THE HOSTESS: Around one in five women have polycystic ovary syndrome with tiny cyst growing inside the ovaries. The cyst itself aren’t usually the problem, it’s the symptoms that go with it at all, irregular periods, acne, weight gain, excessive body hair and possible fertility problems. Our reporter Anna Lacy went to speak to her sister Rebecca about life with polycystic ovaries.

主持人：每五个女性当中就会有一个患有多囊卵巢综合症，卵巢内长着很小的一块囊肿。囊肿本身通常不能构成太大伤害，但一些相应的临床症状却威胁着女性健康。这些症状包括经期不规律、粉刺、体重增加，体毛过多以及可能造成的生育问题等。为了解患有卵巢囊肿综合症的女性的生活，我们的记者安娜•蕾茜采访了她的妹妹丽贝卡。

REBECCA: I have my first period when I was thirteen. So I was please about that you can imagine as a little girl and what happened was so, is that after I was 13 I had very few periods maybe one or two year. And that was quite concerting for me or your friends talking about it in school. But after a few years gone by, my mum and I, a kind of discuss that I was scared to go to the doctors and that kind of started the ball rolling and finding out that I actually did have folly cystic ovaries.
丽贝卡：我第一次月经来潮是在十三岁的时候。你可以想象，作为一个小女孩，我当时欣然接受了这个变化。然而，接下来发生的事情让我担心起来，之后大概有一到两年的时间，我几乎再也没有过月经期。每次在学校跟朋友们谈到这方面的事情，我都忐忑不安。又过了几年，我和妈妈开始讨论是不是要去看医生，但我当时很害怕。经过一番讨价还价后我才最终妥协，后来发现原来我得了多囊卵巢综合症。

ANNA LACY: Because it wasn’t just periods that you’re having problems with, was it?
安娜•蕾茜：是不是因为当时的症状不仅仅是经期不规律，你才决定去看医生？

REBECCA: No, I also had some other symptoms which I suppose you maybe say it was to do just being a teenager, I’m actually had very bad skin also that was breast development as you expected at that age, which also was quite a concern for a young girl you know when you are growing up they are the kind of things you don’t want to have to have.
丽贝卡：是的，我当时还出现了一些其他的症状，大家可能觉得有些症状对青春期的孩子来说是正常的。我的皮肤很不好，而且乳房的发育也很迟缓。你可以想象这给一个青春期的少女带来了怎样的困扰，我们之前并没有想过自己会患上这样的疾病。

ANNA LACY: I don’t have polycystic ovaries, despite having both sisters. And so how do you maybe feel, comparing, say to me, who was a couple of years older, and having periods, and getting a new bra, and that kind of things.
安娜•蕾茜：：你得了多囊性卵巢综合症，按说我也应该得，因为我们是姐妹，但我并没有。在你患病期间我还有着正常的生理周期，还可以因为身体发育的原因为自己新买一件文胸，那么你当时会是什么感觉呢，跟我相比而言？

REBECCA: Well, to be honest, I was pretty jealous. It was just something I want to be just like you. And I thought I wasn’t, and it made me just feel I suppose like uh, I wasn’t the proper girl, and you know that’s not very nice thing to feel when you are so aware of yourself and everybody else around you that age and um, I say ,also, It wouldn’t bother me now, but when you’re at that ages very very stressful situation to be in and it did bother me that that you, and all my friends were just having the normal life and I knew behind the doors and It didn’t seem normal for me.
丽贝卡：好吧，说实在的，我非常嫉妒。我只是想和你一样，可我认为不行。这让我感觉自己不是正常的。你知道，当你很在乎自我感觉和周围同龄人对你的看法时，这种感觉很不好。当然，现在这个问题已经不那么困扰我了，但在当时的年龄，当你和我的同伴们都享受着正常的生活，我却只能悄悄躲在门后伤心，对于我，那种生活看似是不正常的。

ANNA LACY: Cause I remembered the many times when you went to the doctors they did put it down to you she’s just growing up, she would catch up at the end, she’s just got the acne, here, have some steroid cream but they didn’t work, did they?
安娜•蕾茜：：你得了多囊性卵巢综合症，按说我也应该得，因为我们是姐妹，但我并没有。在你患病期间我还有着正常的生理周期，还可以因为身体发育的原因为自己新买一件文胸，那么你当时会是什么感觉呢，跟我相比而言？

REBECCA: No, there’s a couple of times I went to the doctors about my skin for example that’s probably the main thing that was really overt and, I was given different skin creams. They appeared to work in the beginning which was such a relief to me but then it was just mouthing over the real problem, and give a couple of months and then the problem seemed to kind of returned, didn’t it? And it seemed like the problem was never gonna getting me better, and I did go quite a few more times and then they decided to take some blood tests and that’s when we actually realized what I had.
丽贝卡：好吧，说实在的，我非常嫉妒。我只是想和你一样，可我认为不行。这让我感觉自己不是正常的。你知道，当你很在乎自我感觉和周围同龄人对你的看法时，这种感觉很不好。当然，现在这个问题已经不那么困扰我了，但在当时的年龄，当你和我的同伴们都享受着正常的生活，我却只能悄悄躲在门后伤心，对于我，那种生活看似是不正常的。

ANNA LACY: So, the polycystic ovary is to do with having a hormone imbalance. That’s why some of the developmental thing one happening as you should expected and then they put you on a pill, so how did that make difference?
安娜•蕾茜：我记得很多次你去看医生，他们都告诉你这些只是青春期的症状，等你长大了症状就会最终消失，你只是长了一些粉刺而已。然后给你一些粉刺霜之类的外用药，但是似乎没有效果，是吗？

REBECCA: Yeah, the pill was fantastic for me, I was put on it at 17, and very quickly my skin cleared up. Probably in the first months I noticed the huge difference, and it made me feel far more comfortable with myself. And quite noticeably as well I started to develop far quicker. And also because of I was on a pill, I was having periods so it made me feel a kind of more normal among my peer group. It was uh definitely beneficial going on to the pill.
丽贝卡：当然，这些药的疗效太好了！我是17岁开始服药的，很快，我皮肤上变暗的部分就恢复到了正常的肤色。大概吃了几个月的药我就发现自己的身体出现这令人欣喜的巨大变化了，这对我来说是个极大的鼓舞。同时，因为服用了这些药物，我发育的明显更快了，也有了正常的生理周期。这让我感觉我和其他的年轻人没什么不一样了。后来我坚持服用这些药物，的确是受益匪浅。

ANNA LACY: Well you’ve been on the pill now since 17, and now 21 and you have wonderful skin, and you have a lovely figure of course, how has polycystic affected you since then?
安娜•蕾茜：多囊卵巢综合跟荷尔蒙不平衡有关系，一些身体发育上的问题也是由此引起的。当你被确诊为卵巢囊肿综合症后，医生给你对症下药了，这次的疗效有不同吗？

REBECCA: To be honest, it hasn’t affected me at all, uh, I have periods and now I was just like any normal young person.
丽贝卡：老实说，它已经没什么影响了。现在我的经期十分有规律，我和任何正常的年轻人已经没有区别了。

ANNA LACY: And of course won’t you get a bit older and you might want to start family, there are a few issues around that aren’t there?
安娜•蕾茜：再过几年，你可能就会考虑组建一个家庭了，那么这会涉及到一些问题，不是吗？

REBECCA: Yeah, when I started asking the doctors just said you know, when I do want to have a family I need to cool off the pill and a mainly to take hormone tablets to increase eastern levels if necessary but always I would know until I do try for baby if that going to be necessary or not. But the doctors made it very clear that there would be no problem with me having baby it just maybe a little more difficult and by the time I do want to have children I think things would be fine.
丽贝卡：是的，我曾问过医生，他们说当我真正建立了家庭的时候，就得减少药量，如果仍然需要的话，就服用少量调节荷尔蒙的药物。但是我想，无论如何，我都要努力争取生育能力。不过医生已经明确的告诉我今后生孩子不会有问题，只是可能生育的过程要比其他女性更为艰苦。等我真正想要孩子的时候，我想我能够克服这些困难。

THE HOSTESS: Rebecca Lacy there and her experience with poly cystic ovaries, that’s all for this week, but I’ll be back at the same time next week for movie finding out a group of doctors exposed themselves to the elements on top of mount Everest, join me then.
主持人：这就是患有多囊卵巢综合症的丽贝卡•蕾茜和她的经历，本周内容到此结束。下周同一时间，让我们走进一群以身试险，把自己暴露在从珠峰顶端采集的元素面前的医生。欢迎到时收看！