Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi

So when it comes to diagnosing PCOS, right, you need to meet two out of three criteria.

The first one being symptoms of high testosterone or high androgens.

What are those?

facial hair, body hair, the most common, acne, oily skin, or male pattern hair thinning, which a lot of women complain of.

Number two is basically ovulation dysfunction.

These are women with irregular periods.

They get their periods over like, you know, 35 days.

It's not regular 28 days, or they get about eight periods per year.

These are patients who

Usually come to the doctor, and when you ask them how your periods are, they can't really tell.

They tell you it's irregular.

I can't quite pinpoint when I'm going to get my period.

And number three is PCOS-looking ovaries on ultrasound.

Polycystic ovary syndrome does not mean cyst.

That's a bad name.

It's this very specific finding on ultrasound when you see almost like 20 plus follicles in the ovary.

And these are follicles.

They look like string of pearl.

It's very specific to PCOS.

The issue is doctors don't recognize it.