All PCOS ladies out there

Hi I got told ten years ago, I have had 4 pregnancies and have 3 children, getting pregnant is not impossible. (note I lost 7 or more pounds the month I got pregnant. Which of course then halted diet attempts.)

If your not attempting to got pregnant and want to lose weight, the first thing I was given was spirolactone it reduces water levels which we are disadvantaged to. Also my gyni said watch my sugar levels be cause my insulin turns to testosterone. (excess hair) So having the doc and gyni check me out first was important. I have lost 4 stone (56lb over the last 4 years (got pregnant in between)

Does this help you any.

I was diagnosed with PCOS in 2010. I've always had irregular menstrual cycles since I was a teenager so I didn't really think much about it when I wouldn't get my period for 2-3 months. But in 2010, I ballooned up to 160lbs (I'm only a bit under 5'2'') and I didn't get my period for 6 months+. I went to the doctor for a check up and they found two things: One, I had two lumps in my right breast and two, my right ovary 'didn't look right'. After several blood test and scan, scan, scan, and a surgery to take the lumps out, doctor confirmed that I have PCOS and that I would have a lot of difficulty conceiving. She said 3% but even that was optimistic. I never really thought about having children so while the news shocked me, I wasn't 'that' upset. I was upset by the fact that I have no say in it and I don't have a choice whether to have kids or not, I was just told it wasn't my choice.

Before the doctor put me on meds, she wanted me to lose weight first and go from there. So I did. Started in Dec 31 2010, I started working out and logging and being quite active on MFP. I worked out really hard and ate very sensibly. I didn't cut out any food, I just ate less and ate as clean as I could with a treat meal once a week. By June 2011, I've lost 25lbs. Doesn't sound like a lot but with my height, it looked like a lot. I was getting my menstrual cycle back on track and I felt amazing.

I started to have trouble losing weight by end of June and was craving a lot of food that I don't normally go for. Never once did I ever think I could be pregnant. Mid July just on a whim I bought the cheapest pregnancy test in the store and after 2 positives, I still didn't believe it. I then bought the most expensive pregnancy test, you know, the one that actually says, 'pregnant/not pregnant' so I don't need to decipher the stupid lines...and there it was, pregnant.

I gave birth 5 months old to a baby girl and I'm still in shock. I'm now back on MFP to get my weight back down and it's definitely harder this time around. I know she is a miracle to me and my husband and even though I never really thought about having kids, she makes me smile and love like I've never done before.

I owe all of goodness to MFP, Jillian Michaels and my husband.

Congrats on Bubs and your weight loss.

Thank you!

I've been on metformin for a couple months now, and am finding it's working with my PCOS. I've lost 13.4 lbs so far (been at it for just over a month) and I'm more motivated now than I've ever been. The metformin does upset my tummy sometimes, but if I make sure I take it with food it's okay. I've noticed that I've had to cut out dairy all of a sudden, so I don't know if that's the metformin or just hormones going out of whack (I'm almost 39 and am also on medication to induce menopause because I had PCOS, endometriosis, and fibrocystic breasts, so my hormones are out of control!!). I'd love to add you all as friends, but you're only allowed 5 friend requests every 10 minutes or something, so if anyone wants to add me, I'd love to help encourage you!

I've also noticed with my metformin that it upsets my stomach... and as long as i take it with food, and don't eat dairy, i'm okay as well.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to eliminate dairy all of a sudden! Let's just keep on keepin' on!

Hi I have 2 kids and was diagnosed with PCOS four years ago I'm having trouble losing weight it seems to be harder since my diagnosis women can get pregnant with pcos. I'm Living proof. With weight gain with pcos I haven't been able to get pregnant. I'm hoping if I lose weight I will become more fertile so I can. Have another baby. With pcos Woman who lose weight get pregnant easier In some cases. Good luck to all women with pcos.

One doctor told me that for women with PCOS we have to work twice as hard as what a normal person would have to do to lose the weight. Not sure how much truth there is to that, but I believe it.

I was told this too! DO NOT BELIEVE IT!!! I have lost 65# since January. I believed it for about 5 years and kept telling myself that weight loss didn't matter because it would be so hard. Don't let that discourage you!! If you want it bad enough, it will happen!! :flowerforyou:

I have been told the same

I was diagnosed with PCOS about 3 years ago, but my symptoms were not severe. At that time, I was severely overweight at my highest weight of 163 lbs. on a 4'11" frame. My husband and I were TTC and were having difficulty due to my irregular periods as a result of my tremendous weight gain over the course of 1 year (I had healthy, regular periods before that). My doctor ran some tests and determined that I also had PCOS, most likely brought on by weight gain. For those of you who said it's genetic, I'm not so sure because no one in my family has ever had it nor had any problems with conceiving or experienced difficulties with their pregnancies. I attributed my PCOS to my depression and stress that led to fluctuations of rapid weight loss and weight gain during my college years. My periods only became irregular after I had graduated college, so I'm certain that it was during all those years of hormonal irregularities and fluctuations that caused me to develop PCOS. However, being that my symptoms were minimal, with a controlled carb insulin resistance meal plan prescribed by my doctor and nutritionist -- no medicine whatsoever -- I was able to lose 30 lbs. during that time period without any exercise..I did just the meal plan alone and able to conceive and have a healthy pregnancy 1 year after my PCOS diagnosis.

I have since gained back some weight, but working on losing it again. I've read that PCOS is reversible. I don't want my PCOS symptoms to return thus one reason I am working so hard to lose weight again. Also, we are TCC again. I will not let PCOS make me wait another 3 years to conceive just because I am overweight.

I can't even remember when it was that I was diagnosed with PCOS, but since having it, I know about as much about it as does my doctor :-P

I've read everything you can imagine, asking several doctors tons of questions as well as my grandma and good friend who are nurses.

So let me start by saying I have read each story here, and my heart goes out to each of you. PCOS is HARD.

It makes us have the eternal hormones of a 15 year old girl, it makes us embarrassed to have people get to close for fear they will see our unwanted facial hair, and it makes it hard for us to lose weight and feel 'right.'

I do want to say that PCOS is not brought on by being overweight. Some doctors aren't well informed about PCOS as it is relatively new. Some women with PCOS are not and have never been overweight. It being 'genetic' doesn't mean that its passed in the family line (that's hereditary), it means that its just in you, and there is nothing that you did to prompt it. And unfortunately, PCOS isn't something that you can 'get cured of.' The symptoms can get better with proper care, but its always there.

So here's my boring little story:

My weight has fluctuated up and down since about 18 (always on the heavy side though), and when my (ex) husband and i wanted to have a baby, I was determined to lose weight. I had zero sugar and was very conscious of everything that I'd put into my body. i lost about 20# pretty quickly, and took Metformin, Prometrium and the lowest dose of Clomid. The Dr. told me not to expect to get pregnant the first go around because it was the lowest dosage, and was just getting my body ready to take the real dosage. Well I took a HPT before calling the doctor for a new RX of Clomid (as instructed) and didn't even look at it.. just went and called because I knew what the outcome was. But as the nurse answered the phone, I told her that I needed my RX called into the pharmacy, and she confirmed with me that I took an HPT, and I looked down at it, and saw a faint little + sign. She was as baffled as I was and was super excited for me (it was a small community and the nurses were friends to all the patients there). This is when we learned how well I responded to medicine. For the next month, I treated my body as a temple, and even though I was getting crazy morning sickness, I only ate good healthy foods. Unfortunately I miscarried at that point. It was a very rough and traumatic miscarriage that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, but since then, I've never taken clomid again.
That doctor has told me that I have the worse case of PCOS that he's ever seen (and he only deals with PCOS patients).I've been sexually active for about 10 years now, and have never used any kind of condoms or BCP, so... yea... He (along with other doctors) have said that I will never ovulate on my own, even when I have a period on my own. I know several people, even some much larger than me, that have PCOS but have conceived without clomid or shots, but I truely believe it will never happen for me without Clomid.

I have it. My periods were always irregular ever since I started. Then all of the sudden I started gaining weight rapidly. I went to the doctor and they somehow missed it all. Then a few years later a specialist confirmed I have it and that it really messed with my metabolism. Go figure. They gave me metformin and I took it for a little while, but stopped. I hate taking pills so now I'm on birth control to regulate and that's it. I was told once I start trying to have children I might need help (or may not be able to have any) though I won't know until I actually am ready to try, which is not right now.