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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Low GI diet definitely helps if you have the hormonal issues. Not sure it would do anything if you don't.

Amenorrhea by itself is not PCOS. I think the diagnostic criteria is 2 out of 3 main symptoms. I have polycystic ovaries and oligoovulation but NOT other symptoms (hirsutism, excess androgens, amenorrhea, overweight, etc). So I guess that means I am PCOS. However, I got pregnant easily both times I tried and have an oversupply of milk (and very low blood sugar -- like normal levels even not for pregnant women). I'm guessing this is because I don't have the hormonal issues but just have messed up ovaries.

My sister has PCOS, too, but has [i]every[/i] symptom EXCEPT polycystic ovaries (go figure!) and she has to do low GI diet and take metformin to menstruate regularly (or be on BC pills, but of course that doesn't help when attempting to get pregnant).

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PP, as I posted above, our case was an ultrasound negative for polycystic ovaries, but the cysts showed up on an MRI.  Not recommending your sister do an MRI (not needed for her to get treatment), but there is a chance she in fact has them and it would show on an MRI but not an ultrasound.[/quote]

She had an internal u/s and no evidence of cysts. When I had my u/s my cysts were instantly recognizable and large (they weren't visible on regular u/s, only the internal). Since she's clearly PCOS as per her other symptoms I think an MRI might be overkill :)[/quote]

Just to be clear--I agree an MRI would be overkill.  The MRI my daughter had was for other reasons and an incidental finding was 30 cysts on each ovary that didn't show up on the i/u ultrasound.  I found this interesting--they've said polycysts are no longer a criterion for a PCOS dx, probably because so many people who are clearly PCOS were not testing positives for cysts on untrasound.  If MRIs were cheap, I am betting many more PCOS patients would show evidence of polycysts.[/quote]

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