What is PCOS, its cause and symptoms?

Riya c.  Health Blog
PCOS is a hormonal disorder that is common in women of reproductive age. Women with PCOS have infrequent or prolonged menstrual periods or excess male hormone (androgen) levels. Well, the ovaries develop numerous small collections of fluid (follicles) and fail to regularly release eggs.

These are the common symptoms of the syndrome:

Irregular Periods
Hair growth
Heavy Bleeding
Weight gain
Acne
Headaches
Skin darkens
Trouble getting pregnant
The problem in sleeping, Tired all the time

Causes:

Overconsumption of Insulin
Inflammation
Heredity
Excess Androgen
Dec 27th 2019 07:05   

Harrell Magee  American Airlines Trusted Travel Agents
absence of menstruation or either short and light menstruation
Dec 28th 2019 00:14   

Kerala Tourism  Kerala Tourism Enterprises
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a condition that affects a woman’s hormone levels.
Dec 30th 2019 22:53   

Aditi Arora  Creative Health Blogger & Social Media Marketing
absence of menstruation or either short and light menstruation
Jan 14th 2020 23:58   

Sneha Bhatt  IVF Center
PCOS is a kind of cyst that affect female's fertility
Feb 7th 2020 23:57   

IVF India  Best IVF Centre in Delhi
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), also known by the name Stein-Leventhal syndrome, is a hormonal problem that causes women to have a variety of symptoms. It should be noted that most women with the condition have a number of small cysts in the ovaries.
Feb 10th 2020 07:49   

Kulgorvi Yadav  Digital Marketing excutive
The reason you may develop PCOS is, at least in part, determined by your genes. You can inherit the risk for PCOS.

Family members of women who have PCOS are also at higher risk for developing the same metabolic abnormalities. However, there’s no single PCOS gene. A wide variety of genes and mechanisms seem to be at work, which may explain why PCOS has a wide range of symptoms and develops at different ages for women. Several genetic studies in PCOS implicate genes that affect hormone levels and insulin resistance.

Most women with polycystic ovary syndrome can expect to gain excess weight. Obesity and overweight status contribute to insulin resistance. While obesity exacerbates insulin resistance, even lean women with PCOS have insulin resistance. Researchers have shown that women with PCOS regardless of their weight (overweight and lean) will experience insulin resistance as compared to women of the same age and weight who do not have PCOS. This is notable because it suggests that the excess weight—often a key factor in insulin resistance in women (and men) without PCOS—isn’t the only factor causing insulin problems in people who have PCOS.

Hormones affect tissues throughout your body and can increase your odds of health conditions that you might not readily associate with more familiar PCOS issues such as infertility and menstrual problems.¹⁰ The hormonal imbalances behind PCOS put women at higher-than-normal risk for a wide range of well beyond the reproductive system.

Irregular menstrual cycles: Most women with PCOS have unpredictable menstrual cycles with infrequent periods (often more than 35 days apart) or no periods at all (amenorrhea). The reason for you irregular ovulation or no menstruation is a direct effect of hormone imbalances. Your periods may be light because you’re not ovulating or extremely heavy because the lining of your uterus, called the endometrium, continues to thicken when the monthly cycle doesn’t happen. Since this lining is shed during a menstrual period, there is more to shed when you do menstruate. Women with PCOS typically have fewer than six to eight menstrual periods in a year (the norm is about 10 to 17 periods per year.) About 10-15% of women with polycystic ovary syndrome have slightly longer cycles, lasting 32-36 days.

Infertility: With PCOS, hormonal imbalances interfere with normal ovulation. When your ovaries do not release an egg, you can’t conceive. Infertility affects up to 80% of women with PCOS. There is good news for women who want to become pregnant: Strategies including lifestyle changes, ovulation-inducing medications, surgery and other fertility treatments mean most women with PCOS will be able to become pregnant.
Jun 2nd 2022 01:29