insulin resistance

contraception — 16 things I got wrong before I got it right. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. Perimenopause and all of this at…

Six-word version is the title — 24 weeks on 12.5mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring — and the rest is context. Hard numbers: 24 weeks and 12.5mg. Anything softer…

60 weeks on 1.0mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring. Posting the boring middle of the process, because the internet is full of the start and the end and nothing…

The title is the whole question — hair shedding — is it the drug or the deficit — but here is why I am asking. Anything involving pregnancy, contraception efficacy or…

help me understand cycle, I have read the wiki twice. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post. Went looking for trial data on the…

Something I keep coming back to: reading fertility threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. Brought the cycle-annotated log to an appointment and it changed the…

Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: cycle got longer by six days. anyone else. Brought the cycle-annotated log to an appointment and it changed the…

Reporting in. 15 months in and insulin resistance is still the thing I get wrong. 15 months. Those are measured, not estimated, and not rounded up in my favour. Brought…

Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: someone explain insulin resistance to me like I have not read a paper in years. Trial populations…

Genuine question, and the title is the question: can we stop arguing about fertility until somebody posts a number. Questions about oral contraceptive absorption and…

the trials under-powered every question in this community — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested. Trial populations for the major programmes were…

does PCOS actually matter or is it forum lore at this point. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post. Hormonal variation across…

stalled for 15 weeks at 2.5mg and I refuse to panic this time. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. The numbers the title promised,…

tried insulin resistance for 13 weeks. here is what happened, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. Since the title puts numbers in the shop…

contraception — 11 things I got wrong before I got it right. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. Started logging the cycle in the…

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.…

Here it is: 35 weeks on 2.4mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring. One person, one log, no control group, so read it accordingly. Hard numbers: 35 weeks and 2.4mg.…

Question in the title, detail here: how do you actually verify cycle. Insulin resistance is a common feature in PCOS, which is why the metabolic conversation overlaps…

insulin resistance, cycles, and the thing that finally worked. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. Perimenopause and all of this at…

Thinking out loud about this: trying to conceive? that is a clinician conversation, not a forum one. Telogen shedding follows a period of significant weight change…

fertility: what the trials say vs what this community says. I have gone back and forth on this for months. Fertility can change with weight loss and improved insulin…

the cycle rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. This affects how posts get sorted and removed, so it belongs in the open. Started logging the cycle…

17 months in and PCOS is still the thing I get wrong. Numbers below. Ask me the boring questions, they are the useful ones. Figures up front so nobody has to dig: 17…

perimenopause — my 15-week log, condensed into one table. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments. Questions about oral contraceptive…

PCOS, insulin resistance, the whole standard package. Eight months in. Weight came down slowly — about 9kg, unremarkable. What surprised me was that free testosterone…