For women with PCOS not seeking pregnancy, continuous oral contraceptives can regulate cycles, decrease androgens, and manage acne and hirsutism.

“If the goal is to treat the hyperendrogenic symptoms like the acne and the heretism, again, hormonal treatments usually effective for that. When you say hormonal treatments, you mean like spironolactone and things like that? We usually start with birth control pills. birth control pills very effective for for most symptoms of PCOS. It'll regulate the cycles, decrease androgen levels, help with heretism and acne, etc.”