Originally Posted by scanny

Thanks for that, sorry about your problem - much pain? Must be difficult looking after all the littlies. Often don't get much sympathy with unseeable illnesses eh and of course it's a womans complaint!! Hope you've got some support. Never give up hope-knew a girl who was given a drug ? metformin usually given for diabetics to help with sugar control-has some action with polycystic ovaries not sure how but it helped her lose weight never got really skinny but certainly lost. Ask your gynae DR, did you get your meds passed wasn't sure if you meant not much hope for weight loss or passing meds?
Scanny

Originally Posted by anya4oz

Hi Scanny

Believe it or not, this is probably the question people on this forum ask most often about the meds.

I was worried sick that I'd fail my med, as I'd been taking steroids (for asthma) for 12 years, resulting in a huge & virtually impossible to shift weight gain. I managed to lose some of it for the med, but the doc didn't seem worried (though I got graded 'B' for my asthma - and still passed!).
Funniliy enough, she was more concerned about my very skinny hubby - grilled him along the lines of 'have you always been this thin?' which we both thought was very funny.

I took a letter from my Doc about the asthma - saying it was well under control etc. You may want to do this for your thyroid - it may add to the overall 'comfort factor' for the examining doc.

I'm sure one of the docs told me at the time that they would only be concerned about weight if someone is BMI of 35 and over and has other risk factors such as raised blood pressure, sugar traces in urine, comes from a family of diabetics etc.

There is a BMI calculator at: http://www.halls.md/body-mass-index/bmi.htm

Very best of luck with the med. - I'm sure you'll be fine!

Anya.