Part of the Metabolic, Endocrine & Women’s Disorders Centre
Conditions where the presenting complaint — a cycle, a symptom, difficulty conceiving — is downstream of something metabolic, hormonal or inflammatory. We assess the driver before treating the finding.
Polycystic ovary syndrome is usually presented as an ovarian problem. It behaves much more like a metabolic one that expresses through the ovaries.
Infertility is a finding that something else is producing. The useful question is not how to force conception but what is preventing it.
Menopause is not a condition to be cured. Where the symptoms are disabling, though, they are treatable — and they are not something to be endured on principle.
Persistent vulval pain with nothing to find on examination is real, common, and routinely dismissed. The absence of a visible cause is part of the definition, not evidence that nothing is wrong.