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I live in Wisconsin. Some meals are nothing BUT dairy :smiley:

I've been on spiro for about 2 years and it definitely helped. I had some side effects (namely extreme breast tenderness and probably some others I can't remember anymore) but they completely and quite suddenly switched off maybe 4 to 6 months after I started. I stuck with it for those months because of folks in this forum…

Sure thing! PCOS, no thyroid (due to cancer), and one mostly successful pregnancy (premature, but healthy).

My first stop is always ThinkGeek.

:smiley: Greetings from Dane and Washington Counties! Too hot and sick to do much myself, or stay on track (I should be low carb, but colds love carbs). Hope you're having a fun summer!

If they changed your med dose, then they should have requested a blood test after 6 weeks. Make sure that happens and then they can adjust it again if your TSH isn't where you need it to be. I also recommend logging to check for mission creep. The only other thing I can recommend is be patient with yourself. We're playing…

^^ ditto. There is nothing crazy about honestly describing symptoms. And if they dismiss you, try another doctor. PS - i had four periods a year in my 20s and they completely stopped by my 30s. Glad you're looking into it now and not waiting.

How's your energy? And are you still logging?

On it! The Spiro is completely dehydrating and I've been painfully aware of JUST how dehydrating every time I need to get a blood draw and it fails. I'm amazed that I went from wanting to die to perfectly fine by just not having my glass of milk with dinner. We'll see what happens when I stop cutting the pill in half :)

I'm in the same boat - Not insulin resistant, three years into active treatment for the PCOS but I was never prescribed Metformin until last week. I have been taking Spironolactone for two years and worked very well for a long while. I also started eating "lowish" carb, which also worked well....until they didn't and I…

Same here! Except mine is a sedentary board gaming vacation. :smile: Let's do it!

Ooo I didn't know there was a gamers group. Video or table top?

(introvert squeaks)

I'm here. I'm not a biker/runner but I walk and I have some weight loss and healthy eating goals. I'd do something there.

I'm not full-on low carb. I don't have a great device to track things that specifically, so for me it's all relative. I treat my food intake like I do my finances. I see things I like and I think "nah, I don't need it". And then after skipping five or six purchases/sandwiches, I have one. It's the kind of half-assed will…

Update? That's an extremely low dosage of levo and I've never heard of lioth so my guess is it was a virus/infection. Please let us know how it turned out for folks who come upon the thread looking for answers. Hope you're feeling better!

Me too. I JUST finished my course of Cipro for bronchitis and it was my only option since I'm allergic to everything else. It worked fine for me. Something to talk to the doctor about should it ever happen again, I suppose.

Sure! Though I have PCOS, so my losses will at a much lower percentage than a normal person. But it'll be nice to be forced to check in.

There is a very active group of us over at http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/3070-p-c-o-sis Lots of support and success stories. I'm doing very well by reducing carbs and increasing protein. I can't say I'm low carb, I'm low-ish. I'm also on Spirolacetone which is a med that is helping to alleviate some of the…

I'm here too. Part of my problem is I haven't learned the new format for the forums, so I don't always catch activity. But I'm here.

Radiation will kill all of it. You go on a low iodine diet for several weeks, starving your body of iodine. Then your thyroid takes up the radioactive iodine and dies. Surgery is easy, but like you said, has complications. I needed both (twice!) because of cancer and had absolutely no trouble either time. The scar is very…

Hi! That diet is the worst. I've done it twice. I wish I had discovered Pinterest the first time, there are a ton of great recipes there. Keep us updated and I'll send a friend request if you're interested.

Yay for table top gamers. Maybe we should start a new thread, or is everyone over at boardgamegeek?

Oh no, you absolutely need to rest. It'll be far worse for you and your employer if you develop complications because you didn't give yourself enough time to recover. Plus this has been a hell of an emotional roller coaster for you and that needs time to heal too.

Had mine in 2012, a second one due to reoccurance in a lymph node in 2015. I know it's different for everyone, but for me the surgery was a breeze. I was back at work in two days, bandage off in four, scar invisible by the second month (though it's bigger now with the second surgery). It doesn't hurt (and I'm terrified of…

Sounds like a problem with the dosage. The timing seems right. If they adjusted your dose, you should have a followup blood test already ordered for 8 weeks after the adjustment. If not, ask your endo for one. Maybe the adjustment was too much. I didn't suffer hair loss, but I was short of breath all the time. So now I cut…

There is a Thyroid Cancer group. We're at http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/11825-thyroid-cancer-thyroid-problems

DO NOT stop the progesterone. You both need it. In my immediate circle, we all spotted throughout the whole pregnancy. One had several periods in her first trimester but still grew a healthy baby boy and she doesn't have PCOS. It's just what happens sometimes. Everyone's different but please don't go against a nurse's…

I'm in the Madison area. Grew up outside of Milwaukee.

I agree with the others Search, don't wait. My progesterone levels were fine too but they still made me take additional progesterone suppositories through the second trimester to sustain the pregnancy. Everyone's different but make sure they are listening to you when you all discuss the risks of a pregnancy with PCOS.