Thanks, guys - fascinating answers : )  Assuming a 100% diabetic response,
the figures look like this:

Different finger lengths 4
Same finger lengths 4                      PCOS 1
Different on different hands (significant difference) 3

So I guess that doesn't take the theory anywhere fast : )

Nicky.

I thought pointer and ring man, that's what I measured, tall
man is tall on my hands ;) pinky is short....process of
elimination...

Mine are virtually identical in length, especially close on the right hand.

I had no fertility problems nor signs of PCOS until my late 30s, after
trying the Ornish diet.  All cysts and other signs went away as soon as
I started low carbing.

(Low carb with or without metformin are commonly the treatment for PCOS).

Susan

Are you right handed?

How odd. I just looked at two of my kids, their ring fingers
are longer than pointer. Like me. Sure you didn't chop some
of your ring fingers off as a child? ;)

I'm pretty sure you have that in reverse, Em.

Susan

This is odd!  I had looked before and would have said they were the same.
They are on my right hand.  But on my left hand, the pointer is a tiny bit
longer.  Not only that, but in comparing the hands, the pointer, middle and
ring finger on the left hand are all a tiny bit longer than those on the
right hand.  But my right thumb is a tiny bit longer than the thumb on my
left hand.  I am right handed.  And now I think I have freak hands!  Just
one more thing I have to worry about.  Hehe.

You don't have to try to get pregnant to have PCOS.  At the extreme,
PCOS women are obese or overweight, have greasy hair, acne, male pattern
baldness and are hirsute with masculine hair patterns.  Ovarian cysts
may or may not be present.

I developed PCOS in midlife after a very fertile young life with no
signs of it.  It's one of the manifestations of severe insulin
resistance and/or hyperinsulinemia.

I was slim when I developed it, and wasn't overtly masculinized, though
I did have some hair thinning in a male pattern.

Susan

Vicki, crookedness of the ring finger (in palmistry) is said to indicate a
stubborn streak :-)  Of course when "I" have it, I call it "strength of
character"   LOL!

Both hands, my index finger is shorter than the ring finger.  I, too, have played piano and
organ all my life, and have a long reach/span that with practice I could probably still do
today, even after RA since I was 22 y/o.

I always had lots of hair (premenopausal) until bouts of hypothyroidism when balancing my
thyroid levels; I have had three nodules since discovery in 1975.  It is hard to judge what all
has been causing the thinning of my hair, but there does seem to be akin to male pattern
baldness.  I'll have to keep a close eye on it as it regrows after this last bout of
hypothyroidism ( seriously low this time regardless of my synthroid)

I have had ovarian cysts, and had to have a large chocolate cyst removed when I was 18.  Because
of a similar side pain, I've thought many times that I have had other ones, including more
recently, too.  I have always thought some of my features leaned toward a more masculine side,
though I am a very feminine person; the masculine was not that much in excess.  Funny, I always
thought the hair on my arms was because of the way my daddy was so hairy.

I also developed a heart problem in my youth.

That's it after all the paragraphs beginning in "I"......... :)

Billie in AR