PCOS

The conventional medical way of diagnosing the problem when a woman has evidence of one of three problems: 1) androgen excess (usually hirsutism or acne); 2) “funny periods” like amenorrhea, oligomenorrhea or irregular cycles, past or present ovulation disturbances (anovulatory or short luteal phase cycles); 3) many ovarian cysts in larger-than-normal ovaries. PCOS, like AAE is associated with both infertility and risk for insulin resistance and Diabetes Mellitus Type 2. Because ovarian cysts simply indicate that an egg was not released—which most commonly occurs in women without androgen excess, Anovulatory Androgen Excess or AAE is CeMCOR’s preferred term.