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If you have PCOS, you may be insulin resistant. With this condition, the ability of your cells to respond to the action of insulin in transporting glucose (sugar) from the blood stream into muscle and tissue is greatly diminished. Metformin improves the cell's response to insulin, and helps move glucose into the cell. As a result, your body will not be required to make as much insulin (1).



Spironolactone for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
 

How It Works

Spironolactone is a diuretic, which gets rid of excess salt and water in the body. It also reduces androgen levels in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Why It Is Used

Spironolactone reduces androgen levels, which reduces male-pattern hair growth (hirsutism), hair loss, and acne for women with PCOS.

Spironolactone used alone can cause irregular bleeding and could cause problems if used during pregnancy. For these reasons, it is usually taken along with birth control pills. It is used to control irregular menstrual bleeding and to reduce hirsutism.

How Well It Works

About 70% to 80% of women with PCOS see a reduction in excess hair growth after taking spironolactone. It may take up to 6 months of daily use to be fully effective.¹

Side Effects

Side effects from spironolactone may include:

• Irregular menstrual periods, with higher doses of the medicine.
• Rash.
• Scalp hair loss.
• Nausea or fatigue, with higher doses of the medicine.
• Cramping, diarrhea.
• Drowsiness, lack of energy.
• Headache, confusion.

Side effects go away when you stop using spironolactone.

See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)



 

INSULIN RESISTANCE IS A ROOT CAUSE OF PCOS

Are you one of the millions of women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome who, no matter what they've tried, has failed to better manage or reverse the symptoms of this condition? It may not be due to lack of willpower. Instead, you could be Insulin Resistant, a root cause of PCOS. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health, Stanford University and other research centers have clearly identified the existence and effects of Insulin Resistance, a biochemical condition that can cause excessive weight gain and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.

If you are among the 65% of the overweight population with Insulin Resistance, your ability to better manage or reverse your PCOS and lose weight may not have been within your control - until now.

This breakthrough in understanding the body's biochemistry remains relatively unknown, even though Insulin Resistance has reached epidemic proportions. Your doctor may not have explained the crucial link between Insulin Resistance, weight gain and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.

You need to understand this link in order to better manage or reverse your condition. The Insulite PCOS System is the first scientifically-designed method that can help you do this by reversing Insulin Resistance.

PCOS AND INSULIN RESISTANCE

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a hormonal imbalance linked to the way the body processes insulin after it has been produced by the pancreas to regulate blood sugar (glucose). Insulin Resistance, an underlying cause of PCOS, has many factors that contribute to its presence in the body. In essence, our environment and lifestyles have evolved too rapidly for our bodies to keep pace. We are still genetically "wired" to thrive on the entrenched habits of our ancestors, who consumed different, nutrient-rich foods and a diet low in carbohydrates and who sustained greater levels of movement and exercise. Some people may also have a genetic predisposition to Insulin Resistance, while others develop the condition through high stress and unhealthy lifestyles.

Over time, the above factors have damaged the complex ability of the body's cells to properly utilize insulin to convert glucose to energy. This process creates Insulin Resistance

 

Insulin Resistance vastly reduces the insulin sensitivity of cells, which impairs the processing of glucose through the cell wall for conversion to energy. As a result, glucose remains in the blood stream, causing elevated levels of blood sugar, which are sent to the liver. Once there, the sugar is converted into fat and stored via the blood stream throughout the body. This process can lead to weight gain and obesity, key factors in creating PCOS, which is also referred to as Polycystic Ovarian Disease or PCOD.

Insulin Resistance can also cause PCOS is by raising insulin levels in the blood stream. Unhealthy lifestyles and genetic conditions can lead to the pancreas overproducing insulin. This excess insulin stimulates the ovaries to produce large amounts of the male hormone testosterone, which may prevent the ovaries from releasing an egg each month, thus causing infertility. High levels of insulin also increase the conversion of androgens (male hormones) to estrogens (female hormones), upsetting a delicate balance between the two and having a direct effect on weight gain and the formation of cystic follicles or ovarian cysts.

LOL what haven't I tried!!!!!!!

Atkins was the very first diet I went on with my mom I was 12 

Then it was a large Steak everymorning and that was it

 (these were obviously before I became a vegetarian...LOL)

Then it was Starvation , no more than 500 cal a day I ate fruit roll ups and rice cakes (*** shivers***)

Slim fast

Then I made up my own: The ramen Diet. A bag of ramen, with a half to a whole bag of veggies twice a day. I would had clams or tuna about everyother day. (ya I know where's the protein??) I did lose about 50 lbs It came back of course!

Then Southbeach this is actually a very good diet plan for maintance

These my friends are only the Diets I can remember!!!! There have been so many in my [ahem] years.

Now I  no longer Diet! Today I make Healthy Choices!!