Patient's Query
Hello doctor,
I am 36 years old. I have been suffering from PCOD for the past nine years. The blood flow is very less. I also have had a milky discharge from the breast for the past two years. I have had mammography done two years ago. It was fine. Then gynecologist asked me to ignore it. In my recent scan, uterine myometrium shows speckled heterogeneous echo texture. I have a bulky uterus with early adenomyotic changes. Radiologist said I have an infection. Sometimes I have cotton cheese-like discharge. Today I have abdominal pain and back pain. What to do? Is it a serious condition?
Kindly help.
Hello,
Welcome to icliniq.com.
I understand your concern.
Let me give you basic facts about PCOD (polycystic ovarian disease). This is a congenital condition; I mean it is a genetically programmed condition. You get it from your parents. When you suddenly put on weight, this cholesterol is converted into the estrogen hormone. In your body too, when fat, which is a store for tomorrow, is more than normal, this is converted to the hormone that tips the balance between FSH (from the brain) and the ovarian hormone. FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone), as the name suggests, stimulates the follicle from the ovary, but once the follicle is big enough to ovulate, the FSH is suppressed by the same estrogen hormone from the ovary. But when the same estrogen hormone is coming from fat, the brain is confused, and follicle growth stops early at a smaller follicle size and will not rupture. At the next scan, you will see all these follicles as polycystic ovaries. This is usually associated with obesity, irregular cycles, no periods for a few months, and later heavy periods with clots and fleshy masses, spotting on and off, thyroid abnormality, and prolactin problems indirectly.
You develop that extra pad of fat around the mid-segment of the body, especially the waist, thigh, and breasts, with no fat beyond the elbow and knees. Excessive body hair growth, hair fall, a dark shade over the lower half of the face, acne, oily face skin, black skin over the back of the neck, inner thighs, and under the surface of the breast. May have a family history of diabetes, especially father or his family. This will not allow ovulation to occur at any time and so you cannot get pregnant, till treated. It also increases your chances of early pregnancy abortions. But this has a solution.
Once you reduce weight to the normal range, you will not need any medicine to get periods or to get pregnant and pregnancy will be healthy.
To reduce weight -
In this condition, there will be thyroid hormone abnormality, which indirectly alters the prolactin hormone and can stimulate milk production. As your blood level of prolactin was normal, just forget it. No need for follow-up, reduce weight, and do not keep checking on and off if any milk is coming. Use a tight bra, so that breasts do not sag. It will be gone in a few weeks. Can have vitamin E capsules.
Your ovaries are bulky, not PCOD.
Before treatment confirm that you are not pregnant.
Adenomyosis- Every month as blood comes out of the cervix in periods, some amount enters the wall of the uterus, and gradually the size of the uterus increases. Pain and bleeding during periods also gradually increase. If you have no symptoms and only a scan finding, just forget it. Once periods stop, this will disappear. Have a tablet of Sevista 60 mg twice a week for 5 to 10 years; by then you will enter menopause. This medicine has no side effects and is not costly.
Hope I have clarified your query. Do write back if any more queries.
Thank you.
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Answered byDr. Balakrishnan. R
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