26-04-2017, 00:32
I had PCOS too! I started bioidentical hormone replacement therapy in September 2016. They actually did urine tests to check for sex hormones, which is the most accurate way. You can actually order your own kit online and send it off to a facility for analysis. Then they will send you the results. It can be a little expensive (I think I paid about $400 for my test kit because insurance doesn't cover my hormone therapy).
I don't know where you live but bioidentical hormone therapy doctors are becoming a lot more common in the US lately. I was surprised when I searched for one several months ago after having first searched 7 years ago or so, at which time they were very rare.
Like you I had a lot of the same PCOS symptoms. When I was a teenager I was high in testosterone so I was put on birth control. Then when I went to do hormone therapy and I got my hormone results back, they told me I was estrogen dominant and progesterone low. I was surprised that high testosterone wasn't a problem anymore!
Anyway, after several months of hormone therapy and adding a estrogen detox support supplement as per the doctor's orders, I started taking bovine ovary and the PCOS pains and other symptoms I used to get (constipation, localized pain, back pain, and constantly having to pee whenever I had active cysts) all went away. I actually haven't had any of those symptoms since I started BO over a month ago. I think the combination of the BO and the hormone therapy may have actually gotten rid of it. But we will see once I come off the BO.
I don't know where you live but bioidentical hormone therapy doctors are becoming a lot more common in the US lately. I was surprised when I searched for one several months ago after having first searched 7 years ago or so, at which time they were very rare.
Like you I had a lot of the same PCOS symptoms. When I was a teenager I was high in testosterone so I was put on birth control. Then when I went to do hormone therapy and I got my hormone results back, they told me I was estrogen dominant and progesterone low. I was surprised that high testosterone wasn't a problem anymore!
Anyway, after several months of hormone therapy and adding a estrogen detox support supplement as per the doctor's orders, I started taking bovine ovary and the PCOS pains and other symptoms I used to get (constipation, localized pain, back pain, and constantly having to pee whenever I had active cysts) all went away. I actually haven't had any of those symptoms since I started BO over a month ago. I think the combination of the BO and the hormone therapy may have actually gotten rid of it. But we will see once I come off the BO.