I was recently diagnosed with PCOS. I hadn't had a period in a long time and had some other issues typical of PCOS. I had some blood work done and I had an elevated level of testosterone. So great I thought. Then I was told I had kind of abnormal levels of prolactin. I was like fractions away from being in the abnormal range.

Everything I read says usually people have high prolactin and low testosterone. I am confused as to why that would be?

We decided not to do an MRI as I don't have insurance.

However now I keep having problems with my ear. It comes and goes and has been a problem for a couple months now. I will get ear pain, for maybe a night, awful terrible pain, wake up and I'm totally fine. I will be talking and lose some hearing for a second and then be fine. I also hear my heart beat now and then in my ear.

I doubt this could be related, right?

Why do people get elevated prolactin levels?

Also I was put on a very low dose antidepressant after the fact. Couldn't that raise my prolactin level even higher?

When do you decide an MRI is important enough to drop the $1000's of dollars for something like this? I mean technically I was not in the abnormal range by a little tiny bit, but at the same time it seemed weird that the levels would be elevated like that.

I just feel like I don't know enough and that google is making me feel worse than better because of all the different information out there.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks