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Those of you with PCOS this is a very interesting article.

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I have also read that a young woman in Japan with multiple PCOS was cured with thyroid hormones and didn't need an operation. Excerpt:

It is noteworthy that the young woman's ovarian cysts completely disappeared soon after she began thyroid hormone therapy. Other researchers have reported girls with primary hypothyroidism whose main health problems were ovarian cysts or precocious puberty. But this appears to be the first case in which a young adult female had ovarian cysts that resulted from autoimmune-induced hypothyroidism.

The researchers cautioned clinicians: "To avoid inadvertent surgery to remove an ovarian tumor, it is essential that a patient with multiple ovarian cysts and hypothyroidism be properly managed, as the simple replacement of a thyroid hormone could resolve the ovarian cysts."[1]

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I ended up with a hysterectomy at 40 and subsequently one ovary removed. I was so incredibly late to be diagnosed with hypo that in my opinion these ops could have been avoided with thyroid treatment from my early twenties.

The cysts on my other ovary have since miraculously disappeared...

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You are probably right as doctors don't treat by clinical symptoms and know few of them. The only seem to take notice of the TSH and maybe T4 but nothing else.

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