Posted by Larry Hoover on October 12, 2003, at 10:10:43
In reply to Question for Larry Hoover, posted by sarita0001 on October 11, 2003, at 22:08:39
> Hi Larry,
>
> You are so helpful to others on this site, Thanks.Thanks for the acknowledgement.
> I have a question that psychiatrists and dermatologists seem to have difficulty figuring out.
Maybe you're seeing the wrong kind of doctor?
> From January 2003-May 2003, I was on 675 Lithium and at the most 100mg Topamax. For a month and a half I was on birth control too. Around March when I was at 100mg Topamax/lithium, no birth control, I started growing more hair on my body everywhere, even eyelashes,ears.That's called hirsutism. I'd connect that to going off birth control, not the psych meds. Hirsutism is a hormonal disturbance. Have you been assessed for PCOS? That's polycystic ovarian syndrome. It's associated with multiple disturbances in hormones. See:
http://centerforpcos.bsd.uchicago.edu/Defining_PCOS/body_defining_pcos.htmlIt may be nothing more than a coincidence that you were on psych meds at the time of its first manifestations.
> It got worse when I went off the Topamax and is still happening but slowing down. I continued on 675 lithium until last week. No doctors have an explanation. My new psychiatrist says that when you add another drug it can bring out the side effects of the other, in this case lithium, maybe explaining why the hair growth didn't stop. Now I am not on anything so we'll see what happens.
Please get a referral to an ob/gyn. You should get an ultrasound and blood work done. If that's normal, then we should look at other ideas.
> Any thoughts? thanks so much.
>
> SaraGood luck,
Lar
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