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Saturday, November 18, 2006
We found out what's wrong.And it's not anything I thought it was, or anything any of you thought. Not PCOS, not fibroids, not cancer, not pregnancy, not thyroid.
Here is what's wrong with me:
1. My pituitary gland produces too much prolactin.
2. I also have too much of the other male hormone. (DHEA? Forgot the name already.)
3. My insulin resistance is borderline.
4. I need more Vitamin D.
Those last two aren't what's causing the double periods. But he told me about them, anyway, just so I'd know.
Besides that, I'm completely healthy. Even my cholestorol is good.
He gave me little tiny pills to slow down the prolactin. He said that'll most likely bring the DHEA down, too. If not, though, they'll give me something extra for that.
I am ovulating, after all. Twice a month, I guess.
No wonder I'm always tired and bitchy, then. But still. I'm glad we went through all the tests. Hopefully the tiny pills will work. I should find out in the next four weeks if they do.
In the meantime, I'm going to buy a sun lamp.
Labels: health
4:57 PM #Comments:
WHEW. That sounds like something you can work with. I'm just so relieved for you, that you finally have an idea about it. Not knowing is the worst.# posted by
Marigoldie : 8:26 AM
I know! Dude - I was so relieved after the visit, it made me giddy. Not knowing *is* the worst.
Not knowing always equates cancer, in my mind.
# posted by
Gwen : 2:45 PM
Would the lack of vitamin D clear up after you quit having two periods a month?
# posted by
vegontherun : 4:06 PM
Veg: I don't know. He didn't say. Do you think it would?
Does soy milk have Vitamin D? Does heavy cream?
# posted by
Gwen : 7:05 PM
I'm just guessing maybe you're losing more iron and stuff with bi-monthly periods. But I'm not a medical professional. And I'm too lazy to look it up on WebMD.
# posted by
vegontherun : 7:53 PM
I get you.
I'm gonna look up the prolactin thing sometime soon, because I don't really believe that people's bodies just have imbalances for no reason. I'll take the medicine for now, but I'd really rather find out what the hell the issue is, then do whatever it takes to fix it on my own.
# posted by
Gwen : 10:44 AM
Hi Gwen - Yep, you can buy soy milk fortified with vitamin D. From this FDA page, "Other sources of naturally occurring vitamin D are foods such as butter, buttermilk, cheese, cream, eggs, fish, goat milk, meat fats and organ meats, and mushrooms." Meat fats and organ meats sure don't sound very appetizing described that way, but good luck! Glad it's not something dire.
# posted by
Amy : 2:36 PM
Hi Gwen,
I think the lacking in vitmen D thing is the current flavor of the month with the doctors.
My 81 year old uncle and my 44 sister who had leukemia both were told they needed vitmen D.
Janice~
# posted by
Janice : 7:50 PM
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