POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME TREATMENT

If you are a woman diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), better adapt to a lifestyle change and a regimen of medications, exercise, and check up for most of your life, else it can be a frustrating experience for you.

A large number of American women in their childbearing age (5-10% and increasing) are presently detected with PCOS but a much higher percentage is likely to be undiagnosed and untreated because PCOS is often camouflaged with other diseases. This not only leaves them to suffer in the present but often develops to other serious problems like stroke, heart attack, and cancer.

A brief overview of PCOS

Although doctors are not sure as to what exactly triggers PCOS high levels of male hormones are commonly found in all PCOS patients which prevent their ovaries from producing an adequate amount of reproductive hormones and also from making eggs normally.

This imbalance in reproductive hormones is considered to be the main cause for PCOS. The hormonal imbalance affects the ovulation process in which either the ovaries can't release an egg every month as part of a healthy menstrual cycle or the released eggs may not be good quality and mature for fertilization.

PCOS causes these following major irregularities -

? Missing menstrual periods and Infertility.

? Development of cysts in the ovaries (small sacks filled with fluids, thus the name polycystic ovary syndrome).

? Production of a high level of male hormones.

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