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A 25-year-old female asked:
i have pcos. sometimes my cycle is 40+days usually my lh:fsh ratio very high during this time. when cycle is 30-35 days my lh is much lower. why this?
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Dr. Jovita Anyanwu answered
Internal Medicine 30 years experience
Did you lose: weight or start on metformin as those could improve your hormonal balance and insulin resistance.Decreasing the gonadal response to LH
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A 29-year-old female asked:
My LH level is 4 and FSH level is 2 , 3 days before my cycle. Does it indicated pcos ?
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Dr. Jeffrey Ng answered
Family Medicine 31 years experience
Nope: A diagnosis of pcos usually gives a lh to fsh ratio of 3:1 in about 30% of women with pcos. A more efficient assessment may be to use the ratio of fasting levels of glucose to insulin. When <4.5, this ratio has strong correlation with Insulin resistance. Go see you doctor for further explanation.
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