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Eddy County

Has anyone met with a reproductive endocrinologist and gotten specific blood work done to see what’s going on with hormone imbalance? I feel like this may be the beginning to a way to start a treatment plan, for me. I’ve tried different weight loss regimens and have been mildly successful but always manage to gain back some of the weight I lost. I’m currenyl not on birth control, but I do take metformin. I’ve even considered the lap band procedure to help with controlled weight loss. Any tips on… read more

April 29, 2018
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A myPCOSteam Member

Your doctor may want to start off with hormone levels like (estrogen/progesterone/FSH/LH/Testosterone), TSH for thyroid, Vitamin D hydroxy, Lipids. After that they may want to rule out other things that may cause your symptoms. Labs like cortisol, 17-hydroxyprogesterone, DHEA, Thyroid peroxidase, Insulin, HgbA1c. That is what they did for me. I saw my PCP first then the 2nd set of labs was done by the endocrinologist. Gives them a place to start...

April 30, 2018
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Excellent, thanks SO much!!

April 30, 2018

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