Category Archives: PCOS
PCOS Update
Good news all-round this time. Firstly, this has been the first winter since starting my new wave of treatment that I have actually lost weight. This puts me at 5kg away from my target weight, which is still slightly classed … Continue reading
Guest Blog Post: Verity PCOS
I finally had a chance to do a write-up following my invitation to the Savoy Hotel for an Atkins-run dinner. Head over to the Verity blog to find out how the diet has changed, and how it can be beneficial … Continue reading
Vitamin D
Another winter, and another Vitamin D injection appointment. Women with PCOS can have low vitamin D levels, which often contributes to, or aggravates, a lot of the symptoms. This diagram illustrates Vitamin D’s effect on the endocrine system (click here … Continue reading
Portfolio: Clomid article for In Touch Magazine
Last Summer I was asked to write an article for Verity PCOS’s In Touch Magazine – a publication distributed amongst its members. Working with Editor Colette Harris and a number of fertility experts across the UK, I provided a double … Continue reading
Three Things: PCOS
London Endocrinology Clinic article on PCOS Clinical and scientific interest in polycystic ovary syndrome may have increased over the past 15 years but there still needs to be greater awareness by the medical community to be able to diagnose and … Continue reading
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PCOS update
As longer-term readers of this blog may have gleaned, things have changed quite a lot since my last update. An apparent shortage of Flutamide means that I have been switched to Finasteride in the interim which – apart from several … Continue reading
Three Things: PCOS in the news
Prediabetes: the hidden health timebomb “Women who have polycystic ovarian syndrome and are overweight have a higher chance of developing prediabetes, as do those who have had gestational diabetes. Anyone with severe mental health problems also carries an elevated risk” … Continue reading
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PCOS Interview on BBC Radio Shropshire
Rachel from Verity, and a reproductive endocrinologist from Imperial College were on BBC Radio Shropshire this morning talking about PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome. Listen to it here.
National Flutamide Shortage?
The pharmaceutical company that makes Flutamide (which according to the it’s-online-so-it-must-be-right source netdoctor is Schering Plough) has decided it can’t be fucked to make any more until January. So my hair is falling out again. Oh yeah, and a few … Continue reading
Drug Shortage update: Our drugs are being sold overseas
Further to this post, the BBC, Sky News, and ITN have all recently reported (via internet and broadcast media) that there is a national UK shortage of 55 drugs – including medicines for asthma, blood clots, and cancer – due … Continue reading →
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