Hormonal imbalance

Dr. Kate, I am 28 and have been dating my boyfriend for over a year and at least once a month, I bleed after sex. Sometimes it is a little bit and sometimes it is a lot and I need to wear a tampon afterward. I have been to my gyno twice telling her how nervous I am, and she says that everything... Read More »

I've written before about harmless ovarian cysts, but I want to talk about the problem of too many cysts. PCOS, short for polycystic ovarian syndrome, happens to about one in ten women. The hallmark of the disease is multiple small cysts on both ovaries. While these cysts don't... Read More »

Doctors--even yours truly--can be lazy. I don't mean in how many hours they work (which is a lot) or how hard they work to treat patients (which is really hard). I mean that even the best of us can occasionally not really listen to a patient's complaints, or sometimes talk to a patient... Read More »