Symptoms of PCOs? DD 16 suffering with similar symtoms+period pain

[YorkshireDreamer]

Hi
Title says it all tbh.
My dd is 16 (turned 16 in September) and she has really painful periods every month to the point she misses school and she has always had excessive body hair since being little and since going through puberty she has facial hair which she removes with hair removal cream she also has bad acne and oily skin. Can anyone help me? Is it worth Her seeing Her school nurse when she goes back to school next week? (Dd is a weekly boarder at boarding school) can anyone help me? How do they control pcos? Does anyone suffer from IT? What were your syptoms?
Sorry for extreme waffling

[agoodbook]

My daughter was diagnosed with PCOS at 18 ( sort of luckily when she went to uni- the doctor who she signed up with was the UK expert on it at the time !). Hairy, yes, acne yes, piled on loads of weight, but her periods actually stopped. She eventually had a scan, and its very bad . She has lived with it now for 15 years. She takes metformin to control her blood sugar. Hope you find out what the problem is .

[YorkshireDreamer]

Unfortunately it's normal to wait round here. And our family doctor is really really good and thorough. It's difficult Becauss dd is. Weekly boarder so I can't book her an appointment for her own doctor because it would mean missing an awful lot of school with train times etc..
I think best thing to do is ring the school and ask for her to see their nurse/gp who will refer her elsewhere. There's definelty something more to her periods

[AttilaTheMeerkat]

I'd be actually now asking the GP to refer her to a gynaecologist for further evaluation. This is a problem outside both a nurse and a GP remits.

She needs a diagnosis first and foremost.

PCOS is likely to be the root cause of her hirsuitism and skin problems.

I would encourage her to keep a daily pain and symptom diary as this will give the gynae more clues.

Her ongoing painful periods may be due to endometriosis (PCOS does not cause painful periods to arise). Its usually only diagnosed through a keyhole surgery op called a laparoscopy. What she is getting in terms of painful periods is not normal and should certainly be investigated further.

Any chance of changing GP practice unless your own family doctor is really good. Having to wait an age to see the GP is not at all good.

[YorkshireDreamer]

I will tell her to go to the gp/nurse when she's back at school. As our family doctor has a long waiting list

[YorkshireDreamer]

I know.. Teen years are bad and she suffers every month its not nice,but there's definelty something more to these periods. I took her when she was 12/13 and they said it could be her periods regulating and the general pain girls get when they begin their period. But now she's 16 shes irregular with her periods and others have said it sounds like pcos

[Msdj]

Yoir daughter does sound like she has some of the PCOS symptoms but she could also be suffering from
Just being a teenager. I was tested at 20 as I had been trying to conceive. I had to have some blood tests and also an internal scan and they found multiple cysts on my ovaries which confirmed it.

I was lucky that I didn't have the extra hair. Think gps recommend laser for that. I wasn't given any treatment. Only to help me conceive.

Think your first port of call is to the gp and go from there. It's horrid enough being a teenager without having extra problems on top x