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I agree with you...surely they can! However, it takes awareness for "them" to even be interested in finding cures for PCOS and its horrid symptoms. There are some in the scientific community who are trying to find treatments for PCOS. I just signed up to do a research study at VCU in VA. I am really excited about it (even though I have to travel from Maryland to Richmond, VA, but I think it may benefit me and other women in the future.) Check out the Resources page if you are interested in finding a study near you. I am like you with the aversion to medication, so my study does not include medicinal intervention; however, just check to see if there are any that you would not mind being involved with. Good luck!
Hang in there, this is a horrible condition, and we need people who are truly supportive around us. So, there is a reason your ex is an EX...most of the women on the site have found very supportive partners who are with them through infertility, beards, and weight gain. So, great partners are out there. We are already going through enough as is...we don't need others to help us feel worse.
That is what I look like right now. I gave up after heading interstate to visit my ex in October 2008.
I'm sick of shaving every day and the itchy stubble. I can't use creams because they burn me, and I've been told by several reputable laser clinics that the lasers don't work on red hair, so that's out too. I was on Androcur for a year, but it had no impact on the hair so I stopped taking it.
People look. No one says anything, so I'm just ignoring it for the time being. Pretend it's not there.
Though my Dad keeps bringing it up. He want's me to see an endocrinologist, but I know what they're going to say "there's nothing we can do to fix it, just slow it until such time as you stop taking the medication, when it will come back with a vengance". Plus they don't really know what long term effects these drugs will have.
I don't really find that to be an acceptable answer. If there are scientists working on genetically modifying foods and plants, and growing ears on the backs of mice, then surely curing hirsutism cannot possibly be that difficult.