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Can birth control pills help with my polycystic ovary syndrome? if i start birth control pills, could this improve my polycystic ovary syndrome?
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Can regulate periods: Ocps are standard treatment for pcos. They can help to artifically "regulate" your periods. But they don't 'fix' the underlying hormonal imbalance. This is harder to do. The pills are impt - b/c they 'protect' the endometrium from the chronic overexposure to estrogen in pcos pts and thereby decrease the risks for pcos pts to get endometrial cancer in the future.
Answered 3/2/2013
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