answer them properly; a board cannot.
Have you asked a pharmacist about the absorption question specifically?
Cosigning on fertility changing with weight loss. It catches people who were not expecting it at all.
Anything involving pregnancy, contraception efficacy or fertility planning belongs with a clinician. That is not a disclaimer, it is where the answers actually are.
nothing on this board is a substitute for someone who knows your history
Small fix — insulin resistance is a feature commonly seen in PCOS, not a synonym for it.
Push back: PCOS as a diagnosis and insulin resistance as a finding are not interchangeable, and the thread is using them as one.
Push back: PCOS as a diagnosis and insulin resistance as a finding are not interchangeable, and the thread is using them as one.
viktor_laurent is right that a diagnosis and a finding are different things here.
cycle timing changes how the same week feels
Perimenopause and all of this at once, and there is essentially nothing written about the combination anywhere.
Correction: that trial did not enrol the population being discussed, so it cannot support the claim.
Not convinced by the attribution. That pattern tracks the cycle in your own log more closely than it tracks the dose.
Is this a PCOS diagnosis or an insulin resistance finding?
That trial did not enrol the population you are asking about, so it cannot answer this.
Brought the cycle-annotated log to an appointment and it changed the conversation completely.
Where in the cycle does this fall, if you are tracking it?
symptom patterns can track the cycle rather than the dose
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