View Poll Results: What type patient are you?
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traditional PCOS -- anovulatory, increased androgens, no insulin resistance
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61 |
19.37% |
syndrome X -- anovulatory, increased androgens, insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes
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83 |
26.35% |
non-traditional PCOS --anovulatory, normal androgens, obese, insulin resistant or type 2 diabetes
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45 |
14.29% |
non-traditional PCOS -- ovulatory, increased androgens, mild insulin resistance
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60 |
19.05% |
idiopathic hirsutism -- ovulatory, increased androgens, no insulin resistance
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11 |
3.49% |
Not sure -- but think I have PCOS or IR
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32 |
10.16% |
Don't have PCOS. I am Insulin Resistance (pre-diabetes)
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9 |
2.86% |
Other (What is it?)
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14 |
4.44% |
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03-09-2014, 10:05 PM
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#46
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: San Antonio
Posts: 11
S/C/G: 230/230/175
Height: 5'4"
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I have had pros for 10 yrs
I didn't know there were types
all I know is my sugar is high but not diabetic I'm losing my hair on my head and growing it everywhere else
I'm curious to know which type I have now
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05-27-2014, 09:27 PM
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#47
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Member
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Ohio
Posts: 35
S/C/G: 220/195/150
Height: 5'3"
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I'm curious how to know which type I am, since I have no clue what the symptoms mean exactly. Without birth control, I have 3 or 4 periods a year, about 2 weeks each - no cramps if that's relevant. High testosterone, not diabetic. So traditional?
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05-31-2014, 04:20 PM
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#48
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Junior Member
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Washington
Posts: 8
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Wow! I had no idea there were so many types of PCOS. I was diagnosed with PCOS about 14 or 15 years ago. I was told by my OBGYN at the time that I had a 'classic case of PCOS' and I never knew it could take on so many forms until I started to do my own research, but even this is something I've never read.
I would classify myself as non-traditional PCOS or quite possibly Syndrome X.
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06-06-2014, 12:52 PM
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#49
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Gotta Lose to Win
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Grand Prairie, TX
Posts: 234
S/C/G: 209/209/130
Height: 5'6
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Not sure what I am but my blood work always comes back within normal range but I have weight gain problems and cysts on my ovaries and dont ovulate for 6 months at a time now....
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07-05-2014, 09:32 AM
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#50
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Stubborn
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 106
S/C/G: 195/1175/145
Height: 5'5"
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I'm semi-ovulatory with poly-cystic ovaries, high androgens and borderline diabetes. I have regular(ish) cycles but I don't always ovulate. I also have hypothyroidism and some kind of adrenal gland issue. woot
Last edited by Number8; 07-05-2014 at 09:39 AM.
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01-11-2015, 09:00 PM
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#51
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Florida
Posts: 4
S/C/G: 257/256/130
Height: 5'3"
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I am traditional PCOS. Anovulatory, obese, excess body hair and increased androgens.
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01-20-2015, 01:36 PM
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#52
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2015
Posts: 17
S/C/G: 275/263/160
Height: 5'4"
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Non traditional and just plain weird. I'm ovulatory and menstruate like clockwork, but I never got a luteinizing hormone surge when we first tried until I started on Metformin. Also struggle with hirsuitism, increased androgens, and mild insulin resistance.
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01-22-2015, 12:32 PM
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#53
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Battling pcos daily
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Central Jersey
Posts: 25
S/C/G: 235/195/135
Height: 5'5"
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Non traditional here....
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01-22-2015, 02:31 PM
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#54
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Central Ontario, Canada
Posts: 4
S/C/G: S/C/G: 290/273/180
Height: 6'1
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Mixture
I have syndrome X and non- traditional PCOS>
obese, insulin resistant, pre-diabetic, definitely increased androgens...can't say about anovulatory since I had a hysterectomy several years ago, but kept my ovaries, which apparently don't work anyways ! Severe weight gain.
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01-23-2015, 03:52 PM
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#55
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There and Back Again
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: US-IL
Posts: 373
S/C/G: 300/289/213
Height: 5'2"
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I wasn't told a type, but to guess based on the symptoms that my MD told me, non-traditional PCOS -- ovulatory, increased androgens, mild insulin resistance. I guess that I'm fortunate. No excess hair growth in weird areas or acne. My eye brows are a little thick, but I chalk that up to genetics. I was diagnosed because most of my weight is concentrated around my mid-section. My doc ran a bunch of blood work and ordered an ultrasound. He saw a lot of cysts around my ovaries and my blood work was abnormal. I have hypothyroidism and a vitamin B12 deficiency as well. So, that may keep the hair growth in check.
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01-23-2015, 06:31 PM
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#56
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: California (southern), United States
Posts: 121
S/C/G: 242/232/110
Height: 5ft7
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I put nontraditional pcos but I also fall under syndrome X.
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04-25-2016, 06:49 AM
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#57
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Cambridge, New Zealand
Posts: 391
S/C/G: 331/191/170
Height: 5'10
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I think I have the traditional PCOS - one of my Drs in the past seemed to think I have PCOS others where I know live fob it off especially since I have had children!
I have weight issues - being obese but not diabetic and loosing weight is hard work - very hard work
I have excess facial hair and when I get my monthly (that terms a joke) it increases more
I have acne problems - around that time of the month - And I don't just mean a few pimples or just on the face
I get skin tags quite badly in the arm pits (eww ok To much Info I suppose it is)
& have higher then normal blood pressure
One symptom I am grateful for not having which might be one of the other types is hair thinning / hair loss!
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