#what is cortisol

[pcod-symptoms]

3 Medications You May Be Prescribed if You Have PCOD

Polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD) is a medical condition that can lead to several side effects in women, including fertility challenges and weight management problems. If you have been diagnosed with PCOD, your doctor may prescribe medications to reduce symptoms.

Below are three common medication options for PCOD that may help:

1. Metformin

Metformin is a generic diabetes medication that helps to reduce total blood glucose (sugar) by decreasing the amount of glucose absorbed by the body and processed in the liver. Women are sometimes prescribed metformin for PCOD because the condition tends to cause trouble with weight management and blood glucose processing due to hormone imbalances.

When a woman is prescribed metformin for PCOD, this doesn’t necessarily indicate that she has diabetes, but this can be a concern as well. Diabetes can come along with PCOD, and some women may develop diabetes as a result of the condition before discovering that PCOD is part of the cause.

2. Avandia

Avandia (rosiglitazone) is a medication that is usually prescribed to treat PCOD symptoms when a woman is experiencing infertility. Avandia is designed to induce ovulation, and it is often used as a first-line medication for women who are having difficulty getting pregnant naturally.

PCOD often causes fertility issues in addition to problems with weight management and blood sugar. When used as prescribed by your doctor, Avandia may make it easier for women with PCOD to get pregnant, but the medication does not stop other PCOD symptoms.

3. Femara

Femara (letrozole) is a breast cancer drug that is also used to stimulate fertility, and it works by lowering estrogen levels. Although this may sound counter-intuitive in a woman who has low estrogen due to PCOD, Femara stimulates other hormones that increase fertility.

If you are prescribed Femara, the risk of developing osteoporosis may increase. As a result, it’s important to stay on top of all follow-up appointments with your doctor to ensure your body is healthy.

Disclaimer: The above information is presented for educational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Only your doctor can guide you in treating a medical condition.

Read a similar article about testosterone and PCOS here at this page.

[violent138]

I do not envy Batman at all. Imagine an entire League of superheroes-- aliens, gods, part gods, metas, verifiable geniuses-- all turning to you for the answers or the plans or even how to keep this delicate yet vital alliance going (not all the time, but it happens a lot).

He's the master of faking it till they make it and convincing himself that if one of his plans was really that bad one of the others would point it out.

But that does nothing about the stress that keeps him up all night, devising all kinds of contingencies because he has nightmares about suddenly being asked about any number of catastrophes.

[canonicallyanxious]

i'm stupid so i absolutely did not put together Conrad Schintz as "conscience" until i saw someone in the tag point this out but now that it's in my dumb brain i can't stop thinking about it. Alex's choice to portray Conrad as this softspoken never speaks up but still has to do Something boy who is kind and thoughtful to a fault. pitch perfect character choices!!! but also this tiny quiet boy somehow being pegged by the heads of the city as the BIGGEST DISTRACTION to the big guy's goals and ambitions!! and then his choice of the important article to pay attention to being the culmination of Elias' months and months of research - specifically for the goal of, as Conrad put it, getting it before the "big wigs" could get to it. WHAT is Elias Hodge DOING for Gobstopper Industries??????

[kindred-spirit-93]

penelope canonically retreating to her room and refusing food = she puts on some weight, the reason being both lack of physical activity as well as her body being on constant emergency mode (so what little she does eat ends up being stored away bc the body doesnt know when the 'starvation' will end). whats more her constant stress elevates cortisol levels which in and of itself leads to weight gain esp in the abdominal area.

tl;dr chubby penelope send fucking t w e e t

[wuntrum]

daily affirmations my body is so normal and healthy and normal

[aropride]

now i have too much scared and nothing to do about it and i dont even get the benefit of getting it over with and i have to get scared agsin tomorrow . BASHING MY HEAD INTO A WALL UNTIL I DIE

[lue-arlert]

All I wanna do is yap and eat

[gentlethorns]

you know what? i'm gonna say it. i miss being seventeen. not for the "glory days," bc they weren't, by a country mile lol. if i had glory days i'd say they were in 2020. but i miss the electricity, the constant undercurrent of euphoria and deep plunging black. i miss the fight i had. i was literally known for being scrappy. i was self-destructive and coping poorly, but goddamn if i didn't burn bright and long. it took me until my twenties to finally start to fizzle out. does the candle with its wax melted down to the base of its glass cage miss when the wick was lit?

[scorndotexe]

my mother is inching towards winning a prize for being the least helpful person who thinks she's the most helpful person in the world

[wheredidmydrillgo]

when can I rest

[userkatekanearchived]

gud morn i finally deleted the clock app what a thrill

[mars-ipan]

folks these steroids have me ERRATIC tonite

[pigletinastrawberrypatch]

So last summer, when my narcissist shitbag father kept sending me into sobbing-on-the-ground-unable-to-move-or-breathe breakdowns one after the other to the point where I went to the ER for suicidal ideation, all of my fucking hair was falling out

Like, to the point where it was noticeable. At least to me, maybe not to other people since I've always had Very Strong hair genes and it's always been thicc. So I basically went from a lions mane to an average amount of hair and I Hate It.

But it's finally growing back in a noticeable way!

Unfortunately, that means I just have a shit ton of frizz that I don't know what to do about (thanks, 2C hair). A significant amount of which is just right at the front of my head.

I'm hoping by next summer it will be better??? Like able to be shoved into the bun on my head???

[magpie-to-the-morning]

I had a meeting today to discuss the next steps of my ADA request, but they bumped me last minute. Again. 😵‍💫

[hvlcy0n]

ten hour retail shifts are not for the weak

EDIT: JUST KIDDING GUYS IT TURNED INTO AN 11 AND A HALF HOUR ONE

[bedforddanes75]

keep seeing that person who is OBSESSED with posture and its actually pissing me off